A common pastime for web surfers is joining free contests in which all types of items can be won. The web brought with it new potential for companies to make contact with their consumers past, now and in the future, by setting up stunts such as free to enter giveaways, contests and other self-propelling marketing opportunities. Commonly, social connections sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have been used to push the prize draws, and even those business targetted sites such as APSense have been exploited. For ages before the popularity of the net contests were run by magazines and via the postal system (many of these are still happening today). In the last few years though, staging these pr stunts on the net has significantly reduced operating costs. Without looking too hard, ... more ...