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Who can wear more than one Crown at once?
06/12/2007 - (01:43 PM)
Usually we acknowledge just one review that we feel is particularly Crown-worthy in our Crown of the Day posts. Today, we thought we'd do something a little different and celebrate our most Crowned writers over the last month. It's fair to assume that with the pile of Crowns these writers have accumulated, they are amongst the best writers we have at dooyoo (and perhaps those most in need of chiropractic attention after carrying all that weight around on their heads!). So, long live this month's Top 10 Most Crowned members!
Topping the list we have the master of metal himself Frankingsteins with 13 Crowns over the last 30 days - an amazing effort! Coming in second on the list is samueltyler with a very respectable 12 Crowns, narrowly edging out pink-pilgrim who has received 9 Crowns in the last month, not a bad effort for one of our newer members! Next we have a three-way tie between SWSt, plipplop, and cmh4135 each with a haul of 8 Crowns. Another new user, spencer_hawkin, must also have a lot of fans out there in the community; he's on a total of 7 Crowns. In another tie, micksheff, littlexen, and hogsflesh each claimed 6 Crowns this month for their excellent contributions, rounding out our top 10 list. Congratulations to all of these great writers!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
05/12/2007 - (11:59 AM)
It is often all too easy, when we are trying to choose the Crown of the Day, to give it to reviews that bubble over with enthusiasm for the product - it's sort of like the way that you find yourself laughing more at a movie when the people in the cinema with you are laughing their pants off. It's fun to join in the fun, if you know what I mean. The truth is, though, that sometimes products that we try are just not very good and it's probably harder to write a really excellent review of a rather underwhelming product. Well today's Crown of the Day goes to Kepler who has done just that. Check out this five star review of a two star product called Killing music! of the album Keep on Your Mean Side by The Kills. Thanks go to Kepler also for keeping the language clean - a challenge, it seems, when reviewing this record.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
04/12/2007 - (10:54 AM)
All hail to the Queen. Well, maybe not, but we will give her the Crown of the Day. Which Queen? The CoupeQueen, that's who! This relatively new member tells us all about West Midland Safari in her review, "A Roaring Day Out!". It's a positive review and one of the few that highlights flying mammals almost hitting a writer in the face. Now you know you're interested. Take a peek.
Oh and don't forget to check out the dooyooTeam's list of super-special celebrated doers of dooyoo of the week. What can we say? We like highlighting people. It's in our profile, in case you didn't know.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Nearly holiday season!
30/11/2007 - (03:52 PM)
It's nearly the holiday season and we are getting into the festive spirit! Whether it's Hanukkah, Christmas, or Kwanzaa that gets celebrated in your household, we want you to get in the holiday mood with dooyoo. So we're running another dooyoo member picture competition! That's right, pull out your santa hat, or get a little more creative if you like, so long as the end results are festive and a photo ends up on your dooyoo member profile, all you have to do is send us a message at dooyooTeam letting us know you want to enter the competition. We'll be choosing a winner each week during December to receive some bonus dooyooMILES. Happy holidays!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
30/11/2007 - (09:32 AM)
There are many reasons why we highlight a Crowned Review. Sometimes it's phenomenal writing, and other times the review is filled with insightful personal anecdotes. And sometimes, just sometimes, it reminds us of something we had completely forgotten about. Today's Crown of the Day goes to SWSt for their review on why one should love the movie Iron Giant. Entitled Full Metal Genius, this review highlights exactly what it's supposed to. From the initial charm, to the strange public response, this little box-office failure has slowly become a cult classic. Or an underground success. I'm not sure if either of those terms apply to a family movie aimed at teaching kids not to use guns via a giant alien robot, but it's too late. Thanks again SWSt for bringing this back to us.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Members speak and dooyoo listens...
29/11/2007 - (02:52 PM)
When we announced the introduction of our redesigned product hub pages, we asked all you dooyooers to get back to us with your feedback, suggestions, and comments. Well, we were very grateful to have received a lot of input from members and users - most of what you told us was really positive, but there were also some great ideas as to how we could improve our new layout.
One common theme was people liked the new layout of ratings on reviews and member pictures being displayed with the rating. However a lot of you wanted the pictures to link through to the members' profile page so it would be faster and easier to keep in touch with other members of the dooyoo community. We thought that was a fantastic idea so we are happy to launch this new function on the site today! Anything we can do to help our members communicate, stay in touch and navigate through the site is good in our books.
