Scores from Contest 1

Sorry for the late posting. We have been really busy with new feature requests and in preparing for Proto . This still does not excuse the delay and we apologize for the same. The final scores on Dec 31 , 2006 were as below,

1. Kamlesh Bharti 2943

2. Priyanka Chaurasia 2891

3. Deepesh Shah 2530

Kamlesh, we just shipped your PS2. Please send us a picture when you receive it.

There will also be less posts on the contest going forward and more on our progress and features. Our next big release is around the corner, we hope you will be as excited as we are about it.

We have a winner! but the contest may not be over ..

Well we now have a winner.. And it was so close that it could have put the Bush/Al Gore race to shame. It was so close that vegas casionos would have taken bets on it. But at 12:00 AM Jan 01 , IST we had the winner. Without further ado,  our winner is

Kamlesh Bharti 

Congrats Kamlesh. We will get in touch with you via email for the formalities.

So is the contest over? We will be posting about the future of the contest and also about who is #2,#3 and their counts in a few hours in a more detailed post.

Contest Update

Well, we are coming to an end of the PS2 contest and as in everything else in life, one can be #1 for only so long. Kamlesh Bharti has been our #1 promoter since day 1 until 3 days ago, our new #1 is Deepesh Shah. We still have about 25 days in the contest and a lot can still happen between now and then. Here are our top 3

1. Deepesh Shah – 868 points

2. Kamlesh Bharti  – 827 points

3. Rahul Basu         – 756 points

Thanks again everyone for participating.

Say hello to the new #3

Thanks for all the extra work put in by our users, we scored the single biggest increase in web traffic since I last posted the results. Here is the latest update

#1 Kamlesh Bharti (369 referrals) – No surprises there

#2 Rahul Basu ( 337 referrals)

#3 Deepesh Shah (306 referrals)

There are loads of users in the 200+ range and with a month left to go can still play catchup. Deepesh has had the fastest week of growth since we started the program. He has also been quite creative in using his url(I can’t quite go into the details here

Oh and somebody is trying to game the system by hiding their referrer information using tools such as Anonym.to .
Please refrain from such practises. Our ever friendly apache log captures this and per contest rules such tactics can lead to disqualification.