The world’s first internet balloon race
…written by Will and has 4 comments so far
We love to get involved with exciting and cutting edge internet stuff, so when we spotted that Orange were holding the first ever internet balloon race we decided to give our lungs a workout and get involved!
“What are you talking about?” I hear you cry! Well, some clever people at Poke have come up with a concept that has people travelling from website to website flying a virtual balloon. The further they soar the closer they get to winning a pretty luxurious trip to Ibiza with their buddies, worth around 18k – that’s an awful lot of ice creams!
Our blog is now part of that race! We haven’t been paid or anything, we just like to get involved with cool, innovative internet stuff.
You might have spotted it already if you knock around here from time to time, but floating around in the bottom left hand corner is a cute little orange balloon animal. This will now be one of the stops for hundreds of similar balloons. Great free advertising if you ask us! Other companies should start thinking more about actually involving people in their brand rather than simply pushing obnoxious banner and tower adverts upon us.
If you want to cheer our balloon (ingeniously named Engage!) along in the race click the flash widget below. Who knows, you may end up winning us a holiday!
Tags: balloon race, fun
Adventure Art Travel Says:
Hi there,
We are also in the race, although sadly lagging behind you. Our balloon is unimaginatively called AdventureArtTravel. I’m curious because we have also entered our site http://www.adventure-art-travel.co.uk into the race also, but so far haven’t seen any traffic to it from Orange when checking Google Analytics. Have you noticed any increase ?
Got to go, I have a balloon to catch
Adrian.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:24 pmWill Says:
It doesn’t look like your website was entered into the race… Perhaps it was left out somehow?
We have noticed an increase in traffic though. Not too much but definitely an increase.
Good luck,
June 27th, 2008 at 9:35 amWill
Paul Says:
This is NOT the first internet balloon race… It was originally conceived in 2006 by a student…
LIARS!
August 26th, 2008 at 1:49 pmWill Says:
You may be correct. However, lets see what this man has to say about the matter:
Apparently not very much… Mystery solved!
August 26th, 2008 at 2:48 pm