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The last round of judging calls for an amazing group of guest judges, and I think you guys will be pleasantly surprised.
Drum roll.
First off, as a thanks for some extraordinary forum community leadership, we’ve invited two of our members to judge for the finals:
- Russell Heistuman, better known around these parts as the man behind Ground Control
- Stephen, or “step,” for emerging as the forum community’s most respected participant.
And our celebrity judges for this round:
- Amber MacArthur, popular tech blogger, co-host of MacBreak Weekly, and host of the television shows “Torrent” and “Call for Help” on G4TechTV.
- Bruce Horn, one of the members of the Macintosh team and the creator of the Finder.
- Jon Hicks, popular UI and icon designer, creator of the Firefox icon.
- Guy Kawasaki, Popular author, managing director for venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures, columnist for Forbes.com, and former Apple evangelist.
- Steve Wozniak, Co-founder of Apple and author of the recently released iWoz.
Update: J Allard, father of the Xbox and the upcoming iPod competitor, the zune, will also be providing comments. (And thanks to J for the copies of Microsoft Office!)
The finals will begin tomorrow morning.
