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MySEOCommunity.com Kicks off Guest Blogging Contest. Enter and Win SEO … – PR Web (press release)
Feb 6th
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MySEOCommunity.com Kicks off Guest Blogging Contest. Enter and Win SEO …
PR Web (press release) Gerald Weber, a noted search professional and online entrepreneur, launches “The Mad SEO Scientist Guest Blogging Contest” to celebrate the launch of his new biz – MySEOCommunity.com. Driven by an ambitious goal to raise quality of Web content, … |
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Online SEO Idol Contest Winner Rakes In Over 100 Million IDR – Daily Markets (press release)
Jan 23rd
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Online SEO Idol Contest Winner Rakes In Over 100 Million IDR
Daily Markets (press release) With Google.com accounting for over 45% of global internet users, according to the latest Alexa.com statistics, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialists and experienced affiliate marketers have become vital to any organic online marketing strategy, … |
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Fifth Annual Doodle 4 Google Contest Kicks Off
Jan 21st
Children in grades K-12 in the U.S. are invited to enter the fifth annual Google’s Doodle 4 Google contest. The theme for this year’s contest is “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…” and this year Google will name a winner from every state.
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Google’s 5th “Doodle 4 Google” Contest Opens For K-12 Students
Jan 18th
Google has launched its fifth annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest, and this year’s version appears to be bigger than ever and easier to enter. This year’s contest theme is “If I could travel in time, I’d visit…”. Students in grades K-12 have until March 20th…
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Are You A Search Geek? Test Your Mettle with this Contest – and Win Two Tickets to SMX West!
Dec 19th
Looking for some relief from the craziness of the holiday season? Why not test your search marketing intelligence, by taking the 4th Annual SMX Biggest Search Geek Contest sponsored by Marin Software. You could just win a trip for two to SMX West in San Jose, Feb. 28- March 1, plus an Apple iPad2!…
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A New Kaggle Contest for Kinect
Dec 7th
In addition to the official Kinect Accelerator program we wrote about last month, data crowdsourcing contest site Kaggle today announced a new challenge around Kinect as well.
Kaggle hosts cash prize competitions for people to play with data and come up with various solutions. The contests are calls for hacks that jailbreak fundamental models professionals currently use to monitor finances, write code to analyze shopping behavior, improve space exploration, and a wide variety of other topics.
Their latest is the Gesture Recognition Challenge. It is organized by CHALEARN and is sponsored in part by Microsoft. The object of this contest is to produce an improved gesture algorithm that will analyze a series of Kinect video streams. Samples of actual Kinect video clips are supplied, similar to other Kaggle contests that are used to develop other algorithms.
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The winning team of data scientists will take home $10,000. Along with several others, they will have an opportunity for Microsoft to license the winning solutions from a pool of $200,000 for this purpose. The contest starts today and ends April 10.
Judges are done algorithmically, like other Kaggle contests, by calculating and comparing the actual and predicted outcomes. You don’t need to use any particular tool to enter, either.
Unlike most Kaggle contests, with this one the potential entrants are working towards improving a device that is used by millions of people, but in a different context. The idea is to push the boundaries and see how well new algorithms can be built to identify more subtle gestures.
Many of the popular Kaggle competitions have 800 entries, according to the company.
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Appirio Makes Salesforce Chatter + Twitter Integration into a Contest
Nov 30th
To a rapidly increasing degree, Salesforce Chatter is becoming the communications platform for essentially all classes of business, in both the public and private sectors. There was a time when Salesforce tools were considered to be leveraged against Twitter and Facebook as social platforms, but for certain segments of the user base, that leverage is reversing itself.
Now the mobile application framework provider Appirio, which ReadWriteWeb introduced to you last June, is opening up a kind of persistent contest for the open source community, with a channel for distributing a new class of tools that would effectively leverage these consumer social tools on Salesforce’s business social tool.
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Today at the Cloudforce conference in New York City, Appirio is launching a Social Enterprise Toolkit built with its mobile apps framework. It serves as a kind of gathering place for members of the Cloudspokes development community to present tools, also made with the framework, for spreading the reach of Chatter further to mobile devices. Some examples include simple tools letting users cross-post Chatter messages to Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and Twitter by way of hashtags.