As for the other suggestions we received, we've got our dedicated team of techies and designers sifting through the ideas at the moment and will continue to refine and improve the new product hub over the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
-Elise
dooyooTeam
Crown of the Day
28/11/2007 - (02:31 PM)
Today's Crown of the Day from Kezz360 is a lengthy and empassioned account of the joys that are the Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary Edition Xbox 360 game. Unbridled enthusiasm is, of course, always refreshing to read but Kezz360 manages to also cover all the points that you might want to know about the game whether you're interested in smashing your younger brother's (or sister's, we're equal opportunity video game nerds here at dooyoo) top score, or wondering whether it would be an appropriate addition to someone's Christmas stocking this year. Check out the review, you might find yourself wanting to check out the game shortly thereafter.
-Elise
dooyooTeam
Crown of the Day
27/11/2007 - (11:55 AM)
Struggling to remember that 'summer' ended only a couple of months ago? If, like us, you're feeling as though winter is already taking on that never-ending quality, check out the latest review from duskmaiden. The review, of the Amine Hotel Marrakesh, will not only transport you to a world that sounds much warmer and generally more pleasant than ours at the moment, it might just give you a good idea or two for your next getaway! Check out today's Crown of the Day, Make mine Amine in our International Hotels category.
Also, if you're looking for some more quality reading material (and there's no shortage of it on dooyoo). Make sure you check out this week's highlighted members list in the dooyooTeam Circle of Friends. These five members are our pick this week of active, excellent reviewers on the site - hope you enjoy!
-Elise
dooyooTeam
We want to know what you think! Contest-wise, I mean.
26/11/2007 - (10:10 AM)
Last month (well to be more specific over the past couple months) we launched a handful of special contests. From the Halloween themed review competition that's slowly becoming a tradition, to the recent "30 Reviews in 30 Days" competition, we like trying out new things. And so far, they've been successful. We're currently brainstorming new ideas for contests and we're just not sure exactly what to try next. And then, it came to us. What kind of contests would you like to see? As creative as we are, I'm sure there are a number of you out there with some great ideas. And now, we're asking that you speak up. Send us an email if you have any suggestions.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
23/11/2007 - (12:12 PM)
It is Friday and you dooyooers out there might be looking for a little after work entertainment for a winter's evening, so when we saw that a review posted this morning by our very own film critic plipplop had already received a rather high quotient of Crown nominations from the dooyoo community we realised we'd found our winner of today's Crown of the Day! Check out the review Hell Hath No Fury of Brian de Palma's film Carrie and, like us, you might be tempted to make a lunchtime dash down to your local video store. Have a great weekend everyone!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Temporary glitch in ratings
22/11/2007 - (03:37 PM)
Hi all, just a quick note to let you know that we are aware there has been a glitch on the site this afternoon with regard to ratings not being registered. This has now been cleared up, but member pictures are not currently showing up (in the right hand column) after a rating has been entered. Don't worry, your rating will still have been recorded. Our tech gurus are working to fix the problem and will have it solved as quickly as possible. Sorry for the brief interruption today and thank you for your patience while we iron out the few remaining kinks.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
22/11/2007 - (01:40 PM)
With all the updates and improvements that dooyoo has been undergoing recently we have been so busy telling you about other news that the Crowns of the Day have been a little sparse of late. Thus it was very difficult to choose from amongst the excellent reviews that were on our short list for today's featured Crown. However, You've been papped! by Sparkled_pixie managed to stand out as an excellent example of what a consumer review is all about. As one member, who commented on the review, very rightly said "I like that it's to the point and gives loads of information without waffling on for 18 pages". Well said. Check out this great review for a concise, informative, and accessible evaluation of the Fujifilm Finepix S8000fd.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Getting a bite of the Apple
21/11/2007 - (10:27 AM)
If you are a Mac OS X user, you may have noticed that dooyoo has not always been terribly Safari-friendly (sorry). We want to make sure that dooyoo is available to as many people as possible and with the Mac's market share steadily increasing, we decided it was time dooyoo took a bite of the Apple. We have been working hard to iron out the kinks and make the site fully functional for Apple's updated Safari browser. Testing has been completed this week and we are now all teams go for Safari! So a special welcome to all those dooyooers who are joining us from the land of OS X.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
P.S. Safari 3 is available free from Apple's website, dooyoo does not support earlier versions.
