phew, I have managed to get back to the pc after a little while away and just in time (well, close) to announce the winners of the PacktPub contest.

All someone had to do was visit the PacktPub website and choose a book they want to win, link to it in the comments and post about the contest on their site.

First winner is Dominique Goh from http://www.dominiquegoh.com/ who wins a WordPress Theme Design book by Tessa Blakeley Silver

Second winner is Kelly from http://www.myqute.com who wins the WordPress for Business bloggers book.

well done you two! I’ll send your email addresses to packtpub tomorrow (just time for you to change your mind about which book if you email me quickly) and they will send you your books as a PDF attachment soon after.

The great CommentLuv contest is going well, 67 people have registered their sites to take part so far! I had to rewrite the contest page at commentluv so it doesn’t load them all until the user presses a button.

There are an ever increasing amount of comments being made every day, amazing to think it’s only been live for 4 days now!

3 people have won (1 person won twice!) already and there are going to be at least another 10 prizes to go out before 22nd Nov

I want to see if the contest page or a new one showing the current prize can attract some prize sponsors.. I put a link to buy any of the gadgets that I stock in my ebay store under each prize in the prize list and they are getting some pretty good clicks. I’ve sold more than the usual amount of memory cards in the past week and I’m sure it’s the contest doing it.

My idea is to code a widget that shows the current prize and who has donated it that can be displayed on the commentluv blogs that want to be part of the contest. I link it to a page on CommentLuv.com for the prize details including links to purchase the product at the sponsors site.

Given enough time for the contest to run, it could generate some good traffic and maybe more sales…

Maybe I can convince one of my suppliers to go with the idea and make a really good prize donation like an Asus eee PC or other fancy electronic gadget?

What do you think? I’d love to hear your opinion

The Contest did start and after my host managed to kill a nasty process eating thingy on the server, we have our first winner!

Witchypoo not content with winning the sneaky quick contest has continued rampaging through the contest blogs and leaving great comments, she ends up back here and wins again!

Look how the win appears in the comment.

The next prize will be available tomorrow but don’t rest your keyboard yet! the more comments you make on the day before the prize is available then the more chance you have of winning!

claim instructions are sent by the system to the email address registered at commentluv.com so now is a good time to make sure that you can receive emails from commentluv.com. You can do a lost password routine and not click the link sent to you to make sure you can receive emails from my server.

I see a lot of bounces come back from peoples mail boxes saying that it’s full, if the claim email doesn’t get through to you then you can’t claim. Check it today!

A huge thanks to all those that voted for CommentLuv in the WPMU plugin contest. CommentLuv won the peoples choice awards!
US$250 from the team at Bloglo.co.il
US$100 fromTrent Adams
WPMU DEV Premium yearly account

In the spirit of the way CommentLuv gives something back to the blogs community members, I have decided to use most of the cash prize money as the fund for a great CommentLuv giveaway!

The particulars are still being arranged while I collect the money from the prize donors and set up some code and pages to administrate the contest. This should be around the beginning of next week…

the best bit is, to be in with a chance to win you just need to be a CommentLuv.com member and make comments on CommentLuv enabled blogs (latest version 2.5.4). A random comment will get a prize winning notification URL instead of their last blog post and as long as that comment is published with the link then BOTH the owner of the blog AND the comment author win a spot prize of real cash money!!

rules and yadayada will be published near the time the contest will start..

thanks again for voting for CommentLuv. It had nearly 50% of the total vote at the end! awesome.

Congratulations to Yan from thoushallblog.com for winning the 100$ contest for the beta testers!!

He qualified by being a beta tester who provided feedback on the new version when it came out and leaving a comment on the contest post. He was allocated some numbers and if one of them matched the bonus number drawn on the UK lottery today he would get the prize.

here’s his comment allocation

Congratulations Yan, your allocated number 2 came up as the bonus number and you win the 100$.

Let me know you know on this post and I’ll wing your money off to you!

and the results of the national lottery

More contests on the way!

Stay tuned for more contests to do with commentluv where just being a registered member and commenting on an ACL blog could win you a prize.

There is a winner for the iPod portable speakers! I decided to let the Euromillions results decide on who would win by putting a number between 3 and 17 on each entry on this post and whoever matches the total of the two lucky stars will win (lucky stars are between 1 and 9 with no two numbers the same). If there aren’t enough entrants to cover all 15 possible numbers and the two lucky stars add up to a number higher then the winner will be decided by the lowest number that is between 3 and the last number assigned.

That winner is Maggies Musings who was assigned the number 4 which happens to be the only number that was within the range! how convenient! You need to notify me on this post or email at the address I used to comment on your blog before Tuesday to claim your prize or it goes to the next person that matches their number to the bonus on Wednesdays’ lotto draw….

Congratulations Maggie, I’ll come over and post a message to let you know…

The Wednesday lotto results are in and can you believe it? the bonus number was 49 . OMG. that’s the only number that wasn’t allocated to anyone ! HAh! such good drama I mean, what are the chances of that happening??? (well, 1 in 49 actually but it feels like a million to one chance to me!)

As per the rules, if the bonus number happens to be number 49 the the winner will be whoever matches the first drawn number.

Congratulations Footie Blog

You win the headphones from Vmoda. I’ll post a message on your blog to remind you to contact me for your prize. Please leave your choice of colour on this message and email me your name and address so I can get your prize out to you! Choose colour 1,2,3 or 4 from the picture below (1 is at the top)

Well, that was exciting! I really fancy doing some more contests, I may want to have a monthly competition that involves people who comment on this blog, once my next version of CommentLuv is finished, I’ll see if I can put some code together so that commenters get automatically allocated a unique number on each (approved) comment and then have a raffle at the end of the month..

what do you think?….

oh and thanks to everyone for taking part, it was nice to see so many people make an effort with their posts and being so generous with their blog real estate. Keep watching this space for more contests!