Jamsbio.com is giving away $5 Amazon.com gift cards every hour for playing their SongBlitz Mega Challenge.

Think you know your music? Identify clips of songs to earn points, winner with the most points at the end of the hour gets an Amazon.com gift card. Hourly winners will be entered into a lottery for the grand prize of an 8gb iPod.

Prize(s):
$5 Amazon.com gift card every hour

8gb iPod grand prize

How to Enter:
Go to Jamsbio.com and play the SongBlitz music game. Test your music knowledge for a chance to win awesome prizes.

Contest Ends:
09/01/2008

Enter: SongBlitz Megachallenge

Capessa is joining forces with Zappos and OK! Magazine to find the BEST PROPOSAL STORY EVER. Share all the special details of how he got you to agree to say “I do,” and you could win a $500 shopping spree, from Zappos.com courtesy of Not Your Daughters Jeans.

Prize(s):
$500 Zappos.com shopping spree

How to Enter: Submit your story at the contest entry page.

Contest Ends: 07/23/2008

I love contests with tangible prizes. Especially ones giving away prizes worth a damn. The Net Fool is giving away a digital camcorder - a Flip Mino (worth $180) and a $50 gift card for Market Leverage, the affiliate network who is sponsoring this contest.

The Flip Mino is a cool little device, smaller than most cell phones. It records up to 60 minutes of video with one-touch functionality and through it’s proprietary software, can post directly to Youtube, AOL Video, Myspace, and other websites. It’s great for bloggers and product reviewers who just need something inexpensive but quality. I might actually buy this thing if I don’t win the contest. It got a perfect 5-star rating on Amazon from nine reviewers.

Anyway, on to the rules:

To enter:

• Mandatory –> Registration and 1 Ticket: Subscribe to our RSS feed via email
• 1 Ticket per Submission: Submit one of our posts to social media networks Digg, StumbleUpon and/or Mixx
• 15 Tickets: Make a 300+ word blog post that links back to this contest at theNetFool.com and Market Leverage
• 25 Tickets: Create a video and submit it to YouTube

That last entry method…if I could do that, I wouldn’t need the Flip Mino

Anyway, two winners will be drawn. First place will win the Flip Mino, and Second place will win the $50 gift card from Market Leverage.

The contest ends on June 25th, 2008.

The Net Fool’s June Birthday Bash

Be careful going to this page, there is a REALLY annoying “chat” pop-up that keeps coming up, even though you close it repeatedly.

Prize(s):
Grand Prize: $7,500 scholarship and $500
Second Place: $3,000 scholarship and $500
Third Place: $2,000 scholarship or $500
Two runner up prizes of $100 Amazon gift certificates

How to Enter:
Tell us how a degree from WGU could improve your life or the life of someone you’ll know. Whether you make us laugh or make us cry, that’s up to you.
Just go to the video entry page to enter your video!

Contest Ends: 08/11/2008

Contest by: Celebrate with Style

Prize(s):
$250 gift certificate to the restaurant of your choice

How to Enter:
It is free. Share a great photo of Dad (or Grandpa) and the kids for a chance to win $250 to take dad to dinner

Contest Ends:
05/30/2008

The winner will be chosen by votes from visitors to the site. Deadline to enter is 5/30/08, deadline for voting is 6/6/08, and the winner will be announced on 6/10/08.

Contest Page: Father’s Day Photo Contest

Original Penguin is giving away one $1000 gift card and a Microsoft Zune.

Here’s their legal mumbo-jumbo that was submitted to me:

To enter, visit www.originalpenguin.com (the “Website”) during the Entry Period and completely fill out all the required fields on the entry form, then submit your entry form to the Website as instructed. Completion of the survey is not required to enter the Sweepstakes. ALL ONLINE ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11:59 PM EST ON APRIL 6, 2008. Limit one (1) entry per person per e-mail address throughout the Entry Period. Entries by the same person in excess of the limits stated herein will be disqualified. Entries submitted to the Website will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of the entry. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Mechanically altered or reproduced entries are not eligible.

