Oooo, I have exciting news! what started with a ponder on a wander by the river months ago has turned into something that has kept me up late at night for the past week. You see, I really like to run contests. I like the excitement it causes and I really like the interaction it creates. I want to take it to the next level. Just you wait until you see what I have got in store this weekend!

All I can say now is that real prizes and real money will be available to anyone and everyone who can use a mouse or cursor keys. All you need is a browser and internet connection. Hell, you don’t even need to register to enter. You will even have the chance to win real prizes by giving your own readers something really fun to do while they’re still on your blog, they can win prizes too and here’s the thing… if they win, so do you!

The site is called imgames.co.uk and it’s all ready to rock and roll, I’m just waiting for the nameservers around the globe to catch up with the change and it’ll be all on a dedicated server ready for the weekend. I hope you get a chance to see what I’ve got in store and come and pay a visit here or there on Saturday to see what has made me so red-eyed for the past week!

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It looks like uVme have been updating the games again. One thing to change is the power meter functionality of the darts game. Whereas before it would always start at the top and move down, it now starts at a different position. This takes away the problem of someone using a click recorder to play back the perfect click.

After much free playing I have found a way to get a 4 dart finish (which to my disgust has already been found and posted about months ago! lol)

I used to think getting up to 5 and then doing a treble 6 to take you to 19 was the way but, noooo. There’s a 4 dart finish possible and given enough practice you’ll be scoring in the 60,000 mark in no time!

see after the break for the video.

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Just a little update on how things are going in FiddyP land…

I have been taken on as a director in another company which splits me up even more so I have been unable to put much time into new tutorials for here. I have tried to keep up with the comments and do visit the blogroll a couple times per week (sorry I can’t comment most times everyone!). I’ll be making a post or two about what I’ve been doing commercially when the projects are at the 60% and beyond stage.

Contests

These are easy to post and pretty easy to manage so we’ll keep up with them! There seems to be a regular supply of Euromillions rollovers so I will keep the contest to win the Vmoda headphones for each rollover that happens. They only run for a few days and the winner is the person who successfully picks both lucky star numbers in the comment of the post.

I do have some fantastic plans for a contest that will be unlike (m)any other(s). Keep an eye out for that, I came up with the idea a while ago and it’s only now that I have the wonga to throw at it. It’s gonna be great!

uVme

I have had some fun working out some strategies for the different uVme games. I created a simple splash page for my imgames website which will be pointed to from a few different flash game type sites and sources. I like to have a quick go on darts or sudoku as a free game when I get a few minutes and see if I can send a challenge to any new player signups.

I will be offering a free fiver to people that join through my link soon. The idea is, you sign up and credit your account with a fiver (dollars, pounds or euros) and when you create a fiver worth of play then I send you your fiver back so you don’t actually have to spend the whole fiver, just create a fiver’s worth of play (if you play 10 games at 1/2 a $/£/E and win every one of them, you’ll have 7.50 $/£/E PLUS another 5 $/£/E)

Shop

The FiddyP postage shop should be getting some more listings soon too, I have a fair bit of stock to shift and as soon as I get a half a minute I’ll start putting item descriptions up. There will be an affiliate option too so you can link to the shop and get 15% commission on everything someone buys after using your link!

If there’s anything else you’d like to see here just leave a comment….

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Here’s a sneak preview of the standalone messenger that is soon to be released by uVme, I’ve been given advance notice of it’s features in readiness for the launch of the company on 21st January 2008.

uVme is going to rock the world of networking and social marketing, there has been a huge effort to get this thing working. It was conceptualized over 2 years ago by Tom Brodie and Len Fitzgerald, the founders of VWD. I am really looking forward to the launch! the games are great fun and easy to play, I will have the opportunity to offer another 3 people a preview of these games this weekend. (if you were one of the lucky preview people last weekend, you can now invite 3 of your friends to preview the games too by logging in to your site on Friday and adding their details).

If you’d like a preview place for this weekend, just register here (for free) and let me know in the comments. If you get chosen, I’ll enter your details on the site tomorrow night and you’ll receive your access details soon after…

The Messenger

* It will be like MSN

* It will be Rich with Features

* It will connect with the .com and .biz sites

* It will allow you to connect via multiple connections

* It will be the First in our industry

* It will be the most dynamic tool you have

* It will take your business to a new level

* And it will be an incredible viral business tool!

Tom went over the numbers at the preview session..

The average person has around 50 contacts on their messenger (source: MSN)
If 30% of them just played games
..and 1 in 5 of them became an associate (you can register to be a uVme associate here)
..and that went down through 6 generations by those 3 chatting and playing games with their buddies
.. that would pay out over 3000 USD per week or a massive 160,000 USD a year!!! (converted from GBP at a rate of 2-1)

Now I don’t know about you, but, when I see numbers like that on a sales page or other promotional material, it doesn’t seem real! I have been to the leaders meeting (details here) and I’ve seen what the pay plan is. It’s awesome and totally geared around you helping others. They have taken the best bits from all the pay plans out there and combined it with a revolutionary new type of social product that will change the face of networking forever. (big words I know but, you’ll see!)

