I know you all are desperately waiting for the results.
We thought it’d be easy to predict the top 5 winners. However, surprisingly, out of the 1073 entries we received, only one user could predict the exact order of the final medals tally at Beijing.
Today, we are glad to announce the only lucky winner of the Instablogs Beijing ‘08 Olympic Contest.
The winner of iPhone 3G is Justin from United States.
Many thanks to those who participated in the contest and Congratulations Justin.
We thank all participants for taking part in the contest so enthusiastically!
Starting today, we are pleased to inform everyone the opening of Instablogs Network to external blogs. We are calling it the Instablogs Club.
By opening, we mean that external blogs can now apply to become members of the Instablogs Club and enjoy the benefits that our network members have been enjoying since 2005.
Who may join the Club?
You should have a blog.
You should be passionate about it.
You should have compelling content.
You should be willing to share with other Club members.
What are the benefits in joining the Club?
We all need traffic. We will work to drive traffic to you. We currently enjoy more than 2.5 million page views per month. We expect Club members to benefit from this.
Who doesn’t need revenues? The Club will assist its members earn from their blog through our interactive advertising sales team. We will monetize your premium media inventory so that you can focus on blogging and earn on the side.
The Club, being a community in itself, should provide benefits by simply interacting and sharing with other Club members.
Interested?
If our offer seems interesting to you, you can simply fill up the Instablogs Club Application Form.
Image courtesy of Charlie Gentle
Gold medals are raining in Beijing, however, all those who weren’t able to make it to the games can have more fun by participating in the Instablogs Beijing Olympics Contest 2008. Yes, we’re glad to announce the official launch of our contest.
You just have to predict the Top 5 Winning Nations, competing in the Beijing Olympics, as per the final Medal Tally at the end of the games and if you are the lucky one, you could win an iPhone 3G.
Click here to enter the contest.
The contest opens today 11 August 2008 and all entries must be received by 21st August 2008, Thursday at 1700 hrs Beijing Time. And don’t forget to check in our Olympics coverage for minute by minute update.
You can also embed this simple HTML code on your personal blogs to let others know about the contest.
Today somebody asked me a simple question.
What you want from Instablogs? What is Instablogs’ core mission?
A thousand answers came to my mind instantly.
We serve news real fast, covering almost entire planet. Have a very colorful and vibrant community… etc
But then the real answer struck me
Imagine a world without borders.
Imagine a world without wars.
Imagine a world without cultural bindings.
Imagine a world interacting.
Imagine Instablogs.
Yes, this is what we are doing. And I, with the entire team of Instablogs, am proud of it.
And if you have any doubt, I invite you to watch our Daily news video show - Global Report.
I don’t know if you have had the chance to read our corporate blog but Ankit, one of our founders, recently posted about our mission here at Instablogs.
One of our core goals is to highlight critical world issues through the eyes of the people most effected from them.
Now there are many ways we already do that.
We allow anyone to write about anything they feel is important and post it on the site. We let others respond to create a dialog where people can discuss those issues.
We provide a way for you to connect with and track the people who’s opinions you enjoy reading and encourage you become more than just readers of their work but actual friends with them no matter where they are in the world. It allows you to stay informed with the people and issues you care about most.
We know everyone is busy, so we send out a newsletter with the most discussed and most popular stories of the day. So that if you miss a day or two visiting the site you can still see what everyone else is talking about and keep up with what is important to you.
But we still wanted to do more.
Welcome to Instablogs!
We at Instablogs think that you, our writers, are the most important part of our family.
Our job is to help you find the most interesting stories, write the most compelling stories, get the most comments, and have fun.
This guide should help you to do just that.
When you tell people you work at Instablogs, they want to know more. The questions range from ‘What’s that?’ (if they have never heard of us) to why we made changes, what we’re doing next and what the people are like.
We’re starting a blog so everyone can get a close-up view of what we’re doing every day to make Instablogs happen. We’ll update it regularly, with different people posting about new features or sharing what’s been happening with us. In general, come here to get a better sense of who we are and what we’re up to. It should be interesting.
As a leader (hopefully) in the Citizen Journalism space we also have opinions (viewpoints!) of what’s going on in the new media arena. Expect to read those thoughts here as well.
We consider your feedback an integral, important part of this conversation, so feel free to share your views on how we could make Instablogs more useful and informative to you.
Now the one thing we know about here at Instablogs is, well, blogs. We know that blogs are all about communication with readers. And we get that people want to know who’s giving them that information.
So here’s the deal. When we post something that’s unsigned, it’s just general Instablogs information that we think may be of interest to you. Apply whatever filter you deem appropriate. When something is signed by Ankit or Nadini or another Instablogger, that’s really them talking about something important to them. You’ll likely see lots of both kinds of posts, depending on the subject and who’s around to write about it.
We are fortunate to be an international company with smart, dedicated employees all over the world. Hopefully you’ll hear from a lot of them as well.
Thanks for reading this far, and we hope you enjoy our blog.
We have launched the new version of Instablogs few months ago, and we are overwhelmed by the great response. We are one of the most colorful communities on the internet. You will find people from all corner of the world, from New Zealand to Canada, Chile to Russia.
One of the core focuses of Instablogs is to bring people from different regions, cultures, dialects together on a single platform.
We aim to:
1. Highlight critical world issues through the eyes of the people most effected from them.
2. Increase collaboration and dialogue between people of different nationalities, ideas and cultures.
3. Initiate dialogue between world’s citizens. Understand each other’s issues and encourage them to see themselves as citizens of the world.
This official blog is meant to keep you updated with latest launches, new features, members’ interviews etc. As usual feedback, opinions are welcome.
Welcome to Official Blog of Instablogs.
Everyone has a viewpoint.
But not everyone with a viewpoint can unite with the rest of the world and trigger a revolution. And here Instablogs comes into force. We want you to act as triggers of small revolutions by simply expressing the views you cherish.
Instablogs is all about you. And yeah, don’t get surprised if you find your mirror image in someone from a faraway corner of the planet, whom you’ve never met, expressing concerns about what’s boiling in your street. Can you see the challenge? Face it. If not, you’re free to create as many challenges you want and see how the world reacts.
Instablogs bring people from different regions, cultures, dialects together on a single platform. We aim to highlight critical world issues through the eyes of the people most affected by them.
We’re constantly working hard, with valuable inputs from the whole Instablogs Community, to bring together more and more people. If you want to experience how bloggers, citizen journalists and traditional media come together and work in tandem to discover a whole new world, this is the place.
All about the making of Instablogs and other small treasures. Here you'll get all the official info on what goes down at Instablogs.
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