Betavine, a Vodafone Group R&D lab, is offering developers a chance to win £20,000* in a mobile widget competition.

Developers are invited to create widgets for the Opera for Mobile 9.5 platform, which is included on Nokia 6210, Nokia N78, Nokia N95 8gb and Nokia N96 devices.

Recources to get started

Have a look and use the following recources:

• Widgets SDK


• Opera Widgets forum


• Articles on mobile and cross-device development


• Widgets SDK tools


• Opera Dragonfly & Widget Emulator combo for debugging

Also check out Betavine's own "Get Started" page and the extensive Mobile Widgets User Experience Guidelines PDF document by Vodafone.

If this competition sounds like something for you, sign up at Betavine!

We want to see how many on-topic comments one blog post can generate. To help a bit with the motivation we also get some sweet hardware gear if you wish to help us reach that goal.

All you have to do is comment in this post what you love about Opera. It's that simple. Everyone who comments will be entered in a random drawing to win epic hardware gear from Steelseries, who has been so kind to provide us with the goodies.

Remember, this is about mass participation. We've never received so many comments in a single blog post before, so please help promote this on your blog and other Web sites.

You can win this:

• SteelSeries 5Hv2: One of the most popular gaming headsets on the planet.


• SteelSeries QcK Heavy: The mouse pads are made of high quality cloth material, providing a precise and consistent glide.


• SteelSeries Ikari Laser: The result of 15 months extensive research of ergonomics, technology, shape, motion, hand grip and play styles by gamers.


• SteelSeries 7G: Sets new industry standards for gaming keyboards by allowing users to perform the most detailed and advanced key combinations to date.


• SteelSeries iron.lady Siberia (Pink!): Developed in co-operation with professional gamers to ensure that the soundscape, specifications and comfort is suitable for long gaming sessions.


• SteelSeries iron.lady bundle (Also pink!): A really cool pink version of the Ikari Laser mouse with a matching surface pad.


• SteelSeries Siberia Full-size Headset (red): Red version of the pink Iron Lady Siberia headset.


• SteelSeries Siberia Neckband Headset: The first professional headset to fully cover the users' ears, adding new levels of comfort to audio products.


• SteelSeries Experience I-2 (white): Quite possibly the classiest mouse pad in the world and was designed for gamers, graphics artists and others who use a mouse a lot


• SteelSeries S&S: SteelSeries S&S is a mouse pad researched and developed in co-operation with SK Gaming, one of the biggest organisations in eSport.

Rules:

To participate you have to post your comment in the competition post over at My Opera!

There are not many other rules to follow, except that you have to comment what you love about Opera. We will remove double posting, spam, trolling or flaming. We think you get the picture.

This contest will run for at least one week. If we haven't reached 1001 comments by next Monday (Feb. 16th) the prizes will get burned. Well, not burned, but we need to see 1001 comments in order to activate the hardware prize giveaway galore!

Ok, comment on!

Yet another contest has come to an end and we are excited to present three lucky winners of our Dead Snow contest who had to answer three correct answers from the movie:

• What's the tagline of Dead Snow?
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• Correct answer: Ein! Zwei! Die!


• Who's the director of Dead Snow?


• Correct answer: Tommy Wirkola


• In a video clip, one of the actors is bitten by a zombie and is forced to amputate his:


• Correct answer: Arm

And our three lucky winners are:

1. Konya: Winner of Dead Snow headset + official poster from the movie!


2. Ace Jon: Winner of Opera swag + official poster from the movie!


3. missevilat: Winner of official movie poster!

Congratulations everyone! We hope you enjoyed our little contest!

An article by Dustin Wilson looks at how features implemented in Opera has been implemented in other browsers over the years — claiming to be first:

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