Warm fuzzies for one and all
20/11/2007 - (11:11 AM)
It's winter (well, ok, I know it isn't technically winter yet but it feels like winter already...) and it's cold outside, so we thought a nice warm, fuzzy dooyoo community post was the perfect way to start the day.
You'll remember, of course, the 30 Reviews in 30 Days competition that closed last week. We knew that the winners of the competition would be happy, but we were really thrilled to hear that it wasn't only the winners who benefited. We got this lovely message from one of our members last week:
"Just wanted to say a big thank you for the 30 reviews in 30 days competition. I didn't win in the end, but really I did, if you see what I mean. I hadn't written on dooyoo for around 3 years and this competition gave me the motivation to start again, and through that I remembered what I'd been missing."
It makes us happy to know that we are encouraging a vibrant community of excellent review writers.
Speaking of which, we have come up with a new way to recognise and acknowledge our best writers and dooyoo contributers. Take a look at the dooyooTeam Circle of Friends to see who our highlighted dooyooers are this week. We will be updating the list every week as a way to recognise a selection of our most dedicated members, so make sure you check back regularly and check out their great reviews!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
19/11/2007 - (09:37 AM)
I know I usually try to fit in a joke or two when I bring up the Crown of the Day, but it just didn't seem... right this time around. The award goes to duncantorr for his extremely well-nominated piece on the topic of Breast Cancer. The work, entitled Facing up to Breast Cancer, is a heartfelt monologue that speaks from personal family experience. We suggest you have a look if you haven't already.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
We have our winners!
16/11/2007 - (09:01 AM)
Our brand-new 30 Reviews in 30 Days competition has come to a close and we have our WINNERS!! The competition was a definite success with a wide variety of members entering the draw, from established dooyooers to newcomers and even a couple of our dooyoo Guides. We were thrilled to see that the quality of entrants was extremely high with most doing much more than our stipulation that the 30 posted reviews must be rated at least 'Useful' by the dooyoo community.
We heard some members' concerns that the competition would lead to increased 'churning' on the site (where a member posts a lot of 'Not useful' or 'Somewhat useful' reviews all at one time), but our stats show that this was not the case. In fact what we saw was a general increase in activity across the site, including rating and commenting, and most of the reviews posted were of the usual stellar dooyoo quality. So a BIG thank you goes to everyone who participated in the competition! For those who were not lucky enough to walk away with the loot this time, keep an eye on the dooyoo community Competitions page because we're always looking for new ways to reward our top reviewers! Since this competition worked out so well, we'll be trying out some new ideas in the near future.
...but now, without further ado, the winners of the competition, drawn randomly by Jared and I this morning, are... sunmeilan and sympatic! sunmeilan, whose 30 reviews focused on DVDs and printed books, will shortly be rocking their way into Christmas with the new Apple iPod nano 4 GB. sympatic gave us reviews on a wide selection of subjects from TV to Xbox games and will be having a snap-happy end to the year with a new digital camera - the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W55/S! Congratulations to our winners, and we look forward to reading the reviews of your prizes on dooyoo!
-Elise
dooyooTeam
We're making welcoming new members easier!
15/11/2007 - (09:44 AM)
One page that we were especially pleased to add when we launched our brand new dooyoo community area was the Welcome New Members list. We wanted to make it easier for established dooyooers to get in touch with new members, see what they're up to and help them get settled in. To start with the list was fairly simple and didn't show a lot of information about each new member, but now, in response to feedback from the dooyoo community, we have updated the Welcome New Members page.
The new format makes it easier for you to take in, at a glance, who has joined the community and how active they've been so far. You can also send a message to a new member directly from the Welcome New Members list (of course you have to be logged in to use the message function!).
Not a dooyoo member yet? It's simple and free to join, just fill out the registration form and we'll soon be welcoming you to the dooyoo community!
-Elise
dooyooTeam
Good morning dooyooer, this is your wake up call...
14/11/2007 - (10:53 AM)
Today is the 14th of November, this should mean something to you if you have been taking part in our 30 reviews in 30 days competition... tomorrow is the last day! That's right, if you're close to the 30 review mark since the 15th of October, you have only today and tomorrow to get your last few reviews posted (remember they need to be rated as either Useful or Very Useful by the dooyoo community to count towards your 30 posts).
