By EspenAO. Saturday, 27. September 2008, 13:44:00
opera, prizes, summer stories, community
Here are the winners of our "Summer Stories" contest! A particular thanks to everyone who helped determine best stories told.
- zetorres (32% of all votes)
- eztigma and G-off (17% of all votes)
- ellinidata (16% of all votes)
The winners will be contacted by private message so we can send them our "back to school" kit!
Congratulations, everyone!
By EspenAO. Saturday, 1. December 2007, 20:19:54
winners, widgets, advent, calendar
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This post will be updated with winners of our Christmas Advent Calendar.
By EspenAO. Wednesday, 28. November 2007, 18:06:09
winners, widgets, contest, prizes
The talented developers who'll receive goodie-bags are:
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!
By EspenAO. Friday, 27. July 2007, 10:30:06
movie, simpsons, winner, prizes
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We assume many of you are excited to find out who's the random winner of our "The Simpsons Movie Quiz!". The wait has now come to an end.
Read more...
By EspenAO. Friday, 12. January 2007, 14:29:09
winners, photo blog, opera mini, nintendo wii
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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.
By EspenAO. Monday, 8. January 2007, 13:10:39
photo blog, opera mini, nintendo wii, prizes

The My Opera team would like to thank all for the creative stories submitted for this contest
Now it's time to determine a winner. There has been some discussion about the validity of an open poll. Because we want the community - and not Opera - to determine the winner, we came up with a solution that both protects the integrity of the competition, and reflects the true intent of the community. So, instead of having a poll we've created a separate page.
We agree that a public poll might affect the final result (and to keep some of the excitement going), we've created a form to be used exclusively for voting.
To cast your vote, and view the submissions, click here.The winner will be announced on Friday, January 12
th.
By EspenAO. Wednesday, 27. December 2006, 13:01:06
elves at Opera, prizes, widgets, snow
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. |
By EspenAO. Friday, 15. December 2006, 11:46:35
free, t-shirt, prizes, opera

After going through the submissions we decided to increase the number of free t-shirts we're giving away for free by 10 - to a total of 20. Here are the first ten, and the randomly picked ten others. Have a great holiday!
- August Lai
- Igor Moschcowitz
- Babox
- Csaba Szokocs
- Gianluigi Alesso
- Grim Gurihus
- Sterling Little
- Oliver Hagel
- Rui Costa
- Hideto
- Wojtek Kapcia
- Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo
- Mario Wilhelm
- Akira Yufuku
- Daniel Adamski
- Eddie Lopez
- Andreas Westerberg
- Hannah Martin
- Iain Wilson
- Trevor Gough
By EspenAO. Thursday, 7. December 2006, 10:34:47
nintendo wii, opera mini, photo blog, prizes

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!
By EspenAO. Wednesday, 1. November 2006, 08:54:59
competition, prizes, frontpage
The entries has popped in at a rapid pace for the last couple of days! First of all we want to thank all who participated. We hope you had a good (maybe even a bit frustrating
) time hunting down the doors we scattered around on My Opera.
Enough of the chit-chat, here are the top-10 winners:
1. Jorge Glez López
2. Adrian Ilie
3. David Høysæther
4. Wang Jiaji
5. Wojtek Kowaluk
6. ResearchWizard
7. Eddie Lopez
8. Ramunas Monkevicius
9. Remco Lanting
10. Johannes Wijffels
The remaining 40 who will receive Opera merchandise can be viewed here.
Congratulations to all of you! And for those of you who didn't make it this time, don't worry, we got several competitions on the horizon 