[sushrukh]

I'm also a bit tired to see contests only for US/Canadians but this is global.

[sushrukh]

I'm also a bit tired to see contests only for US/Canadians but this is global.

[maxnix]

I don't get it!

All I see is links to HP Product Placement Page referring back to blogs. It's confusing if each blogger is giving away a system or if there is only one system.

No information how to enter.

Must have been designed by the Windows Vista promotion team.

[timtam]

Thanks for your kindness. How do we participate?

[satergang]

This is an awesome prize package!!! I know many people who could benefit from this including students in college whose computer is falling apart and they are desperate for a new one, but can't afford a new one in these tough times. Hope I win!

[JD_Denver]

This is awesome, and, yes, there's one of these packages for EACH of the 50 participating blogs. The dates are staggered among the blogs, and each blog has at least some leeway in setting how they'll do this, so there's not a "standard" set of rules across all 50 blogs. Digital Home Thoughts portion will run Dec 12- Dec 18

And yes, it's worldwide.

Here;s the master site: http://www.hp.com/united-states/camp...blogger-magic/

Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard.

[Tangentjude]

This is a AWESOME giveaway package from HP and Digital Home Thoughts. But I can't seem to find the rules posted so I would have to guess it hasnt started on this blog yet!

I know I'd love to win. I need a new notebook forsure! I've had to replace 3 motherboards in my notebook in the past 2 years, not to mention the screen and the DVD drive. So I'd have to keep one notebook for myself.

All the other notebooks and stuff to would make great surprise holiday gifts this years.

Keep me posted as to when your giveaway begins, I'm ready, willing and able to get started for whatever it takes to get a chance to win!

[fpellerito]

Sweet! (as he wipes the drool from the corners of his mouth)

[flared0ne]

It is interesting to realize that we're moving into a whole new development phase of the social networking "tsunami" forming on the Internet. I know, Corporate America has been "aware" of bloggers, increasingly, as has Political America... But what we're starting to see is an honest appraisal of just how many eyeballs the bloggers and forums are able to boast -- and commercial expansion into the Public Relations aspect of sponsoring flashy promotions, which incidentally get a lot of decent publicity out there into the very category of active consumers that most companies only DREAM of being able to target so tightly!!

SO -- it is going to be VERY interesting to see just how THIS particular promotion plays out... If you think about it, this is still somewhat of a trial run, to see just how to get the most "bang for their buck" -- which means that each of the 50 different blogs "gifted" with this set of prizes, each with their slightly different approach to generating an enthusiastic response, is providing a research test-bed to help figure out "do's and don'ts".

Some of the blogs are using this opportunity to improve THEIR network standing, by requiring multiple layers of external linkages back, and DIGG and Twitter and Facebook and etc etc links. As far as I've seen the only externally imposed constraint appears to involve "sharing the wealth", finding some socially conscious aspect as improving the odds for any given contestant.

Have to give good odds we're going to see a few more promotions like this, at least until consensus is reached about whether this is more cost effective (cost versus eyeballs) than Superbowl commercials, eh?

[blakcshadow]

How do we enter?

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by blakcshadow

How do we enter?

The Digital Home Thoughts contest starts on the 12th...at the time I announced this contest I was under the impression that I wasn't allowed to announce our date, but it seems I was allowed to after all.