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Tampa, The epicenter of foursquare day (#4sqday), will be erupting with foursquare fun-ness! Search & Social has decided to sponsor this event today (April 16th) by donating a free ticket to be raffled off for our Spring Summit ! We donated the largest prize there. You can obtain raffle tickets by either checking in at the event or doing the puzzle piece search throughout town. The Foursquare day idea got kick started by optometrist and social media lover  Nate Bonilla-Warford . Once his idea was thrown out into the internet world, it was tossed around and mulled over by many people, until he met with a series of key players who helped bring his idea to a reality. Brought to you in part as well by Girls in Tech and Creative Loafing , this fun filled social media holiday will be taking place all around town. If you want to find and support a local business that’s participating with awesome 4sqday deals, you can find them on the 4sqday Tampa page . One thing that we’re trying to do, in order to support the city of Tampa and let everyone know we’re a big town with a little name, is to attempt to get the “Super Swarm” badge by having 250+ people check in to our swarm event. The swarm event is from 6-9PM tonight (Friday, April 16th) is located at the Hyatt @ 211 North Tampa Street. Tampa, FL 33602. There are numerous fun filled challenges going on, so checkout the 4sqday Puzzle Hunt going on, to win a raffle ticket, and make sure you check-in to the Swarm Event! Don’t worry if you can’t play with puzzle piece game… by checking in to the swarm event tonight you’ll be eligible for a raffle ticket too! Thao and I (from search & social) will be doing check-ins, so if you decide to come by, say hi! You can also follow the Creative Loafing Street Team on twitter, @cl_streetteam , because if you can find them, they’ll be giving away fun stuff! As always, you can follow me @esvienne and Thao Tran @Thaott .   Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Search & Social-Largest Sponsor of Foursquare Day

Have you ever wanted to attend a premier industry event as a VIP, get inside secrets from industry leaders, and get treated like a rockstar ? Well this week Search & Social are giving you several ways to make this a reality. For the launch of the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit (formerly known as IM Spring Break), the organizers are giving you all kinds of ways to attend the event on their dime. The biggest one is going to be VIP package to the event. One FREE pass to the Search & Social Spring Summit Complimentary airfare to and from Tampa, FL Paid hotel accommodations during Search & Social Spring Summit $500 in spending money All of these prizes, the entire VIP Trip, is valued at $2,000! To enter, you must visit our Search & Social VIP Contest . Once you sign up you will be sent a promotion code, and whoever gets the most people to sign up for the event using their code gets the VIP prize. That’s it! No fluff. Use your mad skills as an internet marketing guru to kill the competition, and earn your VIP pass to one of the best marketing events that took place last year. We will fly you into Tampa, FL, where the nearby beaches are always featured on the Travel Channel and are listed as the top beaches in the United States. You will check in to the Doubletree Guest Suites that is right on the water and five minutes from the airport. With $500 in spending money , you can save it and put it in the bank, spend it at Mons Venus or go to the two nearby malls 2.8 miles from the hotel. The most important part of the package is your pass to the summit. This includes getting access into the eight speaker sessions, networking with experts and businesses from across the country, an invitation to the VIP party, admission to casino night and calypso night, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on both days of the conference. The VIP Trip will be sponsored by Second Step Search , an SEO workflow solution, and Search & Social . The contest starts today and will go on until April 15, 2010. Enter to win and see what it feels like to receive VIP treatment from Search & Social. You might even find yourself having your own SEOtini girl serving you lunch for the day. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Win a VIP Trip to Search & Social Spring Summit

It’s that time of the year again folks, with the 82nd Academy Awards happens tonight in LA. According to reports, this year’s Oscar academy awards will be much more exciting than last year, with a record 10 nominations for Best Picture and a hosting lineup of Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. But if you live in New York, you may be missing this year’s Academy Awards (more info below)! Will Avatar, a movie that was named after something almost everyone in social media and search has on their Twitter profile, forum page or blog, take the big Oscar prize for Best Picture? Or will Hurt Locker run away with the Oscar? And what about Precious? Isn’t about time the cast & crew from Precious win something besides Monique’? Watch live streaming video from theoscars at livestream.com ABC will be airing the ceremonies on TV starting 8 p.m. EST (5 pm for the Left Coast), and E! Online will be doing their Live from the Red Carpet (something the wife will make me switch over to around 5pm to catch Jay Emanuel). But if you live in NEW YORK where ABC may not be available on Cablevision , you are outside of the US and can’t catch it on TV OR prefer to watch the Academy Awards on your laptop, we’ve got several good places for you  to watch it online. With 3.1 Million New Yorkers perhaps shut out of the Oscars on ABC, here are the top places to catch the Academy Awards 2010 Online : Oscar.com – ABC got the event covered with its official live streaming of the Academy Awards Online 2010. Right TV – This site has a dedicatd page that will let you watch the Oscars. Watch Oscars 2010 Online – Another unofficial site but will stream the  Academy Awards Online 2010 and will let you watch the gig for free. Hulu.com – You will definitely find some updated clips of the Oscars ceremonies from Hulu. TVGuide – Of course, TV Guide will also be webcasting the event, including their Red Carpet Fashion camera. They also have a YouTube Channel dedicated to the Oscars . AP Live Stream – AP is offering live streaming of the Academy Awards Online 2010 via Livestream. UStream – Definitely has a great collection of livestreaming sites featuring the Oscars. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Watch the 2010 Oscars : Academy Awards