Looking at our current stats, we have a group of top reviewers who have already entered the draw to win a Sony Cybershot DSC-W55/S or a new Apple iPod Nano 4 GB! We also have a group of reviewers who are teetering very close to the qualifying limit - so if that's you, make sure you get your remaining reviews posted before 12 midnight tomorrow, or you'll turn into a pumpkin! Well, not really, but you won't win either of our great prizes!
-Elise
dooyooTeam
Crown of the Day
13/11/2007 - (01:10 PM)
Today's Crown of the Day goes to littlexen for her thorough and entertaining review of Listerine Original, which goes by the rather subtle title of Swallow? Well it is rude to spit! We normally associate burning sensations in the mouth with negative things, but Littlexen helps us to see all of that in a new light. Check out the review for all your plaque-fighting, fresh-smelling need-to-knows.
-Elise
dooyooTeam
And so we continue to improve...
09/11/2007 - (10:50 AM)
Just wanted to let the sharp-eyed amongst you know that yes, we have just upgraded our product hub and it does look a little different. The change is mostly on our end... which means the site should work better than it has before. Since this is a new thing, please let us know via the contact form if you notice anything out of the ordinary, or send us a Personal Message at dooyooTeam. You shouldn't have any problems, but hey, that's what Bug Report forms are for.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day (You know the Drill)
08/11/2007 - (08:45 AM)
Her name is Hilary and she seems to have blinded me with SCIENCE. Wait. I take that back. She blinded me with Curtains. That's the name of today's highlight from Stroody, a new member who writes far too much and too well for their own good. This review of hillarys.co.uk called, you guessed it, Blinded by Curtains is definitely worth checking out. At least us here at dooyoo seem to think so. Not to mention the small horde of folks who nominated it in record time.
-Jared
dooyooTeam
Crown of the Day
07/11/2007 - (09:09 AM)
Are you (shock! horror!) having trouble reading reviews by your favourite reviewers on dooyoo? Well, pull up a magnifying glass and check out today's Crown of the Day from ~pink-pilgrim~. The review You should have gone to Specsavers contains lots of useful information about the services of Specsavers Opticians, and will also probably give you a few general handy tips about things to look out for when choosing new glasses. Enjoy.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
06/11/2007 - (03:06 PM)
Today's Crown of the Day is a must read for... well, the title of the review says it all really. Check out JayHall1991's review, Neurotic Males Guide to Clinique, to get some informed, considered, and entertaining advice on skin care.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
05/11/2007 - (10:46 AM)
It's that time again. While we're sorting out this week's Crowns at this very moment, one particular review already has our attention. The Crown of the week goes to luckyarchers for their review of Sovereign by CJ Sansom. The review is called Heirs and Bastards and it's a great look at a genre a lot of us don't appreciate. Check it out, by all means.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Site updates: Onwards and upwards!
02/11/2007 - (10:51 AM)
You might have noticed that the site has been getting a gradual face-lift over recent months. From the new Community area, to our sparkling new Help pages, and a number of small changes to the member profile pages, we have been working, this year, on bringing the site up to date and making it more user-friendly.
Next week we will be launching the next step in this process with an overhaul of the product and review pages on the site! The re-designed pages will offer a clearer, more streamlined version of existing features as well as a few new ones.
The main changes are:
- the review writing form has been streamlined and beautified and additional 'read review' and 'write review' buttons will be added to each product page so that you can read and write at break-neck speed, and
- additional stats will be added against each review, so that you can see at a glance what percentage of people rated the review Very Useful compared to Useful, and you'll be able to see the member picture of the last members to rate the review.
Our designers and tech wizards are working on testing the new pages as we speak and expect to launch them next week - so keep your eyes peeled! In the meantime, have a great weekend!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Monthly Competition winners!
01/11/2007 - (02:16 PM)
Well, it is the first of November, that sad time of year where we pack away the Halloween costumes for another year, and acknowledge the inevitability of the onset of winter... Fortunately, we have some great news to cheer up a few lucky dooyoo members, and some particularly great late-Autumn reading for everyone else - the October competition winners!
Our Review of the Month prize goes to mummy2harry for her engaging and educational review My experience of a C-Section and the birth story of Harry!. If you haven't already seen this excellent review, make yourself a cup of tea and settle in for a great read.
