Groublogpon – The Serious Blog of Groupon

Cashing in on an unbeatable Groupon discount at your local theatre is always a smart decision. Donning a full-on Evil Dead ensemble for a three movie, eight hour movie marathon? Now that’s worth $100 Groupon Bucks! Just ask our March Photo Contest winner, Jaci:

“I had a Groupon for the RIO Theatre in East Vancouver. I saved it for a special occasion…A 3 film spectacular! They were doing an Evil Dead Marathon, so my friend and I dressed up and went to 8 hours of movie madness. I was the first in line! 3 movies each and a large popcorn…what a deal!!”

Jaci’s enthusiasm scores her a cool $100 Groupon Bucks as this month’s winner. Of course, by accepting the prize, Jaci has committed to dressing up in an appropriate theme every time she redeems a Groupon for the rest of her life.

Is your story better than Jaci’s? Send a photo of you redeeming your Groupon to pictures@groupon.com to qualify. Just remember – your voucher must be included in the photo for a chance to win.

And finally, don’t forget to check out our Flickr stream for all of the fun pics we receive. Some of our current favorites include these cute froyo fans, a daring zipliner and this impromptu lion taming experience.

Aaron, one of Groupon’s social media strategists and also founder of Pets Are Superheroes, brings us this post about our developers attending WindyCityGo:

On Saturday, April 9, we’ll be taking on the attendees of WindyCityGo, Chicago’s Mobile Developers Conference, in a no holds barred mobile application development battle royale. If you’re not intrigued you either don’t have a pulse or you don’t have an interest in mobile application development. It’s one or the other. It can’t be both.

Users often make suggestions about different aspects about the Groupon experience. What’s exciting about Groupon Octagon is that we’ll be partnering conference attendees with members of Groupon’s mobile development team to go through the entire process of developing a mobile Groupon application. In one day. From conception to building to using. Remember when your business was waiting for weeks for your website to get built? This is not like that at all.

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Today Groupon’s legal department sent employees this message:

April Fools™ and hello, everyone.

As many of you may have noticed by now, the press have picked up on our latest corporate acquisition—a pending patent that would afford Groupon all legal rights to what is now known as Groupon Presents April Fools’ Day™.

Excerpt from Groupon's April Fools’ Day™ Patent Application

Learn what you can do to protect our intellectual property by visiting our informational page and following @GrouponLegal on Twitter for periodic updates throughout the day. We have already begun sending cease and desist letters to companies and individuals who are ILLEGALLY purporting their own April 1st-centric hoaxes and deviations—including Google, YouTube and @TylerCoates.

Check out the site, follow us, and re-tweet throughout the day. Only YOU can help enforce the law—so that everyone can have fun.

Safe, legal fun,

The Groupon Legal Department

Groupon Presents April Fools’™ Team

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