Technorati’s one billion links contest

Via Mike Manuel comes news that Technorati has opened up a contest to guess when the service will reach a mega milestone – tracking one billion links.

Technorati CEO Dave Sifry has the details:

Technorati would like to mark this special event for our members with a “One Billion Links Tracked” contest. Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, March 29, 2005.

How to participate

  1. Become a Technorati member.
  2. Claim your weblog.
  3. Create a new weblog post complete with one guess for when Technorati will surpass one billion links tracked. Date and time should be San Francisco local time (UTC-8:00).
  4. Tag your post with Technorati tag “onebillionlinks.”

We will review all entries and declare the winner as the person with the closest guess on or after we track our one-billionth link. If two or more members guess the same winning time the most senior member – the first member to join Technorati – will receive the prize.

And the prize – a 1-gig capacity iPod Shuffle.

Ok, here’s my shot: Wednesday 30 March 2005, 8.54pm San Francisco time.

Hurry – contest closes today!