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Earlier this month, SezWho announced that they have been acquired by JS-Kit. I have previously written a post praising SezWho for the great work that they’ve been doing. I must admit that since then SezWho has been dropping the ball on development, allowing other competitors like Disqus and Intense Debate to shine. Nevertheless, I am quite sad to see them get devoured and rebranded into JS-Kit because they had such great potential.
What to do now?
Before JS-Kit supplied a clear upgrade path from SezWho, I’ve experimented with Disqus and Intense Debate. They both have comparable features, but here are a few different things that make me prefer each service over the other:
Here are the winners from the previous $600+ Give Away Contest.
First Place Winner
- Frederick Ding wins a custom banner design from buytemplates.net.
Second Place Winners
- BFG 9000 wins a 125×125 do-follow ad spot on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days.
- Ajay wins a 125×125 do-follow ad spot on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days.
Third Place Winners
- Kathy wins a do-follow blogroll link on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days.
- Mek wins a do-follow blogroll link on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days.
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I think Twitter goes hand in hand with professional blogging. There are many creative ways to harness the power of Twitter. Personally, I use Twitter to keep in touch with all of my readers (P.S. if I’m not following you yet, please tweet @madeinthayaland and tell me that you are one of my readers!). That said, I spend a lot of time on Twitter.com and there are many things that I wish it had.
Recently my good friend Artem Russakovskii wrote an awesomely massive post introducing me to some very slick Twitter hacks.
Read on…
This contest has ended! Thank you everybody for participating! Here are the winners.
I am excited to announce that I am running my first blog contest on OMNINOGGIN. Without further ado, let’s get to it!
Prizes
- One 1st place winner will get one custom banner design from buytemplates.net ($149 value)
- Two 2nd place winners will each get one 125×125 do-follow ad spot on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days ($30 total value)
- Two 3rd place winners will each get a do-follow blogroll link on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days ($20 total value)
- Every contestant will get a 185 icons pack at the end of the contest from icongalore.com ($134 value)
- Every contestant will get 10 premium exclusive templates immediate after subscribing to the buytemplates.net newsletter ($290 value)
How to enter
Here are the things you need to do to participate in this contest:
- Subscribe to the buytemplates.net newsletter.
- Subscribe to the OMNINOGGIN RSS feed.
- Open the OMNINOGGIN RSS feed it in your feed reader, scroll down to the footer section of this post, and write down the special code for this contest (it should be highlighted in burgundy)
- Comment on this post saying that you have subscribed to the buytemplates.net newsletter, subscribed to the OMNINOGGIN RSS feed, and make sure to include the special code for this contest.
This will earn you 1 entry into this contest!
Increase your chance of winning
After performing the above required steps to enter, you can increase your chance of winning by doing any of the following.
- Stumble this post (+1 entry): Make sure you include your StumbleUpon user name along with the entry comment above.
- Digg this post (+1 entry): Make sure you include your Digg user name along with the entry comment.
- Vote this post up on Reddit (+1 entry): Make sure you include your Reddit user name along with entry comment.
- Twitter about the contest (+2 entries): Make sure you include @madeinthayaland into your tweet and include your Twitter user name with the entry comment.
- Blog about the contest (+3 entries): Make sure include the URL of your blog post in the entry comment.
When does the contest end?
This contest has ended! Thank you everybody for participating! Here are the winners.
This is a 2-weeks long contest. It begins 3/9/2009 12:00AM PST (-800 GMT) and ends 3/23/2009 11:59PM PST (-800 GMT).
Sponsor
This contest is sponsored by Website Templates from buytemplates.net. Buytemplates.net is a one stop shop for all your website requirements. They offer the following products and services:
- Professional pre-designed website templates
- Template customization
- Custom template creation (custom web design)
- SEO/SEM services
- Website Maintenance Services
You can download hundreds of templates with a small membership fee. Their membership fee starts as low as $49 for budget, $69 for standard, and $99 for premium plans. You don’t have to hire a web designer or external web design studio and pay enormously to design a single web template.
