Five Free iPhone Unlocks from CrunchGear and WirelessImports
We just got off the phone with iPhone Unlock salespeople WirelessImports and we have five free unlocks for CrunchGear and TechCrunch readers. How can you win one? Enter our Steve Jobs look-alike contest. Take your - or a friend’s, loved one’s, or sig other’s - picture in a black turtleneck and jeans and send it to contest@crunchgear.com with the subject line “UNLOCK MY IPHONE.” Reality Distortion Field optional.
You have to have an iPhone to enter and presumably not like/not have Cingular service or be ready to buy one when we pick you. We’ll pick five entrants at random on Friday, September 14 at 12PM EDT. Visit CG for full details.
Filed under English | Comment (1)Get free BEST backlink from Adesblog.com
I got pimped by Asia’s influential problogger, Abdylas or better known as Ades in the blogosphere. Adesblog.com holds a Pagerank 7 by Google and is the only Asian blogger i know who has a rank that high. (anyone knows of any blogger with PR8 and above?)
Ades is giving back to the blog scene with weekly pimps. How can this link help you? In many ways. Not only will it drive traffic to your blog, it will also increase your pagerank in time to come. A week long of pimping might just do the work!
So how do you get to be on Ades’s Weekly Member Sites? Just join his MyBlogLog Community and you will be automatically included in the contest. Bloggers will be randomly picked and if lady luck is on your side, hey presto!
So head over to Adesblog, and find out more. Tell him Malique sent ‘ya. Go.
Filed under English | Comments (3)Play, Earn Points, Cash Out
GuessNow is a predictive marketplace where users can earn money for guessing the outcome of future events. GuessNow have thousands of questions on a wide variety of topics including Sports, People & Entertainment, U.S. & World News, and Business & Finance. When the event actually occurs, and the user has correctly guessed the outcome, the total points eligible at the time of answering the question will be awarded. At the end of every month, the points that a player has earned can be converted in to cash.
Filed under English | Comment (0)Changing lives with Yahoo! Hack Day
The Yahoo! Developer Network team has been busily preparing to host our first international Hack Day in London with the BBC this weekend — Open Hack Day Europe, with 500 hackers joining the festivities on the palatial (literally!) grounds of Alexandra Palace. We’ve got confirmed attendees from 18 countries, from Portugal to Liechtenstein (population: 33,987) to Romania.
For those unfamiliar with Yahoo! Hack Day, the “rules” are simple: Gather a bunch of developers in one place, build something in 24 hours, and demo your work in 2 minutes or less. Our first open Hack Day last September was a stunning success, capturing the hacker spirit I saw best expressed many months before, halfway around the world at Yahoo! Bangalore, at our first internal Hack Day there. Their posters were incredibly simple, but communicated the hacker ethic as purely as I’ve seen it — a Venn diagram with two interlocking circles labeled “dreamer” and “coder,” and at the intersection of the two, “hacker.”
I recently got an email from Mo Kakwan, one of the participants from our September event, with the subject “How Yahoo! Hack Day changed my life.” Anyone who was there will remember that Mo delivered what was probably the hit presentation of Hack Day, a demo that turned into a brilliant comic descent into the frenetic madness of trying to build something amazing in 24 hours. (You have to watch his presentation to get a sense of the magic of that moment — fortunately, someone shot video!) For Mo, Hack Day was a spark that made him start dreaming of bigger things. He wrote to me:
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Give your Photos the fun of Flickr
You may have recently seen the announcement that we’ll be closing Yahoo! Photos and focusing all our efforts on Yahoo’s photo sharing community, Flickr.
If you use Yahoo! Photos, fear not. We’re still committed to doing what is best for you, and by getting laser-focused on a single photo sharing service (Flickr), we’ll be able to give you even more of the great stuff 
you’ve come to expect from Yahoo!. Many of creative folks behind Yahoo! Photos are heading over to the Flickr team, giving us even more ammo for future innovation.
We’ve watched photography gradually change from a tool for simply recording life events (seen enough baby/wedding/graduation/vacation photos, anyone?) to a social tool for sharing and connecting with others. That’s why we believe it’s time to shift our focus towards Flickr.
We’re doing our best to make this transition as smooth and convenient as possible, and beginning today you will be able to move your albums and photos to Flickr. The next time you log in to Yahoo! Photos, you’ll see your options for moving your entire collection with just one click.
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