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WIN a brand new NOKIA 5370 each week until 7 Feb, plus a US$1,000 Sweepstakes Grand Prize up for grabs too from mig33!

mig33 has just ushered in the New Year and along with it comes some great news for mig33 members. The mig33 US$1,000 sweepstake is back, with the addition of weekly back-to-back prizes for the next 4 weeks.

For those of you itching to get a new phone this year take this great opportunity as one of you will stand the chance to win a brand new Nokia 5730 Xpress Music drawn each week!

To enter, simply refer a new friend to mig33 to qualify as one entry.
You have until Sunday to enter, and a winner is drawn each Tuesday.

All entries during this time will qualify for the US$1,000 sweepstakes, drawn 7 Feb to end the competition. This is a chance not to be missed!

So get ready and gear up for this exciting month. You could be one of mig33’s lucky winners of a brand new phone, or the beaming winner of mig33’s sweepstakes cash prize!

Terms and Conditions

• Competition only open to all mig33 members with a registered and authenticated mobile number.
• Competition period is open from 11 January 2010 (GMT) to 7 February 2010 (GMT)
• For every new referral the mig33 user successfully refers and activates to mig33 during the promotion, they qualify as one entry for the various draws, across the specified time periods. There is no limit to the number of entries permitted.
• There are a series of four weekly prizes, plus one big prize are the details are outlined below:

o Draw 1 – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music

Entries from Monday 11 Jan – Sunday 17 Jan 2010, GMT
Drawn Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 GMT

o Draw 2 – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music

Entries from Monday 18 Jan – Sunday 24 Jan 2010, GMT
Drawn Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 GMT

o Draw 3 – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music

Entries from Monday 25 Jan – Sunday 31 Jan 2010, GMT
Drawn Tuesday 2 Feb 2010 GMT

o Draw 4 – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music

Entries from Monday 1 Feb – Sunday 7 Feb 2010, GMT
Drawn Tuesday 9 Feb 2010 GMT

o Big Prize – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music and $1,000 cash!

Entries from Mon 11 Jan – Sun 7 Feb
Drawn Tuesday 9 Feb GMT

• mig33 user must use ‘Invite Friend’ feature on their mobile account, to make the referral.
• Each friend referred must successfully register and activate their account with mig33, to be counted as one friend referred. An activated user is one where the mobile phone number has been authenticated.
• The prizes are not transferable.
• The prizewinners will be announced in the ‘Live Draw’ chat stadium according to the schedule above. The prizewinners will be contacted via their registered mobile number with mig33. The winner will be drawn randomly and the allocation of the prizes is at the sole discretion of mig33. The winner will be communicated within mig33. The winner’s name and details may be used for promotional purposes.
• Competition is not open to mig33 members based in the USA.

From the mig33 Team, Merry Christmas!

From humble beginnings in 2005 in Perth, Western Australia, through to Silicon Valley, California, and now to Singapore, I’m as excited as ever to be here at mig33.

We want to become the Tencent QQ for the rest of the world.  Tencent is the third largest internet company in the world and is based in china.  Focussed initially around chat and chatrooms, they’ve extended their proposition to a variety of social networking features centered around groups and avatars, and supported by games, news and entertainment.  It is a massive company that supports close to 500m active users and is synonymous with the internet in China.  That’s the sort of company we want to be.

You can see that from our recent direction.  Understanding that we need to be closer to our customers (mostly in Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe), we’ve moved the company from Silicon Valley to Singapore, whilst retaining a smaller but important presence still in California.  We’ve made some progress in changing the way chatrooms work, introduced migLevels, re-energised virtual gifts, more content, and delivered our first round of social games.

Each week, we’ve been supporting mig33 user events in a wide range of countries, culminating in an event in Indonesia with close to 6,000 people attending.  We’re currently trialing our ‘social networking services’ release and testing out our new systems architecture, with a view of a much larger set of products and services releases in January and February.  These will include more changes to the way profiles, chatrooms and user groups work, along with a raft of new games both in chatrooms and through our pagelet technology.  Admins and Merchants will continue to play important but very different roles in the community and we have plans for both.  And during the first quarter of 2010, we will deliver an Avatar system to our community.

All this is being done as a valuable service to our community of over 35m registered users, by our team spread across several countries (Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Indonesia, and India), and supported by our board and shareholders.

There are many many more things planned.   2010 is going to be an exciting year.

Merry Christmas once again.  Keep on Migging!

[Written by Steven Goh, Co-founder of mig33]

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