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Virtualization.com Contest: Guess What’s on Werner Vogels’ Mind and Win A Book

July 31, 2008 by Toon Vanagt 2 Comments

Aside from interviewing Werner Vogels at the GigaOM Structure 08 conference, we asked him to dedicate an O’Reilly book on the Amazon Web Services, which we will give away in the contest we’re introducing today. First, watch the video below.


Win O’Reilly’s Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB

Second, follow these simple rules for our summer contest: up until the 15th of August, you can guess what Vogels has written in this book and provide your answer in the comments below. You don’t necessarily have to get it right, but the funniest, most original, most in-depth or closest comment on this post will be picked out by our editors on the 15th of August 2008. The lucky winner will get a free copy of O’Reilly’s Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB (Programming), with the hand-signed note from Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels inside!

If you are really creative, we throw in a second freeby, for the funniest fake job title. Get inspired by “Werner Vogels, System Admin at a Small Bookshop (aka CTO Amazon)”

Make your educated guess or just be funny and don’t forget to include your e-mail address (not shown) so we can contact you afterwards and get your book delivered.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, People Tagged With: Amazon, book, contest, ec2, FPS and SimpleDB, O'Reilly, Programming Amazon Web Services, Programming Amazon Web Services S3, SQS, virtualisation, virtualization, Werner Vogels

VMware Contest: Make A ‘Switch To Fusion’ Video and Win A MacBook Air

April 7, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

We’re not sure what to think of VMware Team Fusion’ latest contest. If you upload a one-minute video about your experience in switching to VMware Fusion in order to run Windows on your Mac, or you write a blog post about it, you can win a set of prizes ranging from t-shirts, bumper stickers and an iPod Touch to a MacBook Air.

MacBook Air

On itself, it’s just a nice, harmless marketing campaign to increase awareness about VMware Fusion on video sharing sites and gain extra backlinks for obvious reasons (might have something to do with the increasing pressure from competitors on VMware, aptly written out on bMighty). But we’d be surprised if tons of users go out of their way to create free marketing material for the company, even if the prizes (at least, the Apple products) are bound to spark interest here and there. It just seems it a bit too opportunistic, and they’re putting in an extra threshold by asking contestants to go through a bunch of instructions in a PDF file.

How about you, would you enter a contest to help VMware in getting more awareness for its desktop virtualization solutions?

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Apple, contest, MacBook Air, marketing, UGC, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, VMWare Fusion, VMware Fusion Video Contest

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