Right, so go to the contest page, click on the “enter for a chance to win” graphic, then fill out the required info. The contest ends on April 6th.

TheBetaNews is holding a contest with a great prize package. Here are the prizes:

• Lorelle VanFossen’s book “Blogging Tips - What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging” signed by Lorelle.
• David Airey from DavidAirey.com will give the winner a critique of his/hers blog with suggestions and improvements.
• Three Entrecard Featured Status - This means you get a golden border around your Entrecard for a week. Entrecard also sponsor three Fast Passes so you can jump to the top of an advert request.
• One Amazon.com $100 gift card
• One Amazon.com $30 gift card
• One Amazon.de €20 gift card (to make the Euros happy)
• Two $25 in cash through PayPal
• Three The Beta News t-shirts with logo

Some really great prizes, so how do you enter?

Option 1: Follow me on Twitter. At a random time I will announce a keyword on Twitter and the followers will have three hours to mail it to me. A random follower will then be drawn.

Option 2: Keyword in RSS-feed. Subscribe to my RSS-feed and mail the keyword to me. Send the “secret” word to contest (at) thebetanews.com.

Option 3: Blog about the contest or The Beta News content. Write a blog post about the contest, or one of the sponsors, or one of The Beta News posts (for instance one of the Show Me Your Desktop interviews) using relevant anchor text like “celebrity blogger interview, problogger interview or blogging advice”. Remember to Stumble your post and if you think it’s really good, submit it to Digg, sphinn or other sites.

Remember to post a link in a comment in the contest post. I will Stumble your post as well. I can only encourage you to Stumble other contestants posts too.

Option 4: Take a picture of your blog “HQ” or desktop. Take a picture or a small video of what your blogger HQ, desk or computer desktop looks like. Post it in a blog post and link to this post.

Complete one or more options. Each option gives you an extra chance in the final drawing. All drawings are made by random.org on February 22nd.

Beta News 2 Year Anniversary Contest

Jackies Biz Blog is giving away 2 movie tickets to Fandango theaters just in time for Valentines Day. To enter:

1 Ticket - Subscribe to my RSS Feed.
3 Tickets - Blog Post about the Contest linking to this Post.
1 Ticket (limit 5) - Comment on Blog

The winner will be announced on Feb 8th.

Valentine’s Contest - Win two Movie Tickets

Contest Blogger is holding a contest for a $100 gift certificate to GoodCleanLove. To enter:

Write a new post on you blog and link to GoodCleanLove using the anchor text “increase libido” and to Contest Blogger with the anchor text “free samples.” Contact Contest Blogger with the post URL and you’re in.

The winner is chosen at random on February 14th.

Contest Blogger Valentine’s Day Contest

John Cow - the marketing genius behind the successful John Chow spoof site JohnCow.com teamed up with AdToll dot com to offer a contest for one lucky winner to receive a $250 Amazon.com Gift Certificate.

It’s pretty easy to enter, just write a quick blurb about the contest on your blog linking back to the contest page and sponsor however you want, making the entry at least 200 words long.

After that, give a thumbs up on StumbleUpon for AdToll, leaving a short review as well, then a thumbs up for John Cow, and your own blog. Then take a screen shot of your StumbleUpon user profile showing that you gave a thumbs up to those three pages and post the URL to the screenshot in the comments section on the contest page.

The winner will be chosen at random on December 20th. I don’t have much experience yet with AdToll but I’m heard some good things so I signed up for an account (you can do the same) and put up one of my blogs for advertising. AdToll also has an affiliate program where you can earn 20% commission on profit made from Advertisers in a 90 day period, and 10% commission on profit made from Publishers for a 365 day period.

That would be very nice to win $250 from Amazon, there’s quite a bit of stuff in my wish list I’d love to have.

Win a $250 Amazon Gift Certificate from John Cow