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I Won The John Chow RSS contest

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Well yes this is the second time I am winning something this year. Sometime back I had won the third prize in a WordPress plugin competition, but this time I am the grand winner at the John Chow RSS contest. The actual contest was between John Chow and Shoemoney to see who can get the maximum amount of feed readers in the month of October.

To spice up the contest John held his own contest to get readers to give him the best idea to gain more RSS readers, well my idea came out tops and I won the grand prize. The idea that I gave John Chow was to add in email subscription to get more feed readers and that helped a lot :-).

Well here is what I won

  • A 2GB iPod Nano.
  • A $750 redesign for the blog by Adriaan Pienaar of Adii.
  • $400 review by John Chow dot Com.
  • Ad in the John Chow dot Com RSS feed.

I am happy to win and now that I will be getting a theme redesign, I think I will release my current theme with a GPL license.

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  1. CypherHackz on November 2nd, 2007 at 6:27 pm #

    Ha3. Congrats dude. Btw can you give me the ipod? You don’t want it right? :p

  2. Alfred on November 2nd, 2007 at 9:46 pm #

    Gratz :D
    Will be waiting when u release this theme, I would like to use it for an orphanage blog tht i plan to make

  3. Mayur on November 3rd, 2007 at 12:12 am #

    Congratulations ! Even I would like to have this theme, and hope u get a better one :D

  4. Shankar Ganesh on November 3rd, 2007 at 1:02 am #

    Great Prizes :D

    Congratulations :D

  5. Anirudh on November 3rd, 2007 at 6:18 am #

    Wow, Congratulations.

    that’s a nice idea and i remember lots of prizes being given away at contest.

    RSS subscribers for all !

  6. PC on November 3rd, 2007 at 6:45 am #

    This is amazing. Congrats. Eagerly awaiting your new design and review.

  7. Rishi on November 3rd, 2007 at 6:48 am #

    Wow amazing. :) A review by John Chow, damn! Its amazing :) Congrats dude! ;)

  8. Adam Dempsey on November 3rd, 2007 at 7:37 am #

    Congratulations on winning!

  9. Vijay on November 3rd, 2007 at 7:47 am #

    Congrats Keith! The review sure is gonna make your traffic shoot through the roof!

  10. narendra.s.v on November 3rd, 2007 at 8:03 am #

    wow! congrats me too have won 2 time
    1 @ ibibo.com worth $3000
    2 @ Blogcatalog.com worth $2500
    3 @ guruji.com worth a t-shirt ;)

  11. keith on November 3rd, 2007 at 8:15 am #

    @Cypherhackz – Thanks :-), Well that iPod is going to someone special :-)

    @Alfred – Thanks, good to know that you are taking the initiative for the orphanage.

    @Mayur – Thanks :-) I will be releasing this theme as GPL once within next few days.

    @Shankar – Thanks, your theme is shaping up nicely too :-)

    @Anirudh – Thanks :-)

    @PC – Thanks, am also eagerly awaiting it.

    @Rishi – Yups I know thanks :-)

    @ Adam – Thanks

    @Vijay – Thanks, yups and i hope it does go up.

    @Narendra Glad you won too :-)

  12. ram on November 3rd, 2007 at 5:26 pm #

    congratulations on winning some great prizes

  13. indyank on November 3rd, 2007 at 9:57 pm #

    congrats keith…I love your current design…don’t get too flashy like john chow’s…he has great blogging skills but the design to me is too flasy…ofcourse the design should be more in tune with the niche of your blog…

    but definitely get more popular like john chow…You are a good programmer and you can do great things by yourselves…if the new theme is really cool then go for it…but do have your say…

  14. Raymond on November 4th, 2007 at 5:38 am #

    Congratulation dude,

    I just saw that in John’s blog. :)

  15. Madhur Kapoor on November 4th, 2007 at 9:16 am #

    Congrats buddy. The prizes are cool.

  16. Garry Conn on November 4th, 2007 at 2:13 pm #

    Man Congrats! We couldn’t have asked for a more deserving winner. I am very happy for you man. A lot of hard work and now look what you have to show for it! :)

    Take care buddy!

    - Garry

  17. Kyle Eslick on November 5th, 2007 at 8:30 am #

    Wow, that is incredible! You must have a lot of luck on your side.

    If you need someone to find a use for the iPod let me know :D

    Oh, and I think releases your theme is an excellent idea, or you could always use it on a new blog or something instead since you put all the work into it.

    • keith on November 5th, 2007 at 8:47 am #

      Thanks for your Wishes Kyle. The iPod is already going to someone special :-). Well I think I’ll release this theme as a GPL soon :-)