The Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE) has announced the launch a student competition to design the logo for Origin Oman, the new Omani government initiative to promote and support local products and services. The winner of the competition will be awarded RO 500 in cash (about $1300) and his logo will be used on the merchandise of all participating local businesses to indicate that they are members of the Origin Oman campaign, just like the older Omani Product campaign. All students of Omani colleges and universities regardless of nationality may participate in this competition, here are the rules:

• The logo design must have two version in Arabic and English where the Arabic includes the word ‘Omani’ in Arabic and the English version includes the words ‘Origin Oman’ in English. A single version will be accepted if it contains both of these elements.
• The submission must be made in AI format.
• The logo must be usable in monochrome and colour media.
• The participant must be a student based in Oman, he/she must include personal details such as his/her full name, age, place of study, postal address, telephone number, and email along with his submission.
• All submissions are to be sent by email to hamida.albalushi@peie.om.
• The deadline for making the submission is the 20th of May.
• The winner will be announced on the 25th of May.

All of you interested in participating in this cool competition should check the detailed description of it after the jump.

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Playyoo is a new Flash Lite game social network that aims to provide Flash Lite game developers with a platform to promote and share their Flash Lite games on the internet. Playyoo is currently in public beta and anyone can try out their mobile portal for downloading free Flash Lite game by registering online for the sneak preview.

It is worth noting that Playyoo is currently accepting entries for its Flash Lite game launch contest, the top ten winners will win prizes ranging from $10,000 to $500. The deadline for submitting Flash Lite games for this competition is the 15th of February 2008. It is worth noting that submissions for the Playyoo game contest must make use of the Playyoo Flash extension to export their games in conformity with the Playyoo platform and must use Playyoo’s servers for any online features such as a highscore board.

Learn more about Playyoo from its official website.

The organisers of the Oman Web Awards made a press release today announcing their acceptance of submissions for their upcoming Oman Web Awards 2007.  We believe that the Oman Web Awards is a scam to collect extortionate entry fees and sponsorship fees without rewarding any of the winners selected randomly by unqualified judges who do not have to give any reasoning behind their scores. The competition that is publicised as a promotion of creativity, web standards and intellectual property does not mention the names of designers and developers who actually make the websites and does not use web standards on its own website to start with. Enter this competition at your own risk.

Read about how I fooled them to join as a validator last year at the Oman Web Awards.

Read about our participating in the Oman Web Awards 2005.

We would like to congratulate Dawood Al Kiyumi for receiving the highest number of votes in the poll we held. Dawood Al Kiyumi won a special Oman3D Certificate, one Oman3D t-shirt, and a Nitendo DS.

Nabhan Abdullatif came in second place with 5 votes, followed by Mohammed Al Asmar, then Asitha Amarakoon , and in the last position with no votes Majid Al Madi. All the other four finalists will also receive a special Oman3D certificate and one Oman3D t-shirt each. Congratulations to them as well!

Check out the winning artworks, click here.

We receive a number of amazing entries for our latest competition, help us choose the winner by voting here.

We hope that all of you are busy making submissions for our latest competition! One more week is remains until we stop receiving submissions. Good luck to everyone!

Just as we promised, our latest competition is international for everyone to join. This is a dead easy competition and we hope all of your participate. Learn all the details here. Feel free to post in the Forum if you have any questions.

The winner of our recent was finally announced! Check out who won by visiting this thread.

Help us select the winner of our latest competition by voting here!

The submission session has now ended, a poll for the top three qualifying entries shall be started soon. Thanks for everyone that participated in this competition.