Posts Tagged with ‘contest’

Playyoo just launched a public beta mobile social networking platform that allows game developers to interface with users. Playyoo's Game Streams are an easy way to discover and download games by utilizing intelligent filtering to ensure that only relevant games from within their networks. The big draw for this service is that developers can create their own Adobe Flash Lite games and then distribute them to the community. This news is accompanied by the announcement that Playyoo is sponsoring a [...]

Today we profile another startup contestant slated to present its business plan at the LeWeb 3 competition tomorrow. It?s called ZYB, and if I may say so myself, it appears at first glance to be almost completely useless. Or not. Honestly, I can?t decide.
ZYB, in a nutshell, is a Web-based contact storage service. According to the company?s homepage copy, ZYB ?stores your phone?s contacts, calendar and messages online and connects you with people you know.? Which, in my view, [...]

Yahoo!, in a seeming bid to make its name more attractive to greater swaths of developers throughout the world, debuted last year the first in its series of Open Hack Day events in September in its hometown of Sunnyvale, California, followed by a London event in June of this year, and most recently at the Taj Residency in Bangalore, India, last weekend.
The Asian edition of Open Hack Day, held on October 5th, brought together roughly “100 Web developers, who toiled [...]

In 22 days, on October 1st, Mashup Challenge will launch, offering developers an interesting twist on creating new web 2.0 mashups.
For those of you who are not exactly sure of what a mashup is, it is "a combination of one or more data sources to create a unified interface and experience." For example, Dewspot is a mashup that integrates features of Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps, and Flickr into one central service.
So what's so different the Mashup Challenge? Well, it [...]

MySpace recently announced that it will be teaming up with the FOX television network and the Producers Guild of America to find television pilots. The “Storyteller Challenge,” beginning September 4, will be a contest in which MySpace will ask for 5-to 7-minute television pilots to be submitted and voted on by the other users of the site. Two winners will then be chosen and rewarded with a $25,000 prize, as well as the possibility of a development deal with [...]

Uvouch, one of the Web's most unique video sharing sites is starting a contest today, and launching several unique user features as well. Contestants stand a chance to win a Nintendo Wii Sports console and other cool prizes. Uvouch has also added even more functionality since our last visit with customization and embedding tools not found on even the most advanced video sharing communities. The Wii contest is a welcome incentive to attract even more feedback from users and in rewarding users [...]

Gochongo! The name has a ring to it doesn't it? The startup GoChongo just entered private beta testing April 1st and is scheduled for public testing by today. The site is a community where a contest format is used in order to put artists and producers together. The twist here is that any person or business can be the producer by simply posting a project.
The way this works is a user submits or produces a concept which is in turn [...]

OurStage is a well done community talent contest. Users post videos or songs and the rest of the community votes on them. The top of each channel gets a $100 prize at the end of the month, and the entry with the most votes out of all the channels gets the grand prize of $5,000 each month. Their site makes it practically impossible to cheat, so artists with the most votes really have votes from the same amount of people [...]

Digg held a party Thursday evening, and we weren’t invited. That’s okay, we’re sure the invitation just got lost in the mail. Maybe we should’ve double-checked our spam folders. They may have been “accidentally” sidetracked onto a route reserved for outcasts and unwanteds. Yikes. Anyhow, it’s cool, no hard feelings. We’ll still wave to Rose and Adelson and gang in the hallway, only maybe a half-mast for a little while.
The party hosted by Digg was first and foremost held [...]