The Buyers’ Guide Bloggers Contest – Winners Announced

The Winner’s Box

Grand Prize: Jim K. of moorewatch.com (most referrals)
1st Prize: Sophy Wang of sophywt.blogchina.com
2nd Prize: Andrew Buonocore of alifeonthenet.com

By now, you’ve seen our Buyers’ Guide 2005 and the excellent contest winners it produced. Today we’re happy to announce a brand new contest for the Buyers’ Guide: the Bloggers Contest.

iLounge is a strong supporter of emerging technologies, and has used its Buyers’ Guide and Free Music sections to spotlight responsible uses of peer-to-peer networks and independent web site downloads. Now we’re hoping to spolight another Internet innovation: the blog.

The rules for this contest are very simple. We’ll publicize and award prizes to three blogs that spread the word about the new Buyers’ Guide. Our grand prize winner will be picked on straight numbers: the blog with the most referrals to our Buyers’ Guide 2005 page will win a pair of Shure E5c Earphones (valued at $500). We will also select two second place winners randomly from the pool of all blogs with 25 or more unique referrals, so virtually anyone has a chance to win.

Each of these second place winners will get one set of Etymotic 6i Isolator Earphones (valued at $149). All of these prizes were graciously donated by EarphoneSolutions.com.

All you need to do is insert one of these badges onto your blog’s page – with the code that lets us properly count your referrals. We’ll count and make our selections a month from now, as per the official rules below. And don’t cheat by repeatedly clicking (or telling your readers to repeatedly click) through to the referral page – we reserve the right to automatically disqualify any entry for multiple click-throughs.

Step One: Choose your badge

Step Two: Please email us with a link to the page displaying the badge.

We’ll check only one other thing before awarding prizes: whether one of the badges above is on your page. If it is, and you’ve been selected, you win. Where you place the badge on your site is up to you, but obviously, you’ll have a better chance if you use a more noticeable badge (or two) someplace obvious on your site.

List of Some of the Top Participating Blogs:

iTalk.it
BSODmike
Gocyclones
Enjoilax
Ceyhan
JimHWilliams
MacCompanion
Artificial-Adagio
MDehart
Kekone
Ketsugi
BDArules
Rminnis
Blazehome
Grubesteak
Svenrox
Mundyde
Toolbox
Ducttapepimp
CRvets for Truth
Isujay
BSODmike
Neurotic Fishbowl
Sixapart
Moorewatch
Ketsugi
MacCompanion
BDARules
Xanga
Leaving Apple

Official Rules

• No purchase is necessary to enter.
• The Buyers’ Guide Bloggers Contest will begin as of this posting.
• Deadline for entry is May 6, 2005 at 11:59pm PT.
• All submissions become the property (intellectual and otherwise) of iLounge.
• A total of one prize will be awarded per winning blog, with three total prizes to be awarded overall.

  No substitutions are permitted.

• iLounge reserves the right to automatically void blog entries in the event of suspected fraud. Repeated click-throughs from duplicate or similar IP addresses may result in voiding of entry.
• iLounge can only count referrals connected to IP addresses. Individuals using personal firewalls may not be counted for purposes of this contest. If you are concerned about the impact of firewalls on your total referral count, please inform your readers to temporarily disable their firewalls when accessing the Buyers’ Guide pages.
• This giveaway is open to U.S. and international residents.
• Must be 18 years or older to enter.
• Void where prohibited.
• iLounge is not responsible for computer malfunctions, bugs or viruses, or any problems beyond our control. iLounge has the right to terminate this contest at any given time without notice.
• All information submitted becomes the property of iLounge.