Gawker on TG contest
By Bala Shah

On July 12, 2010, Techgoss (TG) had launched a Rs. 20,000 contest for human interest photos from the Indian IT, BPO, KPO and associated sectors. The best photo or photo feature will win a minimum of Rs. 10,000.  The runner up gets a minimum of Rs. 5,000. All other published photos will be paid a minimum of Rs. 1000.

Techgoss has published a number of photos which are in the running for the Rs. 10,000 first prize.  The photos published so far include a Genpact AVP on the dance floor, Grouse Board at 3 BPO, and most recently a photo of the Infosys Leadership team in New York which was snapped in 2000.

On July 23, we presented you a photo of the brilliant Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, wearing traditional Indian attire, and dancing at his Indian friend and colleague’s wedding in Pune in Jan, 2010. 

Not surprisingly, the photo of Mark Zuckerberg published in Techgoss generated wide interest.  Popular Indian business and technology blog Pluggd.in ran a contest based on the photo.

On July 29, America’s most popular blog Gawker reported on the Techgoss photo contest.  Gawker has 5 million monthly readers and has been declared ‘Blog of the Decade’ by AdWeek.  The Gawker article read in part

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For evidence of India's obsession with Zuckerberg, look to the picture contest under way at Indian website TechGoss.com, which is offering up to 10,000 rupees for the best "human interest" pictures related to tech. The leading entries at the moment would appear to be shots of Zuckerberg and friends at the January wedding of Facebooker Aditya Agarwal. The above photo ran on TechGoss already, the shot below was graciously provided to us by the site's editors and appears for the first time here on Gawker. The TechGoss pictures are yet further evidence of India's growing obsession with Facebook, which has been steadily adding users there over the past year and is finally poised to pass its more successful local rival Orkut, owned by Google.
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More than 13 thousand people have read the Gawker article in the last 24 hours.  Many of them came to the Techgoss site to get more details of the photo contest.

Ironically, Facebook is the only site where Techgoss had taken paid advertising to let our Indian readers know about this contest.

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