Channel 4 launches widget contest
December 6 Mike Butcher
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.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Comments
December 9th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Hi Mike
Thanks for the mention. Great to hook up at widgetygoodness… had to leave early so missed the party !!
Talk Soon
Fergus
December 12th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
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?