Platform 4, best described as the geeky arm of UK TV station Channel 4, has announced a widget contest at the WidgetyGoodness conference in Brighton today.
The broadcaster is offering £1500 to the most creative mash-up of Channel 4’s Film4 RSS feeds. Two runners up will also get £250. They will create a gallery of all the mash-ups received that meet the judging criteria. The full guidelines of the competition are outlined here. The submission deadline is 10th January 2008 at 5:00pm. And winners will be announced on 8th February 2008. First prize is £1500 cash with two runners-up prizes of £250 cash each. As an example of the kind of application that can be created using the film site’s content, have a look at the Movie Tag Facebook application, created by Nooked.
Hi Mike
Thanks for the mention. Great to hook up at widgetygoodness… had to leave early so missed the party !!
Talk Soon
Fergus
I went to Widgety Goodness last week in Brighton and it was a great conference. I didn’t realise that the application/gadget/widget (whatever the official name is) industry was so well developed and producing high quality stuff.
At the moment I find the hardest thing is to get a viral effect or getting people to use widgets in large numbers. An example is the Office ASBO on facebook: http://apps.facebook.com/officeasbo. It’s a great application but hard to get through to people when everyone has over 10 application invites/loads of notifications etc. Is there already a facebook overload?