“Today, SharePoint doesn’t compare very well to Facebook as a collaboration platform,” states Narinder Singh, Appirio’s chief strategy officer, in an interview with RWW. “Facebook is everywhere; it’s connected to everything that you do, it brings in information from a ton of different places. So we really thought there was a play for the ecosystem to create innovations that connected to Salesforce’s Chatter, Google+, and other collaborative enterprise social platforms in a way that makes them much more valuable.”
Singh believes that rather than producing a comprehensive, pre-configured environment for integrating the separate messaging queues, companies would benefit from exercising its options to develop its own – to borrow Singh’s term – “social enterprise blueprint.”
“Some organizations are very collaborative; others are very structured,” remarks Singh. “We want to provide a plan for how they can take advantage of things like Chatter. Then when it comes time to execute on that plan, the Social Enterprise Toolkit [provides] a dozen-plus apps that are relevant to different dynamics… One of the problems you don’t want users to have to deal with is to repost information, or to figure out where they should put certain data. The first thing we did with the Social Enterprise Toolkit was connect it to multiple public social networks, because we felt people were wanting to be able to interact in a seamless way.”
From either Chatter or any of the four major social services, when you create a post in one service with a certain hashtag recognized by the Toolkit component, it will automatically be distributed to the other four. Or, for instance, a post that includes the #ch hashtag will be copied into Chatter.
Concepts posted by the community to the Toolkit distribution point will be entered into a contest, where other members will be invited to judge them for “uniqueness, creativity and practicality, and popularity,” according to the Toolkit’s home page. Prizes of $1,000 will be awarded to individuals who apply for the contest between now and December 2. The contest winner(s) will be announced on December 12 on Appirio’s corporate blog.
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November MacBook Air Contest and Poll: What Application(s) Make Up the Biggest Workload for Your Virtual Servers?
Nov 4th
What workloads are you running under virtualization, and what are you holding back?
That’s the question for ReadWriteCloud’s October contest. Virtualization providers like VMware and hardware partners like Intel say that almost all workloads are suitable for virtualization. What workloads are you running under virtualzation today, and what are you holding back? Do you have workloads you’re worried about moving to virtualization? If so – why?
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The prize? A light, sleek MacBook Air. All you need to do is submit the best comment right here on this post, and you’ll be taking home a MacBook Air! Participating is easy, you just need a Disqus account, and make sure you follow the rules.
We know ReadWriteCloud readers have been tackling virtualization projects for years. But lots of organizations have held back some of their workloads, and we’d like to know what, and why. We’re also encouraging readers to participate in our poll, but don’t delay – the poll and contest close on November 20th. But be sure to respond in the comments as well, to get a chance to win a sweet MacBook Air.
To win, you need to comment by end of day, November 20th. We’ll announce the winner shortly thereafter. You can’t win if you don’t respond, so fire up the keyboard and let us know what made your most successful virtualization project a winner. We’re eager to read your responses!
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MacBook Air Contest Winner and New Contest: Tell Us About Your Most Successful Virtualization Projects
Oct 10th
What were some of the most successful virtualization implementations, and what made them successful – other than cost savings?
That’s the question for ReadWriteCloud’s October contest. The prize? A light, sleek MacBook Air. All you need to do is submit the best comment right here on this post, and you’ll be taking home a MacBook Air – just like Julie Begey, who won the September contest. Participating is easy, you just need a Disqus account, and make sure you follow the rules.
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We know ReadWriteCloud readers have been tackling virtualization projects for years. Now you have a chance to cash in on that experience by telling us which implementations have been most successful, and why. We all know that cost is a huge factor, so go a bit deeper (as Begey did with her response in September) and tell us more.
To win, you need to comment by October 25th. We’ll announce the winner shortly thereafter. You can’t win if you don’t respond, so fire up the keyboard and let us know what made your most successful virtualization project a winner. We’re eager to read your responses!
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