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million_pic.gif Your Monday morning mission, should you choose to accept it: sign-on to help our staff writer, Jan Birkeland, win $US1 million.

It works like this: home-grown social networking site iYomu.com wants to attract millions of users worldwide. Its weapon of choice in the publicity war is a $US1 million prize to be paid out in the new year. To be in the running, you have to sign up to iYomu.com, and solve 10 onscreen puzzles, getting more points for each puzzle you solve. Beyond that - which Jan and others have already achieved, levelling the playing field - you get points for referring other users. Everyone who's on the site's top 10 leader board on Dec 31 will then be in to win the $US1 million, to be decided by a popular vote by iYomu members.

Now, iYomu wants to attract as many as 10 million users by Christmas. However, from what we can gather, things are still a little quiet. So, I figured, to help iYomu gain some more members, and struggling young house owner Jan to win $US1 million, we would start a concerted pcworld.co.nz campaign to get our staff writer onto the site's leader board.

Jan reckons he needs to sign-up about 80 referrals to get to the top. If you want to partake, then send your email address to jan@pcworld.co.nz, and Jan will send you a referal email.

Read more about iYomu's quixotic attempt to dethrone Facebook - bankrolled by a network of investors supplying $20,000 of the prize money each, including PR doyen Michelle Boag - here.

Comments

What does "a little quiet" actually mean? My guess is this under-hyped new venture is a complete non-starter. Why focus on the prize rather than performance. Can we have some more depth to the reporting please.

[Hi Dan, you can read more about iYomu on my previous posts. iYomu acknowledged that NZ broadband is not up to the requirements of its free online storage/pay online storage model, but also that it wants to get most of its customers in the US and elsewhere. iYomu has refused to say how many members it currently has. CK]

Good luck Jan,

Looks like you're not the only one trying to enlist support for your $1m. This guy's promised to donate half his iYomu winnings to charity: www.fundraiseafortune.com

[I've seen Jan's mortgage. We're talking 100% to charity. CK]

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