Bigger, Bolder & Better Apollo Cinema Rhyl

So a couple of weeks a go, I received a special invite from Alison Hogarth to attend a special evening at The Apollo Cinema Rhyl, how could I say no!

Last night was the night and arriving at the cinema at just gone 6PM and checking my name was down on the exclusive guest list, I was given a goody bag and went straight to the bar

Greeted With A Tasty Beverage

Entering the bar everyone was drinking champagne, so grabbed my flute and sat down to ponder what was happening for the evening, I must say I did feel a little under dressed for the occasion, but hey, I’m an almost famous blogger not a big shot business person
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Facebook and Google, both are trying very hard to pin down the popular micro blogging site Twitter. Twitter currently holds 300 million users and is still not match for Facebook’s 750 million users. In spite of the fact; both Google and Facebook are leaving no stone unturned to actually buy it.

The Twitter story

Twitter is an online social networking and micro blogging service. It allows its users to send and read text based tweets of up to 140 characters. Twitter was officially released in the July of 2006. Even after six years of its launch, all three of its founders, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, are still involved with the site’s development.
This has helped twitter to stay focused without losing sight of its original goals or without coming under the pressure of commercialization. But due to its astounding success others have definitely come under the pressure.
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As promised folks today is the day that I announce the winners of the Blazing Minds Birthday Bash Contest which has been running lately in celebration of the  blogs third birthday yesterday, so now it’s time to see who has one and what they have one.

Choosing The Winners

Over the time that the contest was running I took all the entrants and added their details and entries in to a database to keep a record of them, each entry was given a unique number and it’s this number that was used to pick the winners.

Then it was over to random.org to generate the numbers for the winners and their prizes this way the numbers were indeed chosen at random.

And The Winners Are

One Months Advertising Here On Blazing Minds:

@rickychewdotcom

One Months Business Membership to BlogEngage

@kayeshayne21

100 USD From @Bbrian017 from BlogEngage

@mani0993

50USD From Ileane from Basic Blog Tips

@DragonBlogger

25USD From Metallman

@DrRus

Congratulations To The Winners

So congratulations too all the winners and thank you to everyone taking part in the competition, I will be contacting the winners over the next couple of days with regards to your prizes.

Yes folks, today is the day that the Blazing Minds blog celebrates its third birthday today and with that we would like to thank everyone that has read, commented and shared not only my posts, but also the posts of some of the amazing guest bloggers that have written for the blog over the last three years.

Celebrating With A Birthday Contest

As a lot of you will have seen, some time back I started a competition to celebrate the blogs third birthday and now that the Birthday Bash Contest has come to an end I will be announcing the winners of the prizes tomorrow right here on Blazing Minds, but until then let’s just reminisce on the last three years.
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As Paul Ceglia sees it, the social media empire that is Facebook pretty much belongs to him.

For those who are not aware, Ceglia has been waging a legal war against the man most people recognize as the head of Facebook, Mark Zuckenberg. According to Ceglia, he, in fact, owns 85 percent of the company.

Now, several media sources are reporting that Ceglia has uprooted his family and himself from their New York home and moved to Galway, Ireland (Ceglia lived in Ireland for six years), citing too much attention and pressure living in the States. The move comes despite a scheduled court appearance from the man who claims to have been slandered by Zuckenberg.

So, is Ceglia’s U.S. departure really in the best interests of him and his family, or is to run away from a somewhat checkered past that has been receiving more scrutiny as of late?

As a little research of Ceglia shows, his past includes pleading guilty to possessing 400 grams of a controlled substance, and being charged (with his wife) on one count first-degree scheme to defraud and 12 counts of fourth-degree grand larceny in November 2009, as owners of Allegany Pellets LLC.

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Can an individual actually win the White House by running a campaign that gets its kick-start from Facebook?

In this social media age that we live in, spreading the word about one’s aspirations is not as difficult as it seems. The question begs, however, can one man become the 45^th President of the United States by using social media from a mobile home in a national par, spending his free time doing organic farming?

For those not aware, the man who shed tears when witnessing the sight of a double rainbow, Paul “Bear” Vasquez, is running to be the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Vasquez, running on the primary platform of “Emergency! Alternative Energy!” has about as much chance of winning the election as O.J. Simpson if he were in the race.

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Facebook has no doubt changed the way you do things. It’s certainly changed the way I procrastinate but thinking about it, it’s also had an effect on lots of other things like politics, travel and business.

Business Models:
Facebook games are either perceived as a fun and interactive way to relax, or as a source of procrastination and spam. There is no doubt however that businesses behind them have boomed. Letting users play a certain amount for free, but then charging for extra levels and features has been an enormously successful way to draw users in, yet it is contrary to any type of sales strategy to have been used in the past. This model has now been adapted for smart phone games to the same great effect. Of course, there are limits to which it can be applied; it would be hard to get a trial version of a pair of jeans free before buying the full package.

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