The sweepstakes' first prize winner will get two tickets to the Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY concert with the San Francisco Symphony July 18, 8pm at Davies Symphony Hall, an iPod touch (32 G) with the Smule applications Ocarina and Leaf Trombone, an Altec Lansing external speaker, a free night’s stay at The Westin St. Francis in San Francisco and a $50 Zipcar voucher.

There is a second prize as well, to enter the sweepstakes, join the San Francisco Symphony’s Social Network at http://community.sfsymphony.org and join the Smule Group sometime between June 30th and July 15th, 2009. Learn more about the contest in this video and on this page (prizes, terms and conditions).

After the concert, Smule will host an Ocarina Master Class, contest winners and other concert attendees will be invited to learn Ocarina techniques and play with other fellow musicians on their iPod Touches and iPhones in the first Ocarina Orchestra.

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• Send out a few interesting tweets related to your GizaPage or the social web and end it with a #gizapage.
• Contest Rules:
• 1. This contest runs from June 22, 2009 to June 28, 2009
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• 3. A winner will be selected via random drawing from all #gizapage tweets
• 4. We will announce the winner on @gizapage , the GizaPage blog and he/she will be notified via Twitter on June 29, 2009.

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Follow @gizapage to find out the winner of the Amazon Kindle and for conversations about social media.

We are partnering again with Fotki.com, the largest independent photo sharing site with 1,3 million users, to bring you another cool event: Fotki.com Feel Good party will be held today at Temple in San Francisco starting at 7 pm. Like last event, you will be able to enjoy professional photo shoot by Fotki.com photographers, and this time the party will have an environmental twist, you will have the opportunity to plant a tree with MokuGift enjoy Intuition sessions from Insight Salon and discover beauty Gifts from juice Beauty.

We had so much fun last time, the crowd was great and the fashion oriented activities brought a lot of energy, check out the pictures there.

Ubergizmo readers get a discount on the $10 entrance fee: you can buy the ticket at the door and by giving the password "Ubergizmo" you will only pay $5.

Join the Women 2.0 Startup Meetup on the heels of Mobile 2.0, Hit Barcelona, and 22@Barcelona. The event will be held Thursday, June 18th, 2009, 7pm - 9pm At GranFoc in Barcelona, Spain. Bring your innovative ideas and business cards to meet with local and visiting entrepreneurs.

This is an free event for both men and women, aspiring and current tech entrepreneurs. » Register here  for the June 18th Barcelona Startup Meetup!

Today, HP launched its Virtual Tech Museum and hope to build an extensive virtual vintage gadget collection with the help of all nostalgic geeks who did not get rid of their grand mother's computers and communication devices. To accelerate the creation of this online Museum, HP offers prizes for the “oldest device” and “most compelling personal story” in each country. The contest ends July 10th 2009, the regional Grand prize is a HP TouchSmart IQ500, other prizes are the HP Pocket Media Drive PD3200 and the HP Mini 110. When you compare the HP Mini 110 to the "Integral Computer" in the picture (25 pounds, 7x13 inches!), it gets scary... especially when you look at the performances (5 MB RAM!).

Deadline to apply has been extended to March 25, 2009

Innovate! Europe is a competition program organized by Guide Wire Group to identify the most promising European startups and help them accelerate their introduction to the global market. During the talent selection process, the emerging technology companies will receive mentoring and promotion while competing against one another.

This program has a three steps process:

Step 1 - The Audition: apply online to go to a free Going Global Workshop (early 2009):

The most promising startups will be invited to Going Global Workshops where the Guidewire analysts will give feedback and help on their value propositions and pitches to best compete in fast-paced markets like Silicon Valley.

