Harris Interactive has just concluded their annual survey of 2,351 adults in the USA, known as their "Best Brands" poll. They've found that Sony is still ruling the roost (for the 7th year in a row!). Although some gamers may not be happy about the price of the PS3, this poll might be seen to show that their attitudes might change when the PS3 actually starts selling.

Microsoft, which made it into the top ten last year, didn't manage enough votes this time around. Sony is the only company in the list this year that deals with video games.

According to the survey, here are the ten Best Brands for 2006:

1. Sony
2. Dell
3. Coca-Cola
4. Toyota
5. Ford
6. Honda
7. Hewlett Packard
8. General Electric
9. Kraft Foods
10. Apple

Other brands that receive a substantial number of mentions but not enough to make the top-10 list included Chevrolet, Panasonic, Pepsi Cola, Nike and Maytag.

TeamOverload from our forums has started a 2.70 Flash Competition (for the Playstation Portable). This is much like Hardrive's competition earlier this month, but the reward has been improved, and hopefully more contestants will enter. I, as FrozenIpaq, am fully supporting this competition and hope that you will all enter who have knowledge of flash producing. We will be grateful for all entries received.

 

So, I'm proud to announce our forums first "official" flash competition. This competition will not only include applications and games, but also flash portals. Although, these will be split into two categories of Flash Portals and Flash Games/Applications. The contest was originally for portals, but we have extended it for all flash applications, but separated portals from games/apps to ensure a "fair" fight. So, now that you know there are two flash categories, you are probably wondering what the prizes are.

 

There are small prizes for each category which include -

 

Flash Portals -

1st Place - 25,000 forum points + Free Premium Membership + Free Custom User Title

2nd Place - 10,000 forum points + Free Custom User Title

3rd - 5,000 forum points OR Free Custom User Title.

 

Flash Applications/Games

1st Place - 25,000 forum points + Free Premium Membership + Free Custom User Title

2nd Place - 10,000 forum points + Free Custom User Title

3rd - 5,000 forum points OR Free Custom User Title.

 

Now, you are probably wondering how the voting/choosing is operated. This of course, will be where you come in. At the end of the competition we will have a forum poll that will allow all of our users to vote for who they think should win. So, the winners of the competition are not chosen by us, but you!

 

If you are interested in this contest, all of the requirements are listed after the jump or in the forum thread. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments or the thread, I will do my best to answer them.

[UPDATE] The deadline is now July 29th, this should be enough to make some good flash applications/games.