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Check in on Whrrl at the Blissdom Conference to win big!

BlissDomHeaderWhrrl is very excited to support this week’s Blissdom Conference, put on by the lovely duo of Allison Worthington and Barbara Jones, held at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville.

In case you’re not familiar, Blissdom is a conference for women who “find and express their bliss by publishing online.” While the Whrrl crew can’t specifically make it out to Nashville this year, we still wanted to plan some fun things for the attendees. That’s right; we have a bag of tricks gifts up our sleeves. Literally.

We’re purchased a ton of items that we think you’d love – and laugh – about owning, and we’re going to give them away during the conference at random. Simply check in everywhere you go during Blissdom for a chance to win. Be sure to add #Blissdom tag and tweet your update. We’ll choose winners from Twitter at random and send a DM to the winner, so don’t forget to follow us on Twitter too!  We’ll be announcing what you won in the form of a riddle, and you won’t know what it is until you’ve picked up your prize from Whrrl Ambassador Jyl Johnson Pattee.

What are the prizes, you ask? Well, 25 lucky ladies will win items that can or might do the following: Spice up your marriage, make your Snuggie seem SO last year, launch the biggest idea since Google, make the man in your life’s HD TV look like chump change, shed hours off of time spent cooking Thanksgiving dinner every year, make Snookie jealous, and more…

To make your Whrrl experience at the conference even more special, there’s a custom Blissdom Society we created for the 2010 attendees. Just check into two of the following places, and you’re in!

  1. Blissdom Opening Night Party at Opryland
  2. Fuse
  3. Jack Daniels Saloon
  4. Volare
  5. Soles4Souls Dropoff (one special prize for the check ins here!)

Three lucky Blissdom Society ladies will be the winner of one of the seriously coolest tech gadgets – the Powermat (a wireless charging station & battery cover valued at approximately $150), which was listed as one of the five best products at CES this year!  So what are you waiting for? Check in for a chance to win! We’ll notify who the winners are on Friday evening via Whrrl, and once again, you can pick up your prize from Jyl.

We can’t wait to “virtually” share in the fun with you this year!

Blissfully Yours,

The Whrrl Team

Got the best cheeseburger story? Let’s hear it!

Whrrl Cheeseburger Story Contest

You crave them, drool over them, and hunt down the biggest and best ones you can find…everyone loves a good cheeseburger. No matter what type, cheeseburgers symbolize summertime and we want to hear your best story.

You can tell your #cheeseburger story from the Web at http://whrrl.com/ (new!) or create it on-the-go from your phone. The winner will be chosen and announced by celebrity chef Richard Blais The winner will receive a Coleman Roadtrip Grill or a new Kodak HD camera.

Prizes

The Contest begins today and ends on August 23, 2009.

To enter, tell a creative story about your favorite cheeseburger and share it on Whrrl and Twitter. Just make sure “#cheeseburger” is somewhere in your story. With Whrrl’s new search capabilities, you can check out your competition by searching
#cheeseburger
from the iPhone app or on the Web!

We embarked on a Seattle #cheeseburger hunt to get your creative juices flowing. Check out our stories here.

Richard BlaisRichard recently opened Flip Burger Boutique in Atlanta, GA. See his behind the scenes story here.

Get more contest information here.

Contest rules and regulations

Nominate Whrrl for The Crunchies!

Popular tech blogs GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch are banding together to celebrate “what went right in 2008″ with the 2008 Crunchies, which they describe as “our sometimes kitschy and irreverent awards ceremony”.

2008 has been a great year for us here at Pelago, and you can nominate Whrrl for the Best Mobile Award today!

Click the image below to be taken to the nominations page, and remember you can vote once a day until November 30th.