31 MARCH in Bern, Switzerland:

• Going Global workshop from 9:30 to 17:30 Apply now!
• Networking Meet-up at 18:00 (Co-hosted by Orrick & Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency CTI)

1 APRIL in Tel Aviv, Israel:

• Going Global workshop from 9:30 to 17:30 Apply now!
• Networking Meet-up at 18:00 (Co-hosted by Orrick)

3 APRIL in Berlin, Germany:

• Going Global workshop from 9:30 to 17:30 Apply now!
• Networking Meet-up at 18:00 (Co-hosted by Orrick and SAP)

6 APRIL in Paris, France:

• Going Global workshop from 9:30 to 17:30 Apply now!
• Networking Meet-up at 18:00 (Co-hosted by Orrick)

Going Global Workshops will be coming to Paris, Berlin and Bern in late-March and early April. Apply now and we’ll keep you posted on the dates. Application & attendance at the Going Global workshops are free, and companies can apply at http://www.innovate-events.com/apply1/.

 Continue to read about the program’s next steps after the jump.

Yesterday was the International Woman's Day and here is a great opportunity to honor it:

The third-annual Women 2.0 Pitch 2009: Startup Competition is open to early-stage ventures around the world, from high growth business ventures in web 2.0 to mobile and biotech, consumer clean tech to consumer hardware. Applying companies must be in beta-stage and have not received significant funding. Teams with at least one female in the founding team are invited to compete for a chance to win:

• One-on-one meeting with Michael Moritz from Sequoia Capital
• 3 months of office space and mentoring from Plug and Play Tech Center
• Marketing strategy from MWW Group
• Legal support from Pillsbury

Five startups will be selected to present on Pitch Night (May 7th, 2009). The winner gets a meeting with Michael Moritz. Go to this page to apply.

Ubergizmo is a media partner of eComm, the emerging communications conference. This leading-technology conference focuses on telecom, mobile and communications industry innovation.

On March 03-05, come with us at the San Francisco Airport Mariott to meet the thought-leaders, developers and executives and share about the future of communications technology, across the telecom and the internet spaces.

You can register directly to the conference with a special 20% discount offered to our readers, click here.

Read the Q&A with Voxeo's CEO Jonathan Taylor, and the Q&A with Karrie Karahalios eComm's blog.

Ubergizmo is a media partner of eComm, the emerging communications conference. This leading-technology conference focuses on telecom, mobile and communications industry innovation.

On March 03-05, come with us at the San Francisco Airport Mariott to meet the thought-leaders, developers and executives and share about the future of communications technology, across the telecom and the internet spaces. In addition, we obtained a free eComm 09 pass to give away to one of our "fans".

To participate, become a fan of Ubergizmo in Facebook and read the rules on our fan page.

The give away ends on Feb 23rd at noon (Pacific Time).

Read the Q&A with Tony Jebara, associate professor at Columbia University and the Q&A with Russ McGuire, VP of Strategy, Sprint, on eComm's blog.

You can also register directly to the conference with a special 20% discount offered to our readers, click here.

Ubergizmo is a media partner of eComm, the emerging communications conference. This leading-technology conference focuses on telecom, mobile and communications industry innovation.

On March 03-05, come with us at the San Francisco Airport Mariott to meet the thought-leaders, developers and executives and share about the future of communications technology, across the telecom and the internet spaces.

Register here .

Note: This post is an archive of the Live blogging session during Samsung's press conference at CES 2009, in Las Vegas. To see it from the start, go to the full post, start from the bottom of the post and make your way up.

Jan 7, 14:42 PT.

Best of show: Palm Pre

Palm had the most anticipated product announcement of the show, and did not disappoint. The Palm Pre is shaping up to be the most exciting phone of the first half of the year, although rumors have it that HTC is trying to catch up. Palm also had the best press event, closely followed by Samsung and Sony. Unlike iPhone-killer "duds" like the BlackBerry Storm and others, this is the first phone that can actually Challenge the iPhone on its turf. Challenges remain, such as getting developers, apps, app store but the foundation seems solid.

Our Palm Pre live coverage @ CES
Official event video from Palm (Flash, download), Product page  

The Samsung CES 2009 Press Conference is going to start in a few minutes. Head to Ubergizmo Live to tune in: live.ubergizmo.com (press refresh from time to time).