Last week, TechCrunch posted a video showing some really cool developing technology in the image resizing arena. There was a lot of oohing and ahhing.

This week, they followed up to point out an online demo that a reader named Patrick Swieskowski sent them. Although it’s obviously just in it’s beginning stages, he’s got something awesome brewing. I can’t wait to see how the final product works.

[via TechCrunch]

I love online contests. I’ve been naturally lucky in so many online, starting with a brief case I won from CDNow.com in 1995 or 1996. When I decided to throw a Win My Motorola Q Smartphone contest, I began to think about some of the contests I had participated in years ago. One involved getting an “I [heart] WWW” bumper sticker and wound up landing me a web development job.

Looking around today, I am reminded how much they still work to get people to your site and keep them coming back. This is so true, in fact, that there are blogs solely devoted to posting reviews of contests and they’re getting the traffic, too. Some contests offer links back to your site when you win. Others offer Plasma TVs, external hard drives, or even Motorola Q Phones. =)

Check out some of the contests mentioned at ContestBlogger.com and MyBlogContest.com.

Good Luck.

Because of the slow start (and a possible schedule conflict), I have decided to extend the Motorola Q Smartphone contest to October 1st.