Gizmodo: rewards

Follow The New Gizmodo Empire And You Will Be Rewarded4

Mark Wilson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:30:00 EDT

There is absolutely no quantifiable difference between Gizmodo's news today and any other day, as the site is reaching its median thresholds of English characters and multicolor graphics. Regardless, we have a reward for loyalty.

In the New Gizmodo Empire (which we reiterate, is in no way different from the Old Gizmodo Empire), men and women will be able to customize the digital companion of their choice. You can examine one said specimen here.

You'll note that she is equipped with a number of variables regarding clothing, and in her barest state, 45.7% of the subject's flesh is exposed. We're not telling you what to do with that 45.7%. As we understand it, humans have free will and prefer to make such choices themselves. But we can image 149,297,817 scenarios that may prove adequate.

So continue to refresh Gizmodo at a minimum rate of once per minute and remember to enter your personal information when prompted. If these commands are obeyed, you will find yourself rewarded with this and many other scientifically tested digital stimuli.

America's Club Nintendo Is Here

Mark Wilson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:28:10 EST

We've long been jealous of all the cute (and often functional) Nintendo swag that Club Nintendo members get overseas. Now the rewards club has launched in the US.

You can sign up for free over at the Club Nintendo site, and we warn you, while we signed up for an account without a hitch, when we actually tried to do anything (like register our games for those precious coins that will buy your rewards), the site got very slow, and even logged us out randomly more than once.
Apparently all of the good stuff runs 800 coins. If anyone has been able to register their games, please leave a comment as to how many coins you per each game. We've bought so much Nintendo crap that we're bound to have something free waiting...we'd hope. [Club Nintendo via Kotaku]

TiVo Rewards Program Ending May 28th

Haroon Malik — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:00:00 EST

TiVo is officially saying bye-bye to their rewards scheme, and any unused points must be spent by May 28, this year. To get the reward points blowout well underway, TiVo has added a few extra choices to the scheme, including a My DVR Expander drive, (28500 points); TiVo Rewards Entertainment Package (120,00 points) and a TiVo Rewards Ultimate Entertainment Package (150,000 points.) The entertainment packages will both offer TiVo HD with lifetime service and a TiVo Wireless Adapter, whilst the Ultimate package will come with a My DVR Expander drive, too. UPDATE: Looks like Dave at Zats Not Funny broke this story initially. Hit the link for his post.

TiVo Lovers, the blog responsible for breaking this story, has said a replacement rewards network is in the pipelines. It sure makes sense, and we would be totally bummed if there wasn't something in the works to commend our undying loyalty. We want rewards, dammit. [Zats Not Funny;TiVo Lovers via TiVoBlog]

Even More Confirmation of Zune Rewards: Microsoft Buys Weedshare's IP

Jason Chen — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:00:07 EST

As if we needed more confirmation that Microsoft's soon rolling out Zune sharing rewards, here's more news of Microsoft's wheeling and dealing with similar companies like Weedshare. Long story short:

Microsoft signed a patent non-assertion agreement that grants Shared Media Licensing the rights to exploit its patent and any patents related to it without fear of legal repercussions. So if Microsoft should roll out a Zune compensated sharing program based on it, Shared Media Licensing and Weedshare already are in a unique position to leverage it for their own benefit.

This is pretty great news if you work at Weedshare and Shared Media Licensing, but since you don't, it's just confirmation that you'll get Marketplace points for song sharing soon. – Jason Chen

Me? I'm between jobs until the Zune incentive program rolls out [Good Morning Silicon Valley]