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3 Winning Alternatives to Online Sweepstakes

Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass , which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump , and works for the Real Time Marketing Group . For some time now, companies have been utilizing online promotions as a means to increase brand excitement and build a strong following. While there are many different types of promotions, sweepstakes appear to be more and more popular
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100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership.
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The Next “Oxford English Dictionary” Could Be Online-Only

Bad news for everyone out there who was eager to hold the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (that exceedingly portable 20-volume set of wordy goodness): Thanks to the rise of the Internet, the next OED will probably be online-only. Granted, OED3 is still about a decade in the making (according to The Telegraph , a team of 80 lexicographers have been working on it for the past 21 years), but seeing as how the OED has never posted a profit since its inception back in 1879, the move to online-only seems like a long time coming. The second edition of the dictionary (which came out in 1989) has been online for about 10 years now and garners about 2 million hits per month from subscribers. Add to that a plethora of online dictionary sources, and the stack of books that make up OED3 seems a bit, well, like an unnecessary massacre of trees. Oxford University Press, which prints the dictionary, will still continue to publish the slimmer Oxford Dictionary of English , however, which should set your mind at ease if you’re one of those folks who likes to keep a giant dictionary on a pedestal in the parlor.
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The Emmy Awards Get Social

The 2010 Emmy Awards are this Sunday, and NBC is using the ceremony to embrace social media in a big way. NBC is using services such as Twitter , yfrog and Ustream to bring a more real-time experience to the event. These services will also let fans and viewers interact with Emmy presenters using social media. Due to time-shift viewing and a growing number of viewing alternatives via cable or the Internet, network television ratings are in a period of decline. Award shows, which are historically considered tentpole events, haven’t been immune to this trend, either
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Cheezburger Network Head Offers to Buy Reddit Via Twitter

We’ve seen marriage proposals , political protests , high-profile resignations and daring escapes executed via Twitter; here’s a new one for the list of bizarre and significant tweets. Ben Huh , founder and CEO of the Cheezburger Network and meme mastermind, has offered to buy link-sharing site Reddit for an undisclosed sum. After approaching a few Reddit staffers privately about his desire to acquire the struggling site, he made the offer publicly via The Daily What and then tweeted his intentions for all the world to read. Reddit is currently owned by Condé Nast, publishers of print publications from tech-focused Wired to fashion rag Vogue
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Mysterious Verizon-bound HTC handset appears mysteriously on the internet

Hey -- what's this? Well, from the looks of it, it's a new, as-yet-unnamed HTC device. There is perilously little info available about the mystery mobile, but it appears to boast an 8 megapixel camera with a flash plus a front-facing camera, a 4.3-inch screen, a headphone jack and a kickstand.
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Microsoft Co-founder Sues Apple, Google and Facebook

Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple , Google , Facebook and eight other companies through his current firm, Interval Licensing LLC. The lawsuit alleges that 11 different companies, including YouTube , Netflix and AOL , have violated four different patents associated with web search and e-commerce. As the Wall Street Journal notes, Interval Licensing LLC is a firm that holds IP developed at the now-defunct Interval Research.
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Illustrator Turns Cute Animal Meme into an Art [PICS]

Do you like adorable animals? Do you like adorable animals doing silly things? Do you like adorable animals doing silly things that have become Internet famous? Well, then, we’ve found your new favorite artist, a veritable Van Gogh of virality: Joshua Ellingson.
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The Ballad of Cat Bin Lady: The Internet’s Latest Viral Villain

It’s a thin line between Internet Hero and Internet Horror, and it seems that for one woman in Coventry, England, that line has been clearly crossed — over to the “horror” side, that is. Mary Bale, 45, found herself caught in the crosshairs of the reputation executor that is the web this week after a surveillance video of her placing a cat in a garbage bin went viral. Now, the Internet is replete with parodies, groups and spin-offs dedicated to bringing Bale down. Ah, what we can achieve when we really apply ourselves… According to The New York Times , Lola the cat was discovered unhappily yowling in a garbage bin outside the home of owners Stephanie and Daryll Mann. In hopes of discovering who had trashed kitty, the couple looked at security footage of the area, which showed an unidentified middle-aged woman petting the cat, and then dropping it in the trash.
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Remains of the Day: Apple’s Got Big Music Plans in One Week [For What It's Worth]

Apple announces a music event for September 1, Bing finds the nearest food carts in Portland, and Internet Explorer 9's got a slick new look. More
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