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title: "Winners: Web 2.0 Expo NY Competition"
date: 2008-08-07
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2008"
    url: "/tag/2008.md"
---

# Winners: Web 2.0 Expo NY Competition

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20090103011447im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/web20expo_logo.png)Earlier this week we [ran a competition](https://web.archive.org/web/20090103011447/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_meets_world_auction.php) for 2 full tickets to the [New York Web 2.0 Expo](https://web.archive.org/web/20090103011447/http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/content/home) conference 16-19 Sept. The tickets are valued at over $1000 each and we also have a consolation prize of a free Expo hall pass (value $100).

To be in to win one of the 3 prizes, we asked: for the [‘Web Meets World’ charity auction](https://web.archive.org/web/20090103011447/http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/content/auction) at the Web 2.0 Summit later this year (5-7 Nov), **what would YOU bid on that web celebrities could offer?** The 3 best answers, subjectively chosen by the RWW team, are printed below.

[Janni Black](https://web.archive.org/web/20090103011447/http://web20intheclassroom.blogspot.com/) (comment #19) wins one of the full passes, for this suggestion:

> “I’d bid to send three web celebrities on a week long trip to visit AIDS orphanges in Malawi, Africa, with the condition that they would write web articles about these two things upon their return.
> 
> A. Their experiences with the children and orphange operators while there.
> 
> B. Their ideas on how “Web 2.0″ can make a huge impact on really, really big problems like this.”

The second full pass goes to [Andraz Tori](https://web.archive.org/web/20090103011447/http://www.zemanta.com/blog) of Zemanta (comment #11):

> “I’d bid for very first versions of business plans of MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo, Google, WordPress, Skype, eBay, …
> 
> Comparing them with where they are now would be a fun and very very interesting reading!”

And for the consolation prize, we liked this suggestion by Alex Capece:

“A Metallica CD signed by Shawn Fanning.” (comment #37)

Congratulations to all of the above, we’ll be in contact by email regarding your prizes.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/080808_twitter_campaign_olympics.php))*