“But the conversation is just getting started,” Google says. That’s true, as further evidenced by words from Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley at Mobile World Congress and a recent sighting of Mark Zuckerberg talking to Sergey Brin about the device (not to mention this TMZ “interview”).

Google says this on the page now:

Thank you so much to everyone who applied to be a Glass Explorer.

We have been overwhelmed, entertained and inspired by your responses. #ifihadglass is now closed and we will be notifying successful applicants soon. If you don’t hear from us, don’t despair! There will be more chances to get Glass at a later date.

If you would like to stay informed about Glass, you can sign up here.

There is a form on the page where you can sign up to stay informed.

Google has said that Google Glass will be available to all by the end of the year, and that they will cost less than the $1,500 early contest winners have to pay.

They’re giving away prizes like a $100 Amex Gift Card and a NOOK HD – 8GB.

Each day, they’re putting out a List Of The Day with what they consider to be some of the best stumbles of the year. The lists can be found on the sweepstakes page. You can just stumble through the list, and winners will stumble upon the prize somewhere in the mix.

The lists are published at midnight.

“The odds of winning a prize depend on the total number of users who participate in the Sweepstakes each day of the Sweepstakes,” the company says. “No cash or other substitution of prizes is permitted, except at the sole option of StumbleUpon for a prize of equal or greater value. StumbleUpon will not replace any lost or stolen prizes. Winners are solely responsible for any and all federal, state, provincial and local taxes, if any, that apply to prizes.”

Winners will be notified by email within seven days.

In lieu of new Spartan Ops episodes, Microsoft will be holding a contest, the “Halo 4 Infinity Challenge.” The contest is a tournament that will track gamers’ personal score in War Games or the number of Spartan Ops chapters they complete. Microsoft is bragging that players of all skill levels have a shot at winning one of over 2,800 prizes. The grand prize for the War Games leaderboard winner is a UNSC-themed 2013 Ford F-150 truck. The Spartan Ops grand prize winner will win an appearance in two-minute appearance in Halo 5.

The contest begins on December 17, but players can sign up starting today. From December 17 until January 10, players will compete in a qualifier phase, after which players will be tiered into three groups for the finals.

Before the contest even begins, however, 343 Industries and Microsoft are releasing 3 new multiplayer maps through the “Crimson Map Pack” DLC. The content will be available on December 10 and a preview of the maps can be seen here.

AMC has now announced a sweepstakes that gives fans a chance to win the Hyundai Tucson featured in the show or a chance to be in Activision’s upcoming The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct video game.

To enter, you need to tune into the premiere broadcast of the show each Sunday night, watch for the three code words during the commercial breaks, and submit them at the website. They’ll choose a new winner each week to be a character in the game.

You must enter the correct codes every week for a chance to win the Hyundai Tucson. More details on the sweepstakes here.

Now, as you get ready for the new season, be sure to check out the new webisodes and/or revisit the last season on Netflix (there’s also a marathon on AMC this weekend).

More The Walking Dead fun here.

That’s how it feels anyway, with Borderlands 2 having some of the best trailers of the year, an unbelievably cool limited edition of the game, and a playable 16-bit version called The Border Lands, complete with 80s-era cardboard game boxes and a faked YouTube review from 1989.

Today, just four days until the release of Borderlands 2, Gearbox has announced a new contest for in the form of an online social game. Called “Mount Jackmore,” it is a simple web game on the Borderlands 2 website that tasks players with shooting a version of Handsome Jack’s (this guy’s) face that has been carved into stone. Prizes will be awarded to players who destroy parts of the face. The shooting for all players goes on in real time, so players will be able to see their competition picking away at the face. Players will receive 100 bullets per day, but can earn more by “sharing” the game with a friend.

Unfortunately for those in the U.S., the game is only available to those in the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Russia, and Australia. Take a look at the trailer for the contest below:

And you can help make sure that the Pumpkin Spice Latte debuts in your city first. All you have to do is interact with Starbucks on Facebook.

For the second year in a row, Starbucks is holding the Pumpkin Spice Latte Challenge on Facebook. Beginning today, the challenge sees Starbucks fans competing to earn points for their city through shares on Facebook and Twitter, and various mini-games including word searches, trivia, and artistic contests.

Starbucks currently has over 31.4 million likes on Facebook.

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The city with the most points will be the first to receive Starbucks’ famous beverage. The company picks one U.S. and one Canadian city as winners. Last year Chicago and Calgary were the lucky locations, with Chicago garnering 7.3% of all the points in the U.S. and Calgary taking 16% of the Canadian points.

This Saturday, the Carolina Panthers tackle the Houston Texans, and Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams wants to make the game special – by performing one your your touchdown celebrations.

