Reported by John Raul Joven II

We didn’t release an episode last month because of the
HP contest in YouTube where your tech news anchor was one of the entrants. We understand that many events took place during our absence.

To bridge our hiatus, we’re going to review the top headlines per week during the month of September.

September First Week

September 1: Ireland’s largest internet provider, Eircom, officially blocked access of the Pirate Bay website. September 3: Acer announced Aspire Revo 3600, which will pack a dual-core Intel Atom 330 on the Nvidia Ion Chipset.

September Second Week

September 7: Asus announced to launch a dual-screen e-reader later this year.
September 10: AMD unveils AMD vision branding for AMD-powered notebook systems.

September Third Week

September 14: After 7 years, IEEE 802.11n wireless network protocol is finalized.
September 15: HP announced Envy notebooks series, dubbed as “dream machines.”
September 17: Survey revealed that Bing grabbed 10% of the search market in August 2009.
September 18: Microsoft confirmed that SP3 will be the last service pack for Windows XP.

September Fourth Week

September 22: AMD confirmed upcoming six-core “Thuban” desktop CPUs.
September 23: Intel introduced Core i7 Mobile CPU and Core i7 Mobile CPU Extreme edition.
September 24: HP offered the first Ion LE-based netbook with its HP Mini 311.

September Final Week

September 28: Microsoft UK spokesperson revealed that all Windows 7 editions can run on netbooks.
September 29: Microsoft released the final version of Security Essentials, a free anti-virus software
available for download globally.
September 30: Symantec campaigns against free anti-virus.

HP YOU ON YOU ANNOUNCES CONTEST WINNERS
Reported by John Raul Joven II

On July 24, HP launched a video contest in YouTube called You on You Project that invited entrants from around the world to express themselves in 60 seconds with one major rule: they can’t show their faces.

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.

TECH CONCLAVE WINS HP CONTEST
Reported by John Raul Joven II

In the last Tech Conclave video I released I asked
you guys to vote and campaign for my video entry
for the HP You on You Project contest.

I want to tell you that I was completely overwhelmed
with all your support that I received.

The votes you cast, all the time you spent to embed my video on your Facebook accounts and any social network and campaigned for it nearly every day for one and a half weeks, the time and efforts you spent in creating support videos and broadcast messages on Twitter asking your own audience to vote for my video… These are winning acts I will always remember and never forget for life.

Though I’m very happy that our video was included in the Top 100 prizes, I strongly believe — based on the amount of support you expressed that I personally saw in the past weeks — that we deserved a better outcome of the contest. Since that never happened, I want to reciprocate you guys with this “thank you”
video that I made for your continued patronage to me and to our show, the Tech Conclave.

GEEK OF THE WEEK: ANOUAR ABDELALI
Reported by John Raul Joven II

Our geek of the week for episode 12 is Anouar Abdelali, a marketer geek from the Kingdom of Morocco.

John: Who is Anouar in online and real world?
Anouar: First of all my name is Anouar Abdelali and I’m from Morocco. Offline, I’m a civil engineer, but actually I never worked a day in my life in this field. The reason why is that two years ago I stumbled on a site talking about making money online. So, this is my first contact with online business, SEO, video marketing, and all Internet marketing stuff. So online I’m an Internet marketer, and now I’m focusing all my energy on affiliate marketing business model, and I’m also interested in viral marketing.

Anouar Abdelali’s twitter account:
http://www.twitter.com/aanouar

If you have questions, suggestions or comments about this episode, email me at questions (at) techconclave (dot) com. And don’t forget to visit our website: it’s http://www.techconclave.com.

And to report for our fund raising: as of October 12, 2009, we have raised $321 or that’s equivalent to 16% of our total goal which is $2000 to get a new rig for Tech Conclave by December.

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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.

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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.

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