Choosing the winners for our Halloween Competition was quite a challenge, with so many good ones to sort through. In the end though, the humourous story of a modern-day witch's skincare routine won out and malibu_jenny took home first prize for her review Finding Sanctuary On HALLOWEEN ,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º \ on The Sanctuary Body Scrub. Second prize went to anwar7 for her review A Herb for Halloween! on the humble Garlic plant. The review was anything but humble though and gave us a little of everything from ancient Greeks to culinary treats. Special appreciation to plipplop who heroically spent the month slashing his way through Halloween Horror (films, that is) for the reading, and viewing, pleasure of the rest of us. His comedically titled review Hallowe'en Horror: Dead and Breakfast on Vacancy (DVD) took third prize.
So, with Halloween over, it is with mixed feelings that we look forward to the return of our smiling faced dooyoo members and the reduction of blood, gore, and scary pumpkin faces around the site. The next challenge is already on the horizon though, so to get more information about November's competitions, check out the competitions page.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
31/10/2007 - (09:38 AM)
It was a tough call to choose the Crown of the Day today, particulary amongst the recent crop of truly excellent reviews in the printed books category. In the end, however, the fascinating combination of psychology, neuroscience, Freudian analysis, World War II history, and even a gown worn to a Nobel Prize awards ceremony won out. To read a wonderful review of what sounds like an amazing book, check out MagdaDH'S review of In Search of Memory, called Life in Mind Science.
P.S. Happy Halloween!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
30/10/2007 - (09:45 AM)
Today's Crown of the Day may be one that you want to bookmark for the time, growing ever nearer, when Christmas stockings need to be filled (sorry if that wee reminder came as a horrid shock to anyone!). Stone me it's an MP3 player!, from reviewer madmum71, is an excellent example of an informative, interesting review of a technology-type product, that doesn't baffle the less techno-literate amongst us with masses of jargon. Not only that, but according to madmum71 the Creative Zen Stone 1 GB is a sure fire monster-pleaser! Check out the review to get the low down on this handy little MP3 player.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
30 Reviews in 30 Days Competition: There's still time!
29/10/2007 - (01:11 PM)
This is a reminder about our newest competition, where you could win yourself a Sony Cybershot DSC-W55/S or a new Apple iPod Nano 4 GB!! As I'm sure you know by now, all you have to do is post 30 Useful, or Very Useful reviews between 15 October and 15 November to go in the draw to win!
Running a little behind schedule? Well, fear not! You still have 18 more days to get your remaining 30 reviews written and posted on the site! That's plenty of time to review 30 products... For example, you could have a movie marathon of all 8 Police Academy DVDs with a different brand of chocolate/candy/crisp for each movie, a few tea breaks with different brands of tea in the intermissions and you're almost at 30 already! Plus of course you could review your TV, your DVD player, and your sofa. See? Easy. However you choose to do it, we look forward to reading all about it...
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Halloween member picture competition winner for the week!
26/10/2007 - (03:18 PM)
Well, it's the last week of our Halloween Member Picture competition - how time flies! Thank you to everyone who entered, we had a lot of fun and hope you did too! Not that we're going to let any cats out of bags but, should you be so inclined, you might want to think about particularly jolly Christmas pictures over the coming weeks! Anyway, down to business... our winner this week is enter drum roll here... sgathach! Congratulations on walking away with this week's bonus dooyooMILES. Hope that green lipstick came off without too much trouble...
And remember dooyoo members, you've only got till next Wednesday (the 31st of October) to get your entries in for this month's other great Halloween (and non-Halloween) competitions. Have a great weekend!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
26/10/2007 - (10:32 AM)
Is all that Halloween face paint (speaking of which, our Halloween Member Profile Picture competition is open till the end of the day!) wreaking havoc on your skin? Do you sometimes feel a little more Frankenstein than fresh-faced in the morning? If so then you probably need to take a look at the fantastic review I feel purified of Laura Mercier Purifying Oil Light by one of our new members Suzela. Since joining dooyoo Suzela has been turning out one excellent review after another - make sure you check them out and give her a warm welcome.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Need help? New HELP PAGES to the rescue!!
24/10/2007 - (02:08 PM)
Everyone needs a little help now and then, whether you're an old-hand dooyoo member or a brand spanking new addition to the community. We have been working hard behind the scenes on a very important section of our Community Area - the dooyoo Help Pages and the good news is that our gorgeous new Help section is now live and at your service (see the link at the top right of your screen, above the search function)!
