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What Drives Edward is a contest on volvo’s website, officially at: http://www.whatdrivesedward.com

The competition is in celebration of the movie “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, the second film in the saga. In this film, and the first one as well, the character “Edward Cullen” played by Robert Pattinson, drives a Volvo. In Twilight it was a Volvo C30, in New Moon it’s going to be a Volvo XC60. The winner of the sweepstakes on Volvo’s website is awarded a Volvo XC60 for being the very first person to complete all of the puzzles as they are released. So far the first 3 of 6 phases have been released with the 4th 5th and 6th dates being as follows.

Phase 1 – Available Now!

Phase 2 – Available Now!

Phase 3 – Available Now!

Phase 4 – November 13th, 11:59PM EST :: 2:59AM PST

Phase 5 – November 17th,  7:59PM EST :: 10:59PM PST

Phase 6 -  November 22nd, 12:59PM EST :: 3:59PM PST

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Okay, so in my spare time I wanted to determine how much time I waste, in numbers. So I decided to give this number a title – Web Influence Marks. Or WIM for short. The higher your WIM, the more presence you have on the internet. Just take into account all of your website profiles, blogs and accounts on blog/social sites and all web sites you manage. Take it and post your WIM in the comments.

Take every site that is related to you into account for this quiz.

A: Public Profiles(myspace, digg, any profile): 10 pt each

B: Hosted Blogs(like a .wordpress.com or blogspot, even myspace and friendster blogs.): 100 points each (each BLOG, not POST)

C: Personal Blogs/Sites Related to you where you OWN the domain: see Traffic Key

D: Business/Community/Hobby sites you founded(not clients): see Traffic Key

E: Clients web sites: 1/4 the points from the traffic key

Traffic Key

Take your personal blogs and sites (from categories C & D) and check the alexa traffic rankings:

Weigh them according to this scale:

+20,000,000-10,000,000= – 100

9,999,999-5,000,000= — 200

4,999,999-1,000,000= —- 400

Anywhere in the 900,000’s= 550

Anywhere in the 800,000’s= 685

Anywhere in the 700,000’s= 850

Anywhere in the 600,000’s= 1050

Anywhere in the 500,000’s= 1300

Anywhere in the 400,000’s= 1625

Anywhere in the 300,000’s= 2100

Anywhere in the 200,000’s= 2600

Anywhere in the 100,000’s= 5000

Anywhere in the 75,000’s= 7500

Anywhere in the 50,000’s= 11250

Anywhere in the 25,000’s= 16875

Anywhere in the 10,000’s= 25500

Anywhere in the 5,000’s= 50000

Anywhere in the 1,000’s= 80000

Anywhere in the 750’s= 150000

Anywhere in the 500’s= 275000

Anywhere in the 250’s= 500000

Anywhere in 100’s to 20’s= 5,000,000

Top 10 Why are you taking this test? Give yourself 1 billion points! You own the world!

What does it add up to? Share with me in the comments!

Anyone who allows an advertisement to COVER their content on a site instantly fails as a web designer. I could think of about a thousand sites that do this, all of which completely lose my respect. I, among many other people will NOT copy the text to something else to read it, reload your page, or click your ad. You are all losing potential return visitors by making the sole reason people visit your site not functional. Way to go, enjoy your quick advertising cash while it lasts. Your site is on a fast path to worthlessness you dirty  Sellouts!