Tag: WINNERS

The Android Developer Challenge is a Google initiative that throws a bunch of money toward the development community to encourage the creation of great Android apps. The prizes are no small potatoes, either. In the just-completed ADC2, $100,000 prizes went to the winners in each of ten designated categories, with $50,000 for second and $25,000 for third. There was also an additional $150,000, ...

Digg, your favorite social news site, ran a contest to celebrate and promote the release of the Digg API. Entrants to the contest used both the Digg API and the Flash toolkit to create interesting works that could be viewed in flash and on the Adobe Apollo platform. Submissions ended on May 16th, and the work started for the judges who narrowed things down to the top 10. Criteria for the final ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Vista_Ultimate_Giveaway_winners_speak_their_minds'; Earlier this year we had a little contest where we gave away 3 shiny copies of Vista Ultimate. Our three lucky winners have had some time to bathe in the cooling waters of Vista, and this past week we heard back from two of them: AJ and Shannon. How did they feel about Vista? AJ wrote: I must say, that eye ...

We haven't been following the My Dream App contest as closely as our pals at TUAW, so in case you're not up to speed, here's the scoop: My Dream App is an "event where 24 finalists compete for a chance to have their dream app made into reality." At the contest's outset, people from all over the world submitted their ideas for the program of their dreams, and from those people a pool of 24 ...

VMware has announced the winners of its Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge, a contest which challenged teams to build preconfigured open source virtual machine images for VMware. I posted earlier this month about some of the very cool "Virtual Appliances" available at the VMware web site, and VMware's chosen winners are impressive indeed. The first prize winner is HowNetWorks, "a network ...

Last night was the awards ceremony for the 10th annual Webby Awards. I can't believe it's been ten years already. Though a popular topic of discussion among bloggers is whether the Webbys are really relevant, I do enjoy the five-word speeches mandated by the ceremony. Winning lifetime achievement awards were internet pioneer Dr. Robert Kahn ("discover digital objects and handles") and Prince ...

Last week Mozilla Corp. finally announced the winners of the Firefox Flicks contest, in which independent filmmakers submitted short ads promoting the open source darling web browser. The grand prize winner, selected by "accomplished entertainment and advertising judges including the talents behind Charlie’s Angels, American Pie, and Six Feet Under," is "Daredevil," by ...

Mozilla's Extend Firefox contest, which challenged developers to make cool extensions for Firefox 1.5, has come to a close and the winners have been announced. Winning the grand prizes were Michael Wu's Reveal for Best New Extension, Chris Pederick's Web Developer for Best Upgraded Extension, and Josep del Rio's Firefox Showcase for Best Use of Firefox 1.5 Features. Each of those developers will ...