Find out everything you need to know about dooyooMILES, our rewards system for members contributing to dooyoo. Get the low down on all the Community and Member services that are available to you once you register with dooyoo and join our Community. Plus, get the latest on how to write and rate reviews, what a Crowned Review is, or, for our new members, check out the Using dooyoo section to find all the information you need to get settled here at dooyoo.
We think you'll like our new pages - of course, we would love to hear all of your feedback, be it positive, negative, confused, or curious. Feel free to send us a Personal Message at dooyooTeam or use the Contact the dooyoo Team to tell us what you think.
Hope you enjoy!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
24/10/2007 - (08:37 AM)
Today's Crown of the Day comes from a highly respected (judging by all those Crown nominations from the dooyoo Community), long-standing member, collingwood21. Her review I Need To Talk About Kevin about the controversial novel We Need to Talk About Kevin is thought-provoking, well considered and certainly has our interest piqued! Check out this fascinating review yourself and, like us, you may be adding this one to your book wishlist.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Return to Competition Creek: The Final Conflict
23/10/2007 - (08:29 AM)
Just a reminder...We have two special competitions on the loose. Let's start with my personal favorite:
The October Halloween Competition!
Only 9 more days remain to get your Halloween review on the site. It can be on any topic, just make sure it's bent towards the macabre. Or maybe the unearthly. Or at least has the word "Ghost" in it. We're not too picky. For a surreal example, take a peek at this Crowned review from freediveheaven called Another Halloween Sequel. Good luck, girls and ghouls. (Sorry, couldn't resist. The "Tales from the Crypt" sensibility is upon me. Just be glad I didn't try to fit "Count dooyoocula" into this news post.)
And let us not forget:
The 30 Reviews in 30 Days competition! You still have until November 15th to have written 30 excellent reviews since October 15th to be added to our lottery pool. What's the pool for? Everyone who pulls this off has a chance to walk away with a Sony Cybershot DSC-W55/S or a new Apple iPod Nano 4 GB. And hey, with the postal strike at an end we can actually send it to you! One final bit: We feel we need to clarify a couple of things since we've been asked these questions a lot.
Question: Do I have to post a review once every day for 30 days?
Answer: No. As long as by November 15th you've posted 30 reviews (total) in the past 30 days. It all comes down to what you have on the 15th.
Question: What's to stop someone from just writing 30 terrible reviews in ten minutes so they can enter this?
Answer: I am. When we get our list of those who qualify, it'll be my job to go through them and make sure those reviews are "real". There's no real way to quantify that but a good guideline would be that all 30 of those reviews have been rated useful or very useful.
So, good luck and happy Halloween.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Halloween member picture competition winner for the week!
19/10/2007 - (09:03 AM)
Here we are another week closer to the pinnacle of the witching season and again we found ourselves in the tricky position of trying to choose a winner for our Halloween member picture competition (for other great competitions on this month click here. We had some great entries this week including a Super-cutie in a Superman outfit, a woman drowning in a bath of chocolate, and a suspiciously witchy frog, but in the end we had to go with an extremely purrrty feline... Take a look at bandcamp's profile to see why Halle Berry should be worried about securing the lead in the Catwoman sequel. Meanwhile, even if you've already entered once, keep those entries coming in by sending a Personal Message to dooyooTeam, we'll be choosing another winner next Friday.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
18/10/2007 - (09:53 AM)
It's always nice to see a new face here at dooyoo. Even better, it's nice to see a new face who's first review gets nominated for a Crown right off the bat. That said, please enjoy mcc28_x's review of the Ford Fiesta, entitled (surprisingly) Ford Fiesta 1.4 TDCi 1.4 Ghia (2004). Welcome to dooyoo and good work.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
17/10/2007 - (09:56 AM)
Today's Crown of the Day comes from one of our most well-rounded reviewers, mummy2harry, as the name suggests, has written about everything from kids equipment to books, and hair care products. Judging from her review The best book club going of The Book People, she is also extremely well-read! Make sure you check out this excellent review.
- Elise
dooyoo Team
30 Reviews in 30 Days: Review-a-Day Challenge!
12/10/2007 - (11:21 AM)
Calling all dooyoo members! Would you like to win a Sony Cybershot DSC-W55/S, the most popular digital camera with dooyoo users, or how about the New Apple iPod Nano 4 GB with video screen? Yes? We thought so... We'd like nothing more than to give you one of these fantastic prizes, and all for doing something we already know you love to do - writing reviews!
