Win $6000 with John Chow and Xr.com

John Chow and XR.com are giving away $6,000 in a new blog contest. A total of $5,000 will be donated to a charity of the winner's choosing and $1,000 will be awarded directly to the winner. In my case if I win this contest, then I would like to donate the five thousand to streetchildrenofnepal in Kathmandu, Nepal. With the other one thousand, I think I'm going to save it for my family, because my family needs that money rather than me.

All people must have heard of John Chow, if not you can visit his website. And so, what is XR.com? XR.com is a new application that provides services for URL shortening.

The contest is being sponsored by XR.com. XR.com is a tiny url service that will shorten long URLs, essential for sending links out on Twitter which limits the number of characters you can post per tweet. Sign up for an account and check it out!

I'm hoping to win this content and donate the better part of the contest prize to the charity and keep the rest for my family. You people and also go ahead and get yourself an account at XR.com.

Open Web Awards - Bloggers’ Choice

The Blogger’s Choice Awards for this this year has been great with many good nominations. Mashable has announced this year’s Blogger’s Choice Award Winners.

Also, do not forget that your votes for the People’s Choice Awards ends this Sunday. So, if want to make sure that you choice gets the award then make sure you too vote. You still have a chance to change the People’s Choice Award winners.

Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks

Winner: Twitter
Runner-up: Facebook

Embeddable Widgets

Winner: Clearspring
Runner-up: Sprout

Blog Plugins

Winner: ShareThis
Runner-up: AddThis

Social News

Winner: Digg
Runner-up: Mixx

Social Networking Applications

Winner: Ping.fm
Runner-up: Twitterfeed

Social Bookmarking

Winner: Delicious
Runner-up: StumbleUpon

Search & Social Search

Winner: Google
Runner-up: Scour

Sports & Fitness

Winner: Gyminee
Runner-up: Oneseason

Photo Sharing

Winner: Flickr
Runner-up: Picasa

Video Sharing

Winner: YouTube
Runner-up: Vimeo

Start Pages

Winner: iGoogle
Runner-up: Netvibes

Places & Events

Winner: Doodle
Runner-up: Eventbrite

Travel

Winner: TripIt
Runner-up: GeckoGo

Music

Winner: Last.fm
Runner-up: Pandora

Social Shoppin

Winner: Wishpot
Runner-up(s): Tigerbow/Pikaba

Fashion

Winner: Coolspotters
Runner-up: Gift Girl

Celebrity & Gossip

Winner: Perez Hilton
Runner-up: Popvine

Mobile Applications

Winner: Evernote
Runner-up: Qik

Dating & Romance

Winner: SpeedDate
Runner-up: OKCupid

Wiki

Winner: Wikipedia
Runner-up: PBWiki

Politics

Winner: Huffington Post
Runner-up: CreateDebate

How-to

Winner: eHow
Runner-up: Howcast

Environmental

Winner: ThinkGreen
Runner-up: SocialVibe

Non-Profit Causes

Winner: SocialVibe
Runner-up: Kiva

Online Games

Winner: Playfish
Runner-up: Kongregate

Niche Social Networks

Winner: Wadja
Runner-up: Lifeblob

We would like to congratulate all.

The first and final voting rounds will be held from November 19th till December 15th.

http://mashable.com/2008/12/10/announcing-bloggers-choice-open-web-awards-winners/

Poverty removal from the Earth

We all bloggers stand hand to hand to remove poverty from the earth.

This post is part of Blog Action Day 08 - Poverty

It is not difficult to remove poverty from the world. The only thing that is required is the will to do so. What you me and we have to do is help someone who is seeking help in case of surviving or doing something better for the betterment of life. Everybody knows that different conditions create poverty in family, society and then in the country.

Education is the source of light for anyone. So let us educate at least one child who is in need. Let us give proper treatment to at least one needy community. Let us be responsible for our family, our community and the whole world.

The previous year Blogaction Day made a huge difference in saving environment and this year too we walk together to clean poverty from the earth. Lets help to create a smile on one more face and that this be a continuous process, and that everyone on this earth is happy and hence poverty removed from this earth.

We can all contribute in different ways. Some effort might be small others might be quite big. But, let us all unite so that we can be a giant force and help to remove poverty from this earth and for ever.

Note: Very sorry for posting late and more for posting late for this article.

Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty

After the huge success of last year’s Blog Action Day about the subject “Environment” this year again the whole bloggers’ community from all around the world are supporting and fighting against Poverty. As a blogger, I too am making an appealing about “Poverty” through this blog.

Just saying, "remove poverty" does not do any good. But if people unite together then we can achieve something. I always believe in TEAM effort. By uniting we certainly can achieve much more objective. As a blogger, I would help to spread this information so that much more people get aware of this noble cause.

If anyone of you who are blogger and hadn’t knew about this please support the whole blogger community to fight against the poverty and spread the positive message to the whole world, as you are a blogger too. Just because of your one post about supporting “Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty” can make a lots of change. Please click here to know more about the Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty.