Your Facebook photos = Bing's new home page


	Your Facebook photos = Bing's new home page
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4067db05-9c40-449b-9409-dbe21928e696/FDB89A06-98CD-43C5-B9B0-68B06CE21810/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/" href="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mashable.com/img/3CC17DE7-1BC5-493B-A078-C099E67256CC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/"><P class="vcard"><STRONG class="dtreviewed">July 1st, 2009 | by <A title="Posts by Adam Ostrow" href="http://mashable.com/author/adam-ostrow/">Adam Ostrow</A></STRONG><SPAN class="comments"><A rel="comment" href="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/#comments"></A><A wpid="130560" href="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/#disqus_thread" class="dsq-comment-count">3 Comments</A></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/"><P><IMG align="right" alt="bing" src="http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bing-logo.jpg" />One of the unique aspects of <SPAN class="blippr-nobr">Bing<SPAN class="blippr-nobr"><A class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-05" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/393174-bing.whtml" target="_blank" href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/393174-bing"><SPAN> (</SPAN><IMG alt="bing" src="http://static1.blippr.com/images/inline-face_05.png?1237094634" class="wp-smiley" /><SPAN>)</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN> is the background images it uses on its homepage, that include information about the picture when you roll over various parts of it.  The feature actually <A href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/30/live-search-homepage/">originated</A> on the previous incarnation of Microsoft’s search engine – Live.com.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/"><P>Now, the search engine is turning over the homepage image to <SPAN class="blippr-nobr">Facebook<SPAN class="blippr-nobr"><A class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-05" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336650-Facebook.whtml" target="_blank" href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336650-Facebook"><SPAN> (</SPAN><IMG alt="Facebook" src="http://static1.blippr.com/images/inline-face_05.png?1237094634" class="wp-smiley" /><SPAN>)</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN> users, at least for a day.  The company has launched a <A target="_blank" href="http://apps.facebook.com/bing_photo_contest/">Facebook application</A> that lets users upload their own photos (with a summer travel theme) for consideration and vote on those uploaded by others.  Ultimately, the Bing team will select finalists from the highest rated photos and then let users vote again to determine which image will be featured on the homepage on August 3rd.
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</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/"><P>It’s worth noting that <SPAN class="blippr-nobr">Google<SPAN class="blippr-nobr"><A class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-07" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336661-Google.whtml" target="_blank" href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/336661-Google"><SPAN> (</SPAN><IMG alt="Google" src="http://static1.blippr.com/images/inline-face_07.png?1237094634" class="wp-smiley" /><SPAN>)</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN> also turns over its homepage to users one day per year, as kids compete in the <A href="http://mashable.com/2008/02/13/google-logo-contest/">Doodle4Google</A> competition for a shot at having their quirky interpretations of Google’s logo seen by millions.  </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/bing-homepage-contest/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mashable.com/img/9D616501-6135-4943-83A5-B8CA7EFFC18B" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FDB89A06-98CD-43C5-B9B0-68B06CE21810/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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