Holy Shit its Swamble Time! So, yeh, its been 40+ weeks since the last update, so what. Here it is and its rockin. Over the weekend, we hooked into twitter. Now, life gets a bit more interesting. Here is how the twitter interaction works ..

1) Add your twitter screen name to your swamble profile
2) Follow swamble on twitter
3) post a tweet in this format ..
@whoever I’ll shave my head if you run down Market St. naked as a j- bird #swamble

any tweet that you send to Twitter with #swamble will show up in swamble. its that simple. so, go challenge your friends and the world! have fun with it!

Due to Twitter’s api limitations, it could take 5-10 minutes for your tweet to show up on swamble.

If you don’t have an account on swamble head over to http://swamble.com and we’ll send you an invite.

As you may recall from the most recent Swamble Newsletter, the Pro Football Swamble player with the best record from week 3’s round of football games would win some fresh, new pro football gear.

Well, week 3 has come to an end (with the defeat of the New Orleans Saints this past Monday night :( ) and the stats have been tallied. Congratulations, Patrick, you are the winner from week 3!

Plenty more football games, plenty more picks to be made and plenty more prizes to be won. The stats don’t lie, people, get your swamble on with Pro Football Swamble now!

Alrighty, my fellow Swamble folk, the Swamble Sweepstakes for the month of August have officially come to an end. First and foremost, thanks to all participants. As promised, Gerard and I have randomly picked some swamblers and will be sending them some new, tight Swamble Swag.

The lucky swamblers selected from the August Swamble Sweepstakes are: Faldo, Smokey, Mildog, mfizzle, Will, TrippleOG and markalopolis. Gerard and I are glad to see all of the creative activity this month and we are eager to see what else our fellow swamblers have in store for the future. Swamble on!

While attending BarCampBlock this past weekend in Palo Alto, Gerard led a 5 minute demo at Blue Chalk Cafe during which he initiated a new swamble titled, Taking pics at barcampblock?.

If you (or someone you know) has photographs from Bar Camp Block and would like the opportunity to participate in this swamble, upload your photo(s) to Flickr and, if you haven’t already, sign up for Swamble!

The lucky swambler with the most interesting photo from barcampblock posted on flickr by noon time (PST) this Thursday will be selected and awarded with the prize of dinner and drinks on us the next time he/she is in Vegas.

Let us know if you have any questions. We will announce the winner on Friday- Best of luck, may the best swambler win!

* Photo taken by Steve Rhodes

Apparently, we announced Swamble a bit too loud during our private beta and, thus, acted a little less than private so we will not be included in the final 20 of the TechCrunch20. It’s kind of a bummer to not be in the top 20 but, we will be at the conference in the demo pit. If you are going to be there, stop on by and say hello!

Yesterday, Mike Arrington wrote an article about Swamble over at TechCrunch. Thanks for the coverage Mike, we greatly appreciate it. In the last 36 hours or so, a couple hundred of the loyal TC readers have requested invites to swamble.
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Like we mentioned in our recent newsletter, Gerard and I have decided to pass on the joyful mood to our fellow swamblers with a Swamble Sweepstakes for the month of August where some lucky swamblers will win themselves some Swamble Swag. Any swambler who creates a swamble, comments on a swamble and/or accepts a swamble from August 4-31 will be entered for the sweepstakes.

At the end of the month, the random selections will be made and, come September 1st, the winners will be announced. Get on in and get your swamble on- you never know, you may win some free gear! And, as always, stay tuned and keep in touch as we continue to beef things up in Swamble Town. Swamble, are you in?

Hey there, fellow Swamblers, it’s Gerard and Scott, we’re back and, boy, do we have some super news to share. Swamble has been selected as one of the TechCrunch20 finalists for the TechCrunch20 Conference this coming September. Approximately 700 applicants from 26 different countries were submitted and about 100 TechCrunch20 finalists were chosen to move on to the final round of competition which will include a demo presentation along with an interview. Gerard and I are proud to be included amongst the finalists for the TechCrunch 20 Conference 2007 and we are eager to see what 20 companies will be selected over the next two weeks. Thanks, TechCrunch20.