• TECH NEWS HEADLINES IN SEPTEMBER 2009
  Reported by John Raul Joven II
• HP YOU ON YOU ANNOUNCES CONTEST WINNERS
  Reported by John Raul Joven II
• TECH CONCLAVE WINS HP CONTEST
  Reported by John Raul Joven II
• GEEK OF THE WEEK: ANOUAR ABDELALI
  Reported by John Raul Joven II

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From Tech Conclave Virtual Newscenter, this is John Raul, your tech news anchor, and this is the episode 12 of Tech Conclave. It’s good to be a geek.

Of more than 1,900 eligible entries received by HP and a series of weekly judging and user-voting, only a handful of entrants made it to top prizes when HP announced the winners on September 21, 2009.

One of them is a video called “Life is My Adventure” by Lucas Ridley, the grand prize winner of the contest. According to HP, the video stood out for how the said entrant communicated his passion for hang-gliding in creative, original and expressive ways.

As the grand winner of the contest, Ridley received a tribute from Grammy-nominated artist Kenna and won $40,000 cash grand prize.

The second place prize of $20,000 was awarded to a video entitled “My Utopia” by P.J. Liguori of United Kingdom, and the third place prize of $15,000 went to a video called “Make It Happen” by Nigel Joseph Anthony of India.

The YouTube community was also given a chance to vote for top three videos to win the Community Awards. During the culmination of the contest, Tim Chantarangsu’s “You on You on Me” video hailed superior and received the prize of $15,000. Two other entrants also won the second and third place prizes of $7,500 and $2,500 respectively.

The You on You Project was administrated by Marden Kane and was a viral extension of HP’s award-winning “The PC is Personal Again” campaign.

Click here to view the full lists of contest winners for the HP You on You Project contest.

Another Update:

On September 30, 2009, our HP You on You entry username "anmjoven" was posted as one of the Top 100 Community Award prize winners. Thanks if you have voted, we’ll get a shiny new HP laptop. Unfortunately, it may not be a big help with our computing needs for the show because the laptop is really configured at minimum. Please note that you can still participate with our fund raising for a new Tech Conclave computer.

Update:

On September 16, 2009, we received a pleasing notification from HP’s official YouTube  account that the video entry shown in this blog post is a potential Community Award Winner! However, on September 21, 2009, HP revealed only the Grand Winners and the First Prize for the Community Award. The second prize and third prize winners, as well as the Top 100 Community Award prize winners, of the You on You contest are not revealed yet until this very moment — making hopeful entrants scratching their heads.

Your Tech Conclave tech news anchor, John Raul Joven II, joined an HP contest on YouTube called "You on You" to share his story in an effort to grab the chance to acquire better system for the show, improve his life and the people directly attached to him, and at the same time, to inspire some people.

If you love Tech Conclave, please express your support by leaving a comment, adding to your favorites, and rating 5-star to his video entry. The link to his video is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOPJbQhPBwY

Thank you very much.

Here’s the full script of his HP contest video entry.

Hi I’m John Raul and I’m a geek from the Philippines.
People say life is tougher here and they were right.

Back in my childhood, I experienced selling fruits in the streets and even massaged people’s feet to convince them to buy.

My parents told me if you want something you gotta work using your mind and heart. And so I did, I focused hard on my education until it brought me somewhere.

Last year I acquired my first room and my first bed after sleeping on the floor since 21 years of my life.

Thanks to my HP Compaq laptop, I was able to work at home, express my thoughts through my blog, and
innovate with my computer skills through coding, web designing, videos, and writing.

I even formed a tech news video podcast featuring all of my online friends.

I’d like to meet them and see the world someday and my hard work and computer would enable me just that.

I gotta be consistent in doing my best. I’m sure I’ll get there.

For now, I gotta enjoy my life here with the ducks, birds, roosters, the trees, and of course, my computer.

I’m John Raul, your friendly geek from the beautiful islands of the Philippines.