To take part in the Review-a-Day Challenge and go in the draw to win, all you have to do is post 30 new reviews between Monday the 15th of October and Thursday the 15th of November (that's actually 31 days, so you have one freebie!). Of course we're looking for reviews of the usual stellar dooyoo quality, so we will only count reviews that are rated as 'Useful' or 'Very Useful' by the dooyoo Community. The two lucky winners will be drawn randomly following the close of the competition and announced on the Community homepage.
Not a dooyoo member? Well now is the perfect time to join the dooyoo Community and have the chance to win some great prizes. Of course, you will still earn the usual dooyooMILES for all the reviews you write. To register and become a dooyoo member, click here.
So, rev up those review-writing engines and make with the keyboard tapping! Good luck contestants!
- Elise
dooyoo Team
Halloween member picture competition winner for the week!
12/10/2007 - (08:41 AM)
We have been absolutely thrilled by all your entries for the Halloween member picture competition and we really had a heck of a job choosing only one winner this week. Thankfully we still have two more weeks to go! So keep your entries coming in, even if you've already entered once. Now to the real business of this post, the winning picture this week is what we imagine the love child of Kiss (the band), The Joker, and a Jack-o-Lantern would look like, with maybe a little bit of Edward Scissorhands thrown in (the resemblence is around the eyes). Check out Duty_Free_Me's fantastic Halloween picture, and maybe check out some of his reviews while you're at it.
- Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
11/10/2007 - (10:08 AM)
Ever wondered how to get one of those spotless houses where everything is in it's place? How to be a domestic god/goddess? Well, unfortunately we don't have any house-cleaning fairies to give away (although there are some cool new competitions coming up at dooyoo so stay tuned!), what we do have though is an excellent review about a little machine that's maybe part of the answer. So channel your inner Martha Stewart and check out today's Crown of the Day from SusanLesley on the Miele Cat and Dog vacuum cleaner - it's called Brilliant machine with good suck! Well I never! Enjoy.
- Elise
dooyoo Team
No one dooyoos like these guys do!
10/10/2007 - (08:50 AM)
Today we are celebrating not a single review, as we usually do with the Crown of the Day, but a whole battalion of reviews instead! dooyoo lives only because of it's fabulous members and users, and today we are cheering for our 10 most prolific reviewers over the last 30 days. Weighing in at a superb 40 reviews in 30 days is the always thought-provoking Frankingsteins, next is she of the cute and cuter member pictures ButterBear with 33 reviews, and rounding out the top three is sunmeilan, whose interests range from DVDs and Books to restaurants. Fourth place, with 21 reviews, is evesapples131 and damnsith holds the fort at number five. Sixth to tenth places are amply filled by hollywoodmum, bagofproverbial, esjay, samueltyler, and Lakerfanster.
To view this list and a bunch of other interesting statistics, check out the 'Writers and Reviews' link in the menu at the left of the page. Meanwhile, we here at dooyoo are sending out resounding cheers to our busiest writers over the last month - hoorah!
- Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
09/10/2007 - (03:51 PM)
Today's Crown of the Day comes from the esteemed DVD reviewer christianfilm, whose reviews you can always rely on for a quick 'what's hot and what's not' before choosing your Friday evening entertainment. In the spotlight today is the review The Unreal Hustle, which - in case you were wondering - gave the film Matchstick Men a very respectable 4 out of 5 stars. Another one for the rental list then; check out the full review for details.
- Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
08/10/2007 - (09:29 AM)
Today's Crown of the Day comes from a new member. Having joined us only a little more than a week ago, oodlenoodle9 gives us a great look at the PC Game Stalker. Wait. Strike that. I meant S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Take a look at his review... particularly if you like fleeing from packs of mutant dogs.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
First Winner! Halloween member picture competition
05/10/2007 - (10:56 AM)
We were intending to wait a full week before awarding our first prize for the Halloween member picture competition. That was until we got an entry from wendybull which we just could not resist. Those over-sized vampire teeth really suit you Wendy! We'll be choosing another winner next week, so get creative, upload your most horrying Halloween picture to your profile, and send us a personal message at dooyooTeam to win some bonus dooyooMILES. Have a great weekend everyone!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Get your spooky face on: Halloween member picture competition
04/10/2007 - (08:31 AM)
We're running a new competition this month that's all about getting your beautiful faces onto dooyoo. Well, actually, since it's Halloween we're probably not necessarily after those flattering pictures you have tucked away. We want to see you dressed up in all your Halloween finery! Take a look at our little green friend in his awesome costume on the dooyooTeam profile if you need some inspiration.
