Contest

Have you seen the Microsoft KIN commercials where a girl named Rosa travels around the country to visit her social network in person? Well, now you can have that same opportunity too. On the Facebook page for KIN, anyone who “likes” (aka “fans”) the page will be automatically entered in a new…

The Bing Team has posted all the photos from the student-only Earth Day Photo Contest where the winning entry gets featured on the Bing.com homepage. After receiving 17,000 photos (whew!), they’ve narrowed the group down to 12 finalists. The photo subjects include frogs, oceans, landscapes, trees…

Interested in the new HTC HD2 smartphone? The phone, available in the U.S. on the T-Mobile network, now has its own Facebook page where you have a chance to win one for yourself. Fans who answer the question “what would you do with more screen?” (referring to the large screen on the new device) are…

Bing is kicking off another photo contest where the winner gets to decorate the Bing.com homepage with their winning image. This time around, though, the contest is limited to students only. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the winning photo will grace the homepage on April 22nd…

Due to the great response of the first Bing Homepage Photo Contest, the Bing Search Team has announced they’re doing it again – this time with the theme of “hometown pride.” According to a recent blog post, Kristin Meldahl from Bing revealed that the first contest had over 10,000 entries and over…

Not up for fighting the crowds this holiday season? I feel your pain. If you’d rather do your shopping from the comfort and quiet of your own home, there are a number of sites that can serve you well…and a lot of them are participating merchants on Bing Cashback, the site that pays you back for…

To celebrate the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band, the new game that brings the group’s music to a standalone edition of the popular Rock Band franchise, Microsoft is putting up a special edition Xbox 360 console up for auction. The case for this Xbox is covered with beautiful hand-painted…

Now that the Bing Photo Contest is over, we get to see the winning picture. Jeremy J Somers of Australia won with the photo pictured here – a dramatic shot of lightning above a city skyline. The photo will appear as the background image on Bing.com on August 3rd where it will remain up all day just…

There are currently two contests promoting the new Bing “decision engine” going on right now. The first one, the Bing Home Page Photo Contest, is in its final stages. This contest allowed photographers to submit their photos to become the main homepage photo featured on Bing.com. There were a ton…

If you’re a developer here in the U.S., there’s a new contest going on now called “Will Code for Green” that’s designed to promote the launch of the new Bing API. Developers are being encouraged to build useful web applications that take advantage of the API’s capabilities in one of two…