Opera Competitions

Opera Mini is now in its 4th version, and to celebrate an upcoming release, we want to create a collage featuring people using Opera Mini from around the world.

Therefore, we're reaching out to you. We would like to tribute you on our product pages (among other places) with a picture (head shot) and a testimonial (1-2 sentences) about why you love Opera Mini.

It's recommended that you submit a picture of yourself which is in good quality (high resolution and minimal amount of noise). Feel free to snap a picture of yourself doing something fun while surfing the Web on your phone, or something similar. All you need is a camera and a good chunk of imagination. Just be sure to have your face fairly prominent in the picture.

The reward for those who're used in the collage will receive an Opera goodie-bag and instant Internet fame by being recognized with our smallest (but most powerful) browser .

Good luck everyone, and we can't wait to see those testimonials!

Rules

• Deadline is on Monday, May 12th.
• Images are limited to .jpg, .gif, .png and .pdf. If you would like to use a different format, please send an inquiry first.
• Email attachments are limited to 1 MB. Please send an inquiry if your submission is greater than 1 MB size, or if you have a location to host your file (such as your My Opera Community account), simply send the link.
• It is prohibited to send content which is defamatory, offensive or abusive or of an obscene or menacing nature.
• Send your entry as an attachment or upload it to your My Opera Community page, and email the link.
• By sending us your submission, you accept that Opera Software ASA may re-use your submission for marketing purposes.

The talented developers who'll receive goodie-bags are:

Winning Widgets:	Talented Winners:
Global Search and Reservations of Hotels	sergesz
KDE News	calsbert
Human Clock	pakin
Baby and Pregnancy Countdown Ticker	3dpregnancy
RMF RDS	eXtreme_pl
Character Map	gyrobo
Idokep 3.06	Lali19871014
Learning Kana	CoverYourEyes
Operanoid	Fryd
Seattle Traffic	qwerty967
PlanetWerks	GreyWyvern
HabrahabrWidget	putincev
Gramme	vaccha
Moscow Cam	alexs
DabWatch	Wataru Kanzaki
SUDOKU-Puzzle	derletztekick
Roadtrip	ja002h
Livescores 0.1	Hellas

It's great to see new developers and users on My Opera take initiative, but also to win prizes! It also goes to show that anyone can win!

A very good Widget we want to spotlight for week #4 is Project Velt 2.2 by gyrobo.

We would also like to add a small thank you note about the worthy cause of raising awareness about homeless issues, with this widget: Homeless not hopeless.

calsbert is a new user, but he hasn't held back. As soon as he joined, he translated the Artist's Sketchbook for Grafio. Albert sure seems like a great guy!

December is just around the corner, along with a bigger competition with an even bigger prize. We won't say what it is just yet, but it's coming. All widgets uploaded now are eligible for the grand prize.

We'll fill you in on more details in a while... but for now, all you need to do is — make a great widget!

All good things must come to an end (well ... almost), and for the last five days we've been nailed in front of our computers in excitement. The race has been tight, but the one who pulled the longest straw won by 9 percent.

We're very proud to present the new owner of a Nintendo Wii. His submission was carefully planned, and really caught the essence of the contest. All, please congratulate GuitarBoy with his story "Photoblogging photoblogging..." who won first place with 32.4% of the votes.

Wael_CH came close, with 23.4% of the votes he rounds up nicely with a second place, and wins a Nintendo DS Browser Card.

PrettyHA8 came third with 20.1%, and wins an Opera goodie-bag

Thinkgeek, Hbazerbashi and Avheretic had all creative and excellent submissions, but unfortunately they did not come in the top-3. But we don't want anyone to leave empty handed, so we decided to give away an Opera t-shirt to each.

We had a lot of fun creating and planning this contest. We would like to thank everyone who submitted a photo blogin' story, but also to everyone who voted.

We're getting warmed up for the holidays here in Oslo, and nothing feels better than giving. With our "Win a Wii with Opera Wiidgets" contest we pick a winner every third day who will receive an Opera goodie bag.

When	Who	Widget	Why
Dec 18th	Xexor	Opera Snow	Good, clean code. Pleasing aesthetics. Fitting theme.
Dec 21st	Jiraffus	Lingvo	Widget made with good, clean code. He also took help from the widget resources.
Dec 25th	Ja002H	MyTV	Shows TV listings for almost any service in the US. Good animations. Very configurable.
Dec 28th	krzychoocpp	Video Manager	Flash Video search Widget from Google, YouTube and metacafe
Jan 1st	gaq	cqsoft.com.ar infocenter	Good use of animations, nice menu, several feeds and lots of information
Jan 4th	magnus.an	iLike	Find websites other Opera-users like and share your favourite websites with the world.
Jan 8th	Shoust	My Opera Explorer	Rich features. Innovative. Blog posting, file explorer and statisics on your My Opera account.
Jan 11th	Skid94	PaxKel Radio Widget	Allows PaxKel listeners to view current song's album cover. Entertainment RSS feed also provided.
Jan 23rd	The winners of the Nintendo Wii and DS Lite are revealed.

Be a master storyteller using Opera Mini this holiday! Snap a series of pictures that tells a story. Here are some simple ground rules for you to get started:

* Snap minimum 10-, maximum 20 pictures
* A title for the story is required
* No other text is allowed
* Only use the Photo Blog feature on Opera Mini 3.0
* Upload the pictures to your blog
* Post a link to your story here
* Submit your contribution by January 7th, 2007

The winners will then be determined by a community vote in this thread.

Here are the prizes:

1st place: Nintendo Wii
2nd place: Nintendo DS Browser Card
3rd place: Opera goodies (brOwse me t-shirt, Opera Messenger Bag and more)!

Don't have Opera Mini on your phone? Click here to download it.

Here you will find a step by step photo guide on how to Photo Blog using Opera Mini 3.0.

By user request there is also a video available demonstrating how to Photo Blog and upload it to your My Opera account.

Good luck!