We don’t get out of the office much these days, but we’re pretty sure that the holiday season is upon us. (It is,
right?) So in the spirit of giving a little something back to all of our readers who have been so supportive of us
these past 286 days, we’re going to be giving away gadgets every day this week. We’ll have details about the first
giveaway later today, so you make sure you check back a little later!
So like we said, we’re going to be mixing things up today with the contest to a free MP3 player and/or audio book
courtesy of Audible in the last day of our giveaway this week. Here’s the deal: somewhere in our archives is a old post
with a special code-word that we’ve inserted into it, be the first person to email the URL to us (use our
contact form) and you’ll win a free Creative 128MB MuVo MP3
player and a audio book from Audible. Be the second person to find that URL and you’ll win a free audio book from
Audible. The code-word you’re looking for is “tangential”, but lest you think you can just use our search function (or
Google) to automatically find the code-word, we’re going to put the word in a GIF, so it won’t be searchable through
normal means. If no one is able to find the URL within the next few hours, we’ll post some clues to help you out. Get
cracking!
UPDATE: We have some winners! Congrats to Chris, who wins the MP3 player and audio book, and Clara,
who won the 2nd place prize of an audio book. Thanks to everyone for participating in our giveaways this week, we’ll be
giving away some even bigger prizes very soon.
P.S. - In case you were wondering, the post you were looking for was
here.
So Engadget’s been nominated for Best Tech Blog in the
2004 Weblog Awards, and if you dig what we’ve been doing here for the past nine months (today’s actually our nine
month anniversary!), we’d super appreciate getting your vote. Polls close on December 12th and you can actually vote
once a day until then. Thanks!
There’s a new sheriff in town. Well, maybe not a new sheriff exactly, but please join us in welcoming another
addition to the Weblogs Inc. family, Luxist.com, a brand new site which’ll be laying down the law about everything
related to high-end luxury goods.
Be on the lookout for another contest post to go up sometime later today (as in Tuesday) for your second chance to
win an Creative MuVo 128MB MP3 player and/or an audio book courtesy of Audible.
Here’s the deal:
They’ve offered us five of Creative’s 128MB MuVo MP3 players and coupons for 10 Audible audio books to give away to
our readers, so here’s what we’re going to do: At a random time every day this week (could be the early morning, could
be late in the evening, could be whenever, but we will definitely be mixing it up) we’ll put up a contest post with a
special code-word in it. Be the first person to post up a comment with that specific code-word in it and you’ll win one
of the Creative MuVo MP3 players and a coupon for an Audible audio book. Be the second person and you’ll score a nifty
consolation prize of a coupon for a free Audible audio book.
P.S. - Remember that we do require email authentication for comments, so make sure you authenticate
your comment if you want to win. Also, we’ll be disqualifying anyone who uses scripts to automatically post comments to
the site. Oh, the contest is restricted to residents of the United States. Sorry everywhere else!
It’s Thursday, which means it’s Day Four of our weeklong giveaway of MP3 players and audio books from Audible. We’re
gonna try and mix things up tomorrow (since it’ll be the end of the week), but for today we’ll stick to our
tried-and-true giveaway formula. Here’s the deal: At some random time later today (as in Thursday) we’ll put up a
contest post with a special code-word in it. Be the first person to post up a comment with that specific code-word in
it and you’ll win Creative’s 128MB MuVo MP3 player and a coupon for an Audible audio book. Be the second person to post
up a comment with that specific code-word in it and you’ll score a nifty consolation prize of a coupon for a free
Audible audio book.
P.S. - Remember that we do require email authentication for comments, so make sure you authenticate
your comment if you want to win. Also, we’ll be disqualifying anyone who uses scripts to automatically post comments to
the site (though that’s why we have the code-word dealy in the first place). Oh, and for various reasons the contest is
restricted to residents of the United States. Sorry everywhere else!
It’s Friday, which means it’s the last day of our weeklong giveaway of Creative’s 128MB MuVo MP3 players and audio
books from Audible. Today we’re going to do things differently. Instead of having you compete to be the first to post a
comment, we’re going to have a little Engadget scavenger hunt. Sometime around 1pm EST we’ll be putting up another post
detailing exactly what you need to do to win, but suffice it to say, it won’t just be a matter of being the fastest to
hit refresh.
P.S. - Remember that we do require email authentication for comments, so make sure you authenticate
your comment if you want to win. Also, we’ll be disqualifying anyone who uses scripts to automatically post comments to
the site (though that’s why we have the code-word dealy in the first place). Oh, and if you already won a prize for
this contest, you can’t win again. Give some other people a shot! Last thing: for various reasons the contest is
restricted to residents of the United States. Sorry everywhere else!
We’re welcoming another new blog into the Weblogs Inc family today,
Gadling.com, our new adventure travel site. Check it out!
Oh, while we have your attention, we wanted to mention that if you’re a My Yahoo user you can automatically add
Engadget to your page simply by clicking the button at right. You’ll feel better afterwards, we promise.
Since we’ve been getting at least two or three emails a day asking about this ever since we launched back
in March, we should probably point out that we’ve finally added search to the site. Yes, we know it’s long overdue, but
trust us, no one is happier about this than us. Anyway, the search box is over in the right-hand column, just below the
text messages. It’s still technically in beta or whatever, so you might notice a few bugs here and there, but at least
now you’ll be able to search through our archives to your heart’s content.