More messenger details

As you can see we have various tabs down the left hand side:

Roster List:
This is where you see your entire uVme organisation as well as all of your buddies from your other IM services (after you have imported them, which is very simple)

Games:
The available games we can all play

Add a contact:
Add a new person to your roster

Connections:
This is where you can connect with your other current Instant Messenger (IM) Services such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL IM and Google (you can add other services as they become available - like Skype)

Challenges - Tournaments - Messages - Alerts:
Self Explanatory

Prospecting Movie:
This will be a business movie to show your players the opportunity we all have with uVme. This movie will be a fantastic way of converting Players into Associates!!

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Here you can see how you can challenge multiple people at once..

Below we can see that there are multiple opportunities for the Player to become an Associate.. and by encouraging this, you will move up the qualification ladder and make even more cash.

Above is the interface you will have, to enable you to add new existing Instant Messenger contacts to your New uVme IM. This is designed to be a simple process - just username and Password.

I am sure you will agree that the new IM is a great tool, Instant Messaging is growing in popularity 2x faster than email - there are NO spam issues and you can offer live support to your people as well as challenging them to games therefore making more money and building your team..

Couple that with Online Skill Games, which in themselves are growing 4x faster than the internet its-self AND this is an Network Marketing business! Network Marketing has grown by 40% each year for the last 17 years!!

You can still register at the uVme site for free and there’s still time to put your name in the comments to be a beta tester, you get a starting bank of 20GBP and you can be from anywhere in the world…

I hope to see you on my ever expanding contacts list!

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I had to fit in some games playing this weekend! all part of work of course

uVme are trialling out their new games this weekend and I got invited to beta test them. They are good, better than I was expecting. The gameplay is good, back to the old days where gameplay was everything!

In case you don’t know, uVme is the company behind the next web revolution, namely 2.0, social networking and game playing. The whole thing revolves around being able to challenge someone to a simple game and you both wager 50p or more. The winner gets their wager back plus 50% and can go on and challenge more people.

It’s like msn game zone or King.com but with small wagers, there will be an integrated multi messenger application that can be accessed over the web and on the same page as the games so you can challenge anyone in your MSN, Yahoo, Googletalk, ICQ messengers to a game.

I will be able to invite 3 people to beta test the games next weekend, you get a starting bank of 20 and all you have to do is try and beat some people! There is talk of real prizes going to the best players and those that provide the valuable feedback that beta testing is for.

Here are some of the games I have just played:

Darts - uVme

I like this one, it’s a simple game. It’s ‘around the clock’ popular in pubs. You start at 1 and continue to try and hit the rest of the numbers in order, if you get a triple on one of the numbers you can miss a few, sometimes all the way up to 19 so you only need 20 and the bull. Points are awarded depending on how many darts you took, how much time was left, bonus hits.

You use the mouse to aim the cross-hairs and then click and hold the mouse button to see the line move up and down on the right, let go when the white bar is in the middle and you get exactly where the cross hair is. Sometimes you still hit the number if the white bar is one up or down from the center.

I played for Fiddy P (or 50 uk pence) , if my score ends up higher than the person I challenged then I get the moolah! (I lost though)

Bubble Trouble

Infuriating! One of those games that starts off looking easy, just keep the bubblel (under you mouse cursor) away from the mines and collect the power ups and avoid the red bubbles. You really do have to have your eyes everywhere to play this, it pissed me off! It reminded me of Geometry Wars on the Xbox. I was never good at that either!

21 Shots

This is a game that can be improved with practice. You get 21 shots at the basket from various positions, click the mouse at the required height, rotate the pointer to the direction you want and then click to build up the power and click to release.

I was rubbish the first few times I played it and then I managed to get used to what power is best and what arcs to choose, I did pretty well on my last game.

Those are just some of the games, it would take me ages to explain them all! I can forsee some people getting very very good at some of these games, you only have to try and play a new game on xbox live to see how good some people are at games. The best thing with this is you can challenge your friends so you’re not going to always have to beat the best to do well.

I am really looking forward to how this goes, I have a pretty extensive network already with elottery and it’s a certainty that plenty of them will take uVme further and pay to be an affiliate so they can then earn a commission on every single play that their site and team generates.

You can still join for free by clicking here, if you’re a member then you get a chance to get a password for the beta testing, once you’re done then you can invite 3 more people. I will have 3 invites to give so I need volunteers to do some beta testing next weekend…

can you play games well enough? these are simple enough flash games so if you’ve ever played one of them when stumble’ing then you’re good to go. Let me know in the comments if you have signed up for free using the link in this post and I’ll put you in the hat to get the beta testing access details.

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