Giveaway of the Day – Turkish version

Hello everyone,
I`m glad to inform you that we keep adding new languages and new partners to our community.
Today we welcome our Turkish version and our new partner, CHIP Online, which will help us to maintain and develop GAOTD for Turkish-speaking visitors.

Slava and GAOTD team

“As the leading technology site of Turkey, CHIP Online is very happy to be a part of the Giveawayoftheday project. We believe that such international partnerships extend the horizon of the Internet projects and in today`s digital world, instead of language convergence (e.g. every site in English), divergence and providing content on national language will help users a lot. We also want to thank the folks at Giveawayoftheday for the wonderful system they put together. It was very easy – and painless for us to translate and implement this system. We hope that we will achieve fruitful results together, CHIP Online and Giveawayoftheday, as partners.”

Cenk Tarhan, MVP
CHIP Online

Monday morning news and questions – Giveaway@Mac? Can we do that?

Hello everyone,
Today I have some news for you and also I`m going to ask for help.

Well, Giveaway of the Day has been around for quite some time, and all this time we had emails coming and coming. Some of those emails were asking if there if we have plans to offer Mac OS-based version of our service and TBH we had none.
Mac OS X is a completely different world for us, and difficulties of starting Mac Giveaway of the Day were (and still are) significant, that`s why we tried to stick to Windows family.
Well, those emails kept coming and finally we decided to give the idea of Giveaway@Mac a second thought.

What does that mean? Basically, we will try and start this Mac version, but it will be a bit different from our regular versions. First of all, we would really need community help. You see, we can code the whole activation system anew, we can design a few additional pages and we can buy a few Macs (already did, actually), but that`s not going to be a Mac version of GAOTD but rather some frame for it.

What we lack at the moment and what we need help with is a Mac community here -both visitors and developers. We do not have contacts in the Mac world, so that`s someting I`m going to ask: do you have those? Do you know someone that uses Mac and could be interested in visiting our website? If yes, let him/her know.
Do you know a company or a developer that makes software for Mac OS? If yes, let him/her/them know about us.
We actually do check our software submit form, and we look thru our email boxes overloaded just like us.

Please also note that this Mac version won`t be Mac Giveaway of the Day immediately, let`s be realistic here: it`ll be Mac Giveaway of the Week then Mac Giveaway of the half-Week then Mac Giveaway of a few days…
/Lord Farquaad mode on:
…and so on and so forth. Some of your Macs may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
/Lord Farquaad mode off. I`m not THAT evil.
*evil grin*

Well, that`s all for now and let`s see what we can do together.

Yours,
Slava and GAOTD team