webOSroundup presents the PalmSpot video contest

Today is a big day for us here at webOSroundup. We have been working towards this for several weeks now and we couldn’t be more excited to announce our latest and greatest contest. We call this contest PalmSpot and with it you get the chance to show the world how amazing webOS truly is in your own video. What is even more exciting is that Palm is helping us out to take this contest to a whole new level. Excited yet? Wait till you see the prizes!

• Runners Up: Each category will have two runners up that will receive a Touchstone charging kit.
• First Prize: The best video in each category will receive a new Palm Pre and a Touchstone charging kit!
• Grand Prize: In addition to the first prize goodies, the creator of the best video in the contest will have their Pre completely pimped out including:
  • Jawbone Icon bluetooth headset
  • Invisible Shield
  • Seidio Innocell 1350mAh Extended battery
  • International travel power kit
  • $100 so you can load up your tricked out phone with the best apps on the planet

We may have some other prizes here and there for other honorable mention videos as well so stay tuned! Also, we plan on submitting all first place winners and the grand prize winner to Palm for consideration for a future web ad campaign. No promises though…

• Create your video
• Send us the source.
  • If your movie is less than 10 megs, feel free to email it to us directly (at the address below)
  • For larger files (over 10 megs) we recommend using a free account on TransferBigFiles, DropBox, Gigasize, or the like.
• Email us at [email protected] to let us know where we can download it.
• Make sure to include your name, contact information, the title of the video, and a little background on it. We cannot accept any videos that don’t have valid contact information!!

The purpose of this contest is to create a new and creative video that showcases the strengths of the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, and webOS.

The rules are simple.

• Create a video that showcases your Palm device in a creative manner.
• Videos must be between 30 seconds and two minutes long
• Videos cannot contain any vulgar language or offensive content.
• Videos cannot be a complete ripoff of other copyrighted material (it needs to be original folks)
• Other than that…have fun!

Entries will be accepted until Friday, April 16th. Videos will be categorized and posted on the official webOSroundup YouTube page as they are received, but views will not be counted until Monday, April 19th.

Categories include:

• Funniest
• Most Original
• Best use of webOS

Starting on the 19th, we will start keeping track of the views for two weeks (ending May 7th). The videos in each category with the most views will be selected as the finalists (so make sure you get all your friends and family to watch your video during this time).

Once the finalists are chosen, we will showcase them here on webOSroundup and everyone will be able to vote for their favorites. Finalists will be also be judged by our all-star panel of judges that will be comprised of Boba Fett, Spuds MacKenzie, Duke Nukem, and Clint Eastwood. In the unlikely event that our superstars cannot be reached, then the videos will be judged by the editors of webOSroundup and Palm’s very own Director of Online Communications, Jon Zilber. The final winners will be chosen by weighing the public vote and the judges’ votes (50/50) .

Now of course there has to be a bit of fine print…but we will keep it as simple and to the point as possible.

• The creator of all submissions will retain control and full ownership of the video and its contents; however, by submitting it to webOSroundup you are granting us a license to use the video anywhere on the site for any reason.
• webOSroundup retains the right to refuse a submission for any reason. If you are refused, we will send you an email letting you know why.
• Winners are not guaranteed to be used as a commercial for Palm, only that it will be submitted to them for consideration.
• This contest is open to anyone in the world, but because of the varying agreements with the carriers, it may be difficult to give a Pre to winners in countries outside the US. With that said, if we cannot procure a Pre for your carrier, then we will find another prize of equivalent value.
• The obvious…this contest is void where prohibited by law and all winners are responsible for any taxes.
• – UPDATE — We encourage the ambitious out there to submit as many entries as they want, but you can only win once!