Tonight is the 82nd annual Academy Awards. Some people watch the show for the movies. Some watch it for the glamor. And some, watch it to gamble. And Google is making that easier than ever.
While the show is almost always way too long, one way to get into it is to have an Oscar pool, where everyone picks who they think will win in each category. Google has set up a special Google Docs template that allows you to easily create this pool and send it to all your friends. It’s so simple, that you can even set it up to be filled out right within an email.
When you send the email to a friend, they’ll be asked to enter their name, and then simply select who they think will be the winner in each category. Google has already populated all of this data in the template, so there’s really nothing more for you to do. When they send this information back, it will be imported into a Google Spreadsheet, so you can compare the data from all your friends. You can also see a more visual “summary” of the data.
Categories such as “Best Short Film (Live Action)” also ensure that this can be a pretty fun drinking game, as well. You have a few hours til the show, get picking.
It’s just me or I feel a beef between TechCrunch and Microsoft.
I didn’t read any meaningful news on Microsoft. All the other tech news websites are covering them.
So, what’s up with that?
Maybe it’s just me.
wait, what? what does this have to do with microsoft? you lost me.
I agree with you buddy Mathiew ,…
I think goog and appl each pay MG Siegler and Techcrunch $1 for every article of goog/aapl and $10 of every bad article on MSFT and YHOO…
and the above is irrespective of what the companise sell.. be it invading privacy goog buzz or pads….
if there is bad news on MS, then MG will be first in line to report it. I’m not sure if all of TechCrunch is biased against MS, but it does appear certain bloggers are. No big surprise — there are always some people that support or are against companies. Although most make it more apparent (like Paul Thurrot or Jon Gruber — no question where they stand).
No, too many questions. It should end at best documentary. No one gives a flying c*nt about best sound editing and best make-up.
Did you see the secret column after the form is submitted to your spreadsheet?
It reads
Extra Cuntest: Please write below your best porn film names for any of the nominated films.
Who put this form up? They will make some people laugh and some angry.
While I think Avatar will win, I think District 9 deserves it and really hope for a miracle that would make them the winner. It is much harder to make a viewer feel empathy for creepy gross bugs than half naked beautiful humanoids. What would make it even sweeter is if District 9 stole every award from Avatar. http://www.baduku.com/topics/oscar-nominee-for-best-picture_1197
The form takes 4 pages when printed out. It’d be nice if Google at least used two columns, when printed.
Just used this – very handy, thanks!
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHhIX3JWc3hIYzk3ZFZ5Z3VFZGlEeEE6MA
I bet there are at least 100 tech companies that covered the Oscars better (in a more original, fun and elaborated way!). I’d preferred that TC covered one of them.
What’s the next news? Google made a static page for the elections!?