To win yourself some bonus dooyooMILES this month, simply upload a picture of yourself in your most impressive Halloween get-up and send us a Personal Message at the dooyooTeam profile to let us know. We'll be choosing winners every week so make sure you keep an eye on the Community homepage to see if you've won. Get into the spirit and have a little fun!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Halloween Competition Time!
02/10/2007 - (11:20 AM)
Instead of choosing one category for our monthly competition, this month we're choosing the theme. Since the witching month is upon us and the ghouls are dusting off their graves, we want you to write about Halloween. Or, more specifically, we want you to review ANYTHING and put a spooky spin on it. Want to review a horror movie? Go right ahead. Need to let us know about how your grandmother's ghost lives in your new vacuum cleaner? We think you're nuts but sure, write about it! Just remember to put the word "Halloween" in the title... otherwise we won't know you're entering yourself in our contest!
To get you in the mood, here are a few of the winners from last year's month of horror competition:
Duncantorr's Halloween Schmalloween
Berlioz II's The Omen of Hallowe'en
Malibu Jenny's A Spooky Mist on Halloween
Good luck and happy haunting!
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Survey Winners and a bit of a Halloween teaser
28/09/2007 - (09:49 AM)
Just wanted to say WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! It took some doing because it seemed a few people who filled out our survey didn't use the most kosher of email address... but I digress. Congratulations to Bandcamp, Chantelly, Hogsflesh, and NickyTurnill for walking away with our prizes.
In other news, we're going to be doing our annual Halloween contest-type stuff in, you guessed it, October. We'll be giving awards to spooktastic opinions just like last year but with the new profile design, we've got our mind leaning towards something more graphic. And by "graphic" I don't mean violence. Get your Halloween pictures ready, we've got plans for you. And prizes.
-Jared
dooyoo Team
Ch-ch-changes and site updates
27/09/2007 - (10:04 AM)
Firstly, a quick reminder. As we said on Tuesday, the Member Search function has been re-vamped and is moving to its new home in the Community Area. The link will no longer be available in the top navigation bar. You can search for other members to your heart's content using the link at the left of this page.
Secondly, we have a brand new feature on the Personal Messaging system. We have added a character counter to the PM system so that you will know exactly how much longer you can rave to your new favourite reviewer about their excellent work. We've tested it and all appears to be working well, but if you do find that it isn't working the way it should please let us know. To contact us, you can use the Contact the dooyoo Team link on this page, send us a PM to the dooyooTeam Profile, or email us at dooyooteam@dooyoo.co.uk.
One more thing about PMs, while we have your attention; we would like to stress that we do not tolerate abuse of the PM system. This means that we don't want dooyoo members (that's you guys) being spammed by people joining dooyoo simply to advertise themselves or their companies. We are working to eliminate this problem from our Community, but if you do receive spam PMs please let us know so that we can feed the offenders to a tank of hungry sharks, that is, I mean, revoke their dooyoo membership.
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Useful Stats gets an update
26/09/2007 - (11:10 AM)
If you are a dooyoo member you have probably seen the 'Useful Stats' link on your My dooyoo page. This link allows you to see who rated your reviews, who read your reviews, and the reviews that you have read - all useful things to know. We thought, however, that the layout of these lists could be a little more intuitive and therefore we have given the Useful Stats lists a makeover! You now have the option to view all ratings of your reviews at once, directly from your 'Who Rated My Reviews?' list, and we've reorganised the information so that hopefully it is easier to understand everything at a glance. Now all that remains is for you to get filling those columns - more reviews and more reads, here we come!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
Crown of the Day
26/09/2007 - (08:12 AM)
Today's Crown of the Day comes from one of our long-time members, sit2020. The review in the spotlight, I use this for my summertime chews, is an in-depth and extremely well thought out discussion of the wonders of the Trangia Camping Stove. This review brought back many fond memories for us of ghost stories around the campfire and the peculiar joy of smoky-tasting tea - always a good thing when starting a new day at the office. Hope you enjoy it!
-Elise
dooyoo Team
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