Less Talk, More Do Christopher Finke is a software engineer. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs.

Posts tagged with 'Contest'

TwitterBar is a winner!

Monday, December 14th, 2009

(And so are you, for using it!)

It was announced today that TwitterBar is one of the ten winners of the Mozilla Mobile Add-on Challenge:

"After reviewing a multitude of submissions and much debate around many worthy contenders, the judges from the AMO and Mobile teams have chosen ten (10) of the “best” (innovative, useful, compatible) Firefox mobile add-ons. We’re very pleased to announce our winners (and thrilled to start using their add-ons soon) and award them each with a brand new Nokia N900."

I was really pleased with how the mobile version of TwitterBar turned out; I slimmed down the interface (which was already pretty slim), and I found a great Twitter bird icon that I modified to allow TwitterBar to have its own branding separate from Twitter:

I'm planning on eventually using this same icon in the Firefox version of TwitterBar too so that there's consistent branding across the Mobile, Firefox, and Chrome versions of TwitterBar. What do you think?

Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: iLost

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Congratulations to Sean, Ricardo, and Jeff, the winners of Mahalo's iPhone Contest. I knew as soon as I read it that Sean's Time Travel SERP was going to be tough competition.

The waiting is the hardest part

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Looks like I'm not the only one interested in finding out the results of the Mahalo.com iPhone contest: the top Mahalo search term today is "iPhone Contest Entries."

Top Mahalo Searches

Seriously, when are the winners going to be -- wait, Sexsomnia??

Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Betta Splendens

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Here is my seventh and final entry for the Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Betta Splendens (aka Siamese Fighting Fish).

To recap, here are all of my entries for the Mahalo.com iPhone Contest:

Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: OPML

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Here is my sixth entry for the Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: OPML.

I am really gaining an appreciation for the work that Mahalo Guides do.

Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Mall of America

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Here is my fifth entry for the Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Mall of America.

I've probably been to the MOA more times (a dozen maybe? could be more) than any Mahalo guide, so this was a natural fit for me.

Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Futurama

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Here is my fourth entry for the Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Futurama.

I couldn't believe that this page hasn't been done yet.

Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: NewsRadio

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Here is my third entry for the Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: NewsRadio.

When contests allow you to enter as many times as you want, I usually take that as a challenge. When I was 14, I filled out over 100 entry forms just to win a 12-pack of Coke and a pizza at the Rock County Fair because there was no rule prohibiting multiple entries. (And I won. Victory never tastes as good as when it comes with 144 ounces of soda.) After that, they changed the rules to "one entry per person" (also known as the "Finke provision.")

Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Prime Minister Thatcher

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Here is my second entry for the Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Prime Minister Thatcher.

To those who might say that I've chosen this SERP in a lame attempt to appeal to the Mahalo staff's sensibilities, I say... maybe you're right.

Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Calvin and Hobbes

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Here is my entry for the Mahalo.com iPhone Contest: Calvin and Hobbes.

I chose the Calvin and Hobbes SERP for several reasons: it was always my favorite comic strip, so I knew a lot about it and had a good idea of what type of information to include; it completed its run before the Web was widespread, so much of the information about it online is either hard to find, incomplete, or missing; and most of all, it's an interesting and entertaining subject.