We’d like to introduce you to the newest feature on Mister Wong: The Spotlight.

The Spotlight will be the place for interesting websites, interesting people, and interesting topics.

As of today, we’ll be shining the light on people from all walks of life, presenting a bit about them, and also letting you have a peek into their personal bookmarks. We’ve got some interesting people lined up and some exciting topics. Everything from modern art to web 2.0, punk rock to haute cuisine, sports to science, business to pleasure, and everything in between.

Our first Spotlight guest is Ed Lea. Ed is the founder of ArtFlock.com, a site, where you can buy and sell original art and crafts. As an artist himself, he’s got an eye for design and a heart for helping his fellow artists. Find out more about Ed in the Spotlight.

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Not only do we have a new logo, but we’ve come up with a couple of new features as well.

On the overview page, you’ll now find the Discovery Zone with an ever-changing list of categories and top links. Perfect for finding new and interesting sites.

We’ve also added something to buddies. You’ll now find the 30 latest bookmarks saved by your buddies. Another good reason to add more buddies and find out what they are bookmarking.

Happy New Year wonging the web!

Your Mister Wong Team

The dice have been tossed! We’ve made our decision and today we are crowning the winner of our Mister Wong Logo Contest.

After Mister Wong users chose the top 12 out of over 1800 submitted designs, and the international jury chose the top 3 finalists, the final decision was made by the Mister Wong Team.

The important criteria for us was, of course, the relation to the name “Mister Wong”, the functionality of the logo as a Favicon, as well, in recognizability, but also the natural trademark criteria.

Therefore, we chose the design by Hu Nan from China in a reduced version and are excited to present it to the public: Mister Wong’s New Logo! :)

In the next few days, the logo will be placed on all of Mister Wong’s sites. The new Wong buttons can be found here: http://www.mister-wong.com/stuff/buttons/.

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from your Wong Team!

We’re getting in to the holiday spirit and decided to make a little change to Mister Wong.

Now when you want to recommend a link to someone, send it as a gift. This is a nice way to let someone know you are thinking of them.

So what kind of links might make a good gift this season? We’ve put together a few of our favorite holiday links and also started the holidays group, where you can add yours too.

Especially for the kids:

Some history:

Entertainment:

Games:

Recipes:

Charities:

Send a gift link now and wong the holidays!

The radio show, Future Tense, produced and hosted by Jon Gordon has recently invited Mister Wong to participate on a show about new internet tools. On the show, Mister Wong is presented as a supplement to classical search engines. Listen to the interview here.

The original image of the radio is by edvvc.

We are pleased to announce the three winners of our worldwide logo contest!

The international jury had a difficult task in choosing the top three from the 12 logos that were chosen as a result of our user-voting. While many criterias had to be accounted for, the most important ones were the uniqueness and originality of the design, recognizability of the small icon, as well as an obvious reference to our name “Mister Wong” and/or the topic of social bookmarking and its associated connotations.

To cut a long story short, (drumroll) and the winners are. . .

Ivan Pashenko, Russia

Hu Nan, China

Israel Betancourt, Mexico

The winners will receive 3.000 USD each!

Now we move on to the final phase of the contest:
The Wong team will decide on the winner (who will receive another 3.000 USD). We will then have to take care of the few legal details. But don’t worry, we will present the result and the new logo in time for the holiday season!

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Is Web2.0 your religion of choice? Do you want to drink from the cup of the man that coined the term? Well here´s your chance.

Buy this empty bottle of Apollinaris water and you are one step away from Web2.0 heaven. Yes people, drink straight from the bottle that Tim O´Reilly drank from at the Mister Wong booth during a break at the Web2.0 Expo in Berlin.

Please visit our eBay-auction for your chance to get your hands on this holy item!

All proceeds from this auction will go to Unicef’s safe water campaign. According to them, “Lack of safe water and sanitation is the world’s single largest cause of illness”.

The image on the left of Tim was taken by Takeshi and the other two are by Mister Wong.

We had a great time at the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin. It was fun to have so many wonderful people stop by to hang out with us at our booth. Even Tim O’Reilly stopped by to chill out, grab a drink, and chat.

We hope you all enjoyed your time at the Expo and visiting with us as well. Keep in touch and share your blog entries and pictures if you’ve got them.

Newsweek, one of America’s top weekly magazines is in search of new and improved search engines and checking out what the world wide web has to offer. Globally, there are a lot of new ways to search the internet for content. Mister Wong is included among them.

Mister Wong’s Founder and CEO, Kai Tietjen, was interviewed by Newsweek. The article highlights a few of Mister Wong’s key features. We’re not just a bookmarking site. Of course we offer our users a place to save and share their favorite websites, as well as be able to access them from anywhere online, but all of the saved bookmarks become a peer-to-peer search engine.

You can read the article in the Nov 5, 2007 Issue or you can read it now here online.

Finally! Over 20,000 votes were cast and the results of the user voting are now in! We’d like to, again, thank the over 3,000 designers, who participated! Thank you! :)

We’ll let you all know the results from our jury and the following vote for the top three logos by our team as soon as possible. Stay tuned!

And now, the designs, which received the most votes, in reverse alphabetical order by last name:

Sergey Vladymyrov, Russia:

Anxo Vizcaíno López, Spain:

Tom Peters, Germany:

Ivan Pashenko, Russia:

Hu Nan, China:

Jacobo Marraco, Spain:

Fernando Gabriel Landi , Argentina:

Michael Karasek, Austria:

Lorenzo Geiger, Switzerland:

Elodie Delannoy, France:

Daniel Boehm, Germany:

Israel Betancourt, Mexiko:

P.S.: The 12 winners of the user voting will each receive a Mister Wong shirt and the 2008 Web Designers’ Calendar from spreadshirt.

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