Williams has posted a video to Facebook, asking his fans to post videos of their own endzone dances. He says that the best one will get its moment in primetime, as he’ll perform it if he scores a touchdown during the preseason.

Here’s what he had to say in the video:

In light of Saturday’s first game against the Houston Texans, I want to run this. For four weeks I’m gonna get a chance to choose between you guys. I want you to put it under my comment box, I wanna get you guys involved in the game. This is what I’m gonna do: I’m gonna give you an opportunity, right now, underneath. I want you to comment and post a link of you doing your best touchdown celebration. The best one , if I score on Saturday or throughout this preseason, I’ll do your endzone celebration.

Hundreds of comments have poured in, but not everyone is fully understanding DWill’s request. A lot of people are posting videos to generic dances, and there are quite a few suggestion for “The Carlton.” He does have some originals pouring in, although I can’t attest to their quality:

But hey, anything to spice up the preseason is cool in my book.

[h/t AllFacebook]

March 31st was the deadline for submissions to the contest. When YouTube announced Your Film Festival, they said that is was a free-entry, free-form contest. That meant that submission from filmmakers could take one of any formats – short film, web-series episode, TV pilot – whatever. Voting took place in June, and the list of 50 finalists was cut to 10. Those ten will now compete for the grand prize in Venice.

According to the YouTube blog, over 3 million people voted for the Your Film Festival finalists, and they selected these ten entries:

• 88:88, Joey Ciccoline & Sean Wilson (USA)
• Bat Eyes, Damien Power (Australia)
• Cine Rincao, Fernando Grostein Andrade & Fernanda Fernandes (Brazil)
• The Drought, Kevin Slack (USA)
• El General, Diego Pino Zamora (Bolivia)
• The Guilt, David Victori Blaya (Spain)
• North Atlantic, Bernardo Nascimento (United Kingdom)
• Super.Full., Niam Itani (Lebanon)
• Scruples, Adrian Powers (Australia)
• This Time, Ramy EL-Gabry (Egypt)

These finalists’ trip to Venice will include a pitch to director Ridley Scott, and the panel of judges will include actor Michael Fassbender. The grand prize winner will not only receive half a million dollars for future projects, but will get to work on that new project with Fassbender and Scott.

You can check out the finalists here. All of the films are under 15 minutes.

It’s called the MyMoneyAppUp Challenge, and it’s actually comprised of two separate but parallel contests that both ask for ideas about how to build a great financial app.

Today, the Dept. of Treasury has announced the contest(s) official judges, and they come from places like Facebook, Google, Harvard, and NBC. The final round judges include Facebook’s Platform Marketing head Katie Burke Mitic, Google’s Jonathan Weiner, Jean Chatzky of The Today Show, Entrepreneur Carol Realini, Omidyar Network’s Chris Bishko, and Harvard Professor of Economics Sendhil Mullainathan.

One contest, “App Design,” asks entrants to submit a 3-5 page app proposal along with images describing the app. Submissions for this close on August 12th. Entrants have a chance at two $2,500 Honorable Mention prizes, two $5,000 Runner-Up prizes, and one $10,000 Grand prize.

The smaller contest is called “IdeaBank,” and asks for simple app ideas in 140 characters or less. Submission for this part end on August 1st. Cash prizes for the IdeaBank range from $250 to $1000.

Judging begins on August 13th and will run until September 19th. On the day after the judging period ends, the winners will be announced.

And this year, five lucky businesses will win $25,000 in cash. Not only that, but they will get to work with AMEX and Facebook “branding experts,” who will tutor them in marketing and social media strategy.

“The winners will learn how to use Facebook to build their brands and better market their products and services to their existing customer base and reach new customer segments. Each winner will get practical and personal training on best practices using Facebook Pages, Ads and Social Plugins, and will receive consultation on their current use of Facebook.”

All small businesses have to do is go to the Facebook AMEX OPEN page and click “enter now.” The entry process involves a short questionnaire where the entrants explain how they would use the contest winnings to improve and grow their small business. They have until 11:59 ET on July 13th to enter.

The top 10 entries will be hand-picked by AMEX OPEN Social Media VP Laura Fink, Facebook head of Global Marketing Communications Heather Freeland, and others including Bonobos CEO Andy Dunn. Once they narrow down the finalists, the five winners will be selected by Facebook users via online vote.

According to AMEX and Facebook, finalists will be judged on “commitment to their business and growth, commitment to the community that fuels their business, overall social media and business need where American Express OPEN and Facebook could improve their business, and energy and enthusiasm for the entrepreneurial community.

If your’re a small business looking to increase your social media presence, it can’t hurt to sign up. You can receive some marketing tools and $50 in Facebook advertising credits just for entering. The ten runners-up will additionally receive $2,500 in advertising credits.

If you want to read about last year’s winners, be sure to check out the Big Break portal.