Tiancheng Lou of China, code-named ACRush, won Google's Code Jam for the 2nd straight year!

Cool AppEngine/Twillio app won Audrey Roy $1,000 in AppEngine credits in this week's Twilio contents

Ning is holding an Open Social app competition with $10,000 in prizes.

Rails programming contest - just completed. The list of winners are here.

$50,000 business plan contest. Deadline 10/28/07.

Quoted: Online shopping for Startup Challenge from a great selection of Help; Startup Project, AWS home page, Make Money home page, FAQ, Confirmation, Prizes, Rules & more at everyday low prices.

Here's the final cut of the Google GMail video contest. There are so many creative entries here, with videos featuring people from all around the world (see the map on this page).

Just listened to this week's This American Life - Starlee Kine, a writer, not a musician, decides it's theraputic to write a "break-up" song; and even gets to talk to Phil Collins about it. Great story - and her song has some promising lyrics.

NPR is hosting a contest to remix or create other performances of her song. Contest submission date: Sept 30, 2007.

Video submission deadline: August 13th.

Quoted: Help us imagine how an email message travels around the world. Take a look at the collaborative video we started, and then film what happens next. We'll rotate a selection of the clips we receive on this page, and add the best ones to the video. The final video will be featured on the Gmail homepage and seen by users worldwide.

Vote for my review (and sign up for shelfari) so I can win a signed copy of Deathly Hallows. Deadline is 2 days from now.