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30 Sep 2009

Few weeks ago we announced the Mega Freebies Day, and celebrated with a new design for Noupe. 15 generous sponsors offered to give away premium web design-related products, services & licenses just for you guys.

Over 450 wonderful readers participated in the giveaway. And the winners were randomly selected and are now announced in this post.

And the winners are…

1. ThemeForest

#51495 | Matty
#51500 | Jelani Harris
#51501 | Nina
#51508 | Ahmad Alfy
#51519 | Marko Randjelovic
#51525 | Mustafa Quilon
#51535 | coldchiliandhotchilly
#51555 | Jesse McFarlane
#51586 | Francois
#51620 | Chris Robinson

2. Page Flip

#51629 | WpthemesMall
#51650 | Heather St. Marie

3. Elegant Themes

#51652 | yasser
#51686 | Blurt Brumme
#51732 | Peter Steen Høgenhaug

4. SnobbySlice

#51759 | karansinh

5. Themegalaxy

#51803 | Paul
#51837 | adam

6. Designious

#51730 | Amy L
#51662 | abhijeet
#51505 | Tom
#51693 | redwall_hp
#51782 | Boci

7. Obox-Design

#51742 | webbografico
#51798 | Stefan Alexandru
#51831 | Rommel Miraflores

8. Gomedia

#51696 | Abhin
#51968 | Alex
#52158 | Pablo

9. Artbox7

#52214 | manSur
#52220 | chaitanya vrk
#52248 | DanHillesheim
#52360 | paburmester
#52383 | Jim

10. Stock Graphic Designs

#52863 | Magdy

11. Flashotaku

#51556 | Darin
#51610 | Jim Raymonds
#52005 | Teo Farro

12. Printprintprint

#51556 | Dipak Patel
#51871 | philip

13. Bizcard

#51560| Michael Castilla
#51858 | Garry

14. Gabfirethemes

#51517 | Alexandru Pitea
#51572 | Bakhtier
#51606 | Dnyanesh
#51582 | RussellUresti
#51591 | Rob
#51601 | Felipe Arima

15. Gorilla Themes

#51628 | Phyza
#51630 | AntiheroKing
#51687 | Rohan

Thank you to everyone who participated and congratulations to all the winners.

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The Best Slide Deck in the World: Explaining Health Care Reform

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30 Sep 2009

Social slide deck site SlideShare will announce today the winners of its 3rd annual “Best Presentation in the World” contest. A panel of business presentation expert judges selected one deck as the grand prize winner out of 3,750 entries from over 130 countries.

That grand prize winner was titled Healthcare Napkins All and was created by visual communication specialist Dan Roam and Dr. Tony Jones. You may or may not agree with the political perspective of this 51-slide presentation, but it’s an undeniably impressive way to deliver information.

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The winning presentation has been viewed more than 100,000 times and has been embedded on over 300 other websites. Additional winners were announced in 5 categories, ranging from technology to business to creative/offbeat. Winners were picked by a judging panel made up of Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco, Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, and David Armano, founding member of Dachis group.

SlideShare is a site that has seen surprising growth in just a few short years. Presentation decks may be terribly unsexy but the utility of a good one is clear. Traffic analysts Compete.com report that the SlideShare website saw 1.2 million unique visitors in August. The site fell victim to a malware distribution scam last month but remains one of the least hyped yet most appreciated social media services launched in the last five years.

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It’s Complicated: Warner Music Comes Back to YouTube

In: web resources

30 Sep 2009

Warner Music, which had removed its videos from YouTube after licensing talks with Google broke down last year, just announced that is has reached a new deal with YouTube and that Warner’s music videos will once again appear on YouTube. The partnership, according to the official announcement, covers the complete Warner catalog and “includes user-generated content containing WMG acts.” Warner will be able to monetize user-generated content thanks to Google’s Content ID technology, which can detect copyrighted content in YouTube videos and then allow the copyright holders to sell ads against this inventory.

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According to Google, the partnership is based on a revenue-sharing deal. Thanks to this deal, YouTube users will now have access to videos from all the major record labels and most of the major independent labels as well.

Warner Will Sell its Own Ads and Get a Custom Player

Judging from the announcement, it is clear that the Google Content ID system (which was just integrated with YouTube’s stats package earlier this week) was a major factor in bringing Warner back to YouTube. It’s also important to note that Warner will sell its own advertising inventory. Thanks to this, as Billboard’s Antony Bruno points out, Warner will be able to set its own prices and keep the majority of the ad revenue, even though it will share revenue with YouTube. Bruno also notes that YouTube will create a branded player and custom artist-channels for Warner’s content and that Warner hopes to include more commerce and social networking features in this player.

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