Team Cool Kids FTW!

So we can finally announce it:  Samsung has chosen Team Cool Kids to compete in their Mobile Explorers competition up in Vancouver, Canada during the 2010 Winter Olympics!  My partner, Lindsay Harbert, and I are STOKED to have been chosen as a finalist but our work is not yet complete. We need your help. Here is the video that got us into the competition:

The competition pits Team Cool Kids up against 4 other highly qualified teams in a series of Olympic challenges involving video making, blogging, twittering, and social networking.  The challenges have yet to be announced, but you can count on them being fun!  IT’S THE OLYMPICS!  Now what are we competing for? Well, $24k, a bunch of Samsung schwag, and the potential to do more Mobile Exploring with Samsung (wait, A JOB!? YES PLEASE!).

How do we win? Another good question.  We will be graded on the following criteria: best balance of communication skills, creativity, originality, personality and social media networking capabilities in addition to audience votes and views.  This is where you come in.  We will be posting videos and promoting them while we’re up there for the competition.  We hope that you can help us by checking out these videos as they come up, vote for us, and help us come home with the big grand prize!

The best way to stay up to date with us while we’re there is to follow us on twitter, facebook, youtube, and on the Samsung USA website.

• Twitters: @teamcoolkids, @ethannewberry, @lindsayharbert, @samsungtweets
• Facebooks: Ethan’s FB, Lindsay’s FB, Samsung’s FB
• Youtube: Ethan’s YouTube, Samsung’s YouTube
• Websites: EthanNewberry.com (you’re already here), Samsung.com/MobileExplorers

I’ve also attached the Samsung Official Press Release HERE.  If you know anyone in the press, blogs, or any other way we can help spread the word about Team Cool Kids in this competition, we would be much appreciative.  Here is the second video we made prepping for the competition:

So again, thank you so much for helping us get this far.  We have the best fans in the world.  Just a little more to go and let’s win this sucker!  Stay tuned for more information!

It was bound to happen, me making a Christmas list.  People have been bugging me for one for a few weeks now so instead of giving them one drab lil list of bogus items I don’t want or need cause they fit into a price category, I’m going balls out and providing you with TWO lists.  Today’s list will be all the items that are on the “HOLY JESUS, THANKS FOR BEING BORN AND FOR BEING RICH” list. No-holds barred.

10) 250G PS3 BUNDLE — $299-$399

The PS3 Uncharted 2 Bundle

This is the cheapest item on my “RICH” list. It’s also the one that can steal the most of my time. I have an Xbox 360 and love the shit out of it. But there’s this competing system that has a bevy of amazing games I’d love to sink my teeth into. Uncharted 2 – The SpikeTV video game of the year – is up on the top of that list. Coming out next year, Gran Turismo 5 is also up there. So why not, it’s currently out of my price-range so it’s made the “rich guy” list. Maybe I have a sugar momma out there somewhere.

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