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Look out for the iPhone review by Kuli, winner of the first British iPhone Giveaway later on this week.

He will actually be posting it on here himself, complete with pictures, which is pretty exciting.

Look out for more news on gadget giveaways…

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This post will come as no surprise as I have hinted several times that I am now looking to run future online giveaways on the Real Fresh TV site after the fantastic success of the first iPhone giveaway, flaws and all…

First, thanks again to Imran who left an insightful comment suggesting I look at running giveaways as a revenue earner for the site. He even went as far as suggesting that they may be better than Google AdSense.

Judging by anecdotal evidence on AdSense earnings on the vast majority of blogs, he is probably right.

Well, Imran, like minds think alike, as they say…

Whilst keeping an eye on votes as they came in for the iPhone giveaway on Saturday, it dawned on me that the real value of the iPhone giveaway has been the engagement shown by entrants as the competition progressed.

I have been amazed by people’s involvement with the giveaway, even after they made their entries.

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Thanks so much to everyone who entered the first British iPhone giveaway.

Finally, fifteen days after the competition started, I’m pleased to announce we have a winner!

Congratulations to Kuli for winning the first British iPhone Giveaway!

I had planned to announce the winner at 9:00AM but as Sukey rightly pointed out, I need to do so earlier as people still seem to be voting even though the deadline has now passed.

Here’s how the leaderboard looked at 00:02AM GMT, Monday 19th November:

1st | Kuli | Monkey | 445 votes

2nd | Joe Akers | Peep show 424 votes

3rd | Imran | The A Team 74 votes

4th | Lunny | Lost 23 votes

5th | Mr Singh | Only Fools & Horses 4 votes

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There’s less than fifteen minutes to go before the deadline for the first British iPhone giveaway and it’s apparent that this giveaway, even with its ups and downs has gripped the imagination.

I will be writing a lengthy ‘post giveaway review’ tomorrow highlighting some interesting facts and figures from the competition.

For now, I’m updating the ‘leaderboard’ with a summary of the votes so far:

1st | Kuli | Monkey | 428 votes

2nd | Joe Akers | Peep show 404 votes

3rd | Imran | The A Team 74 votes

4th | Lunny | Lost 21 votes

5th | Mr Singh | Only Fools & Horses 4 votes

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Image courtesy of T3

Now we’re cooking…

Competition in the first British iPhone giveaway is hotting up as the deadline approaches.

In the running so far we have:

1st | Kuli | Monkey | 86 votes

2nd | Joe Akers | Peep show 65 votes

3rd | Imran | The A Team 16 votes

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Most of you will now know that today’s voting mishap has been resolved and that the deadline for the iPhone giveaway has been extended for the last time to midnight on Sunday to accommodate it.

For those unaware, my web developer inadvertently broke the voting system for a few hours this afternoon when he uploaded the changes I requested back on Tuesday (he has been having email problems), oblivious to the fact that I had already fixed the problems with voting earlier this week.

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Arrghhhh, I can’t take much more of this!!!

Apologies for those who weren’t able to vote for a few hours today.

My web developer, who has been off email for the last few days finally received the frantic email I sent him on Tuesday and made the modifications to the Comment Karma plugin I suggested back then.

Obviously, this broke Comment Karma and set the voting system back to the no-voting-state we had all day Wednesday and most of Thursday.

I’ve fixed it by uploading the fix I wrote yesterday so you should be able to vote again.

Please resume voting.

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Most of you reading this are aware that the first British iPhone giveaway has been beset with problems with unscrupulous online voting.

Basically, because Comment Karma, the voting system used, allowed either positive or negative votes to be made for each entry, it was possible to vote down entries as they were made.

It meant that at one stage, the ‘winning entry’ was technically the least liked TV show suggested.

To catch up on events as they unfolded, here’s a summary. You can also read all the daily updates by clicking on the iPhone tag.

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Here’s a summary of events as they unfolded, unscrupulous votes and all, in the social media soap opera that is the first British iPhone giveaway. You can also read all the daily updates by clicking on the iPhone tag.

In essence, because the voting system used, Comment Karma, allowed either positive or negative votes to be made for each entry, it was possible to vote down entries as they were made.

This meant that as the giveaway progressed, most entries accumulated negative votes because some entrants(?) were maliciously voting them down.

As the second deadline for the competition approached (I first extended it to allow people to enter up till the Monday after the original deadline: iPhone launch day UK), I initially decided to scrap the voting idea.

The plan was to choose a random winner from the comments entered, much like Engadget and TechCrunch do with their giveaways.

However, Imran pointed out that it would be wiser to only enable positive votes for each comment.

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Voting now fixed!

Thanks for your patience.

All previous votes in the iPhone giveaway have been reset to 0, levelling the playing field for everyone who has entered so far.

It is now impossible to vote down entries.

So… it’s back on…

You can still enter the first British iPhone giveaway and suggest the TV show you would most like to watch on an iPhone.

Each suggestion is up for the public vote.

The TV show with the most votes at 23:59 GMT on Friday 16th November wins.

Good luck!

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