06 Feb 12 New Web Development Contest: SharedBook Offers Open API Challenge
New York (PRWEB) August 30, 2007
SharedBook Inc., the Reverse Publishing Platform provider, is hosting the SharedBook Open API Challenge, a Web development contest to award the best extensions from third party applications to SharedBook in three different categories: social networking, photo sharing and desktop applications or collaborative online communities. Entries will be accepted through Sept. 30.
The SharedBook Open API Challenge http://www.sharedbook.com/apichallenge is open to extensions from any third party applications that flow their text, photographs or other content into SharedBook’s Reverse Publishing Platform for on-demand output.
SharedBook’s Open API enables the automatic flow of Web content into a structured book product that can be previewed and purchased immediately, or personalized further. This provides a means for Web sites to monetize archived materials and user-generated content and build brand awareness through the book’s pass along value.
Developers can build extensions to connect any Web site with content that could be useful in printed book format to SharedBook. This information might include branded content, statistical information or user-generated content, for example, which can be found on gardening, online dating, real estate, sports, travel, and weight loss sites, among others.
A panel of five will evaluate the entries based on their business utility, originality and technical elegance including Dion Almaer, Co-founder of Ajaxian.com, and Benny Schlesinger, Chief Technical Officer, Jacada, Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA).
“Our developers inspired this contest when they were able to show us a working example of the Blog2Print blog printing widget in a few days,” said Caroline Vanderlip, Chief Executive Officer, SharedBook Inc. “We look forward to seeing what other types of connections the Web development community can build to SharedBook’s API quickly, and hope to review some concepts that we haven’t considered.”
Web developers have produced API wrappers and components connecting clients to SharedBook’s platform using Java, PHP and Python languages to date. Interested participants are welcome to use the source material available at http://www.sharedbook.com/dev/resources.html as a starting point.
Projects can be installed as plug-ins to existing online applications or implemented as standalone Web applications. There is no limitation to the number of submissions that an individual or a team can enter.
These are some more specific examples of the types of third party applications that could be integrated into SharedBook’s Reverse Publishing Platform by category:
1. Connect SharedBook to a Social Networking Site
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05 Feb 12 SharedBook Enhances API Contest and Extends Entry Deadline to Oct. 31
New York, NY (PRWEB) October 3, 2007
SharedBook Inc., the Reverse Publishing Platform provider, enhanced the SharedBook Open API Challenge http://www.sharedbook.com/apichallenge today – offering the winners a 20 percent share of any books sold from their development efforts, and extending the entry deadline to Oct. 31. As an additional incentive, any developers that participate are now eligible to receive a 10 percent share of any book proceeds that result from their contest entry.
Using the SharedBook open application programming interface (API) http://www.sharedbook.com/dev, developers can flow content from any Web site – archived materials, database content, photographs and user-generated content, among other items – into a structured book product that can be purchased immediately, or personalized further.
The SharedBook Open API Challenge will award the best extensions from third party applications to SharedBook in three categories: 1) social networking, 2) photo sharing, and 3) desktop applications or collaborative online communities.
Base pricing for the API books is set at $ 19.95 for softcover and $ 27.95 for hardcover. Therefore, the winning developers will receive a minimum of $ 3.99 each time a book sells as a result of their development. Winners will also receive their choice of an OpenMoko Neo 1973 mobile phone, an 8GB iPhone? or $ 500.
“We realize that it takes time to create a working demo and we want to ensure that interested developers cannot lose by entering this contest,” said Caroline Vanderlip, Chief Executive Officer, SharedBook Inc. “Any concept that reaches the working demo stage has the potential to become a full solution, which now entitles the developer to at least a 10 percent share of any books sold as a result of their efforts.”
A panel of five will evaluate the entries based on their business utility, originality and technical elegance including Dion Almaer, Co-founder of Ajaxian.com, and Benny Schlesinger, Chief Technical Officer, Jacada, Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA).
These are some specific examples of the types of third party applications that could be integrated into SharedBook’s Reverse Publishing Platform by category:
1. Connect SharedBook to a Social Networking Site
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27 Jan 12 Ten Days Left to Enter SharedBook’s Web Development Contest
New York, NY (PRWEB) October 22, 2007
SharedBook Inc., the Reverse Publishing Platform provider, announced today that entries for the SharedBook Open API Challenge will close Wednesday, Oct. 31 at midnight. The contest will award the best extensions from third party applications to SharedBook in three categories: 1) social networking, 2) photo sharing, and 3) desktop applications or collaborative online communities.
Using the SharedBook open application programming interface (API) developers can flow content from any Web site – archived materials, database content, photographs and user-generated content, among other items – into a structured book product that can be purchased immediately, or personalized further.
Projects can be installed as plug-ins to existing online applications or implemented as standalone Web applications. API wrappers and components connecting clients to SharedBook’s Reverse Publishing Platform using Java, PHP and Python languages are available at http://www.sharedbook.com/dev/resources.html.
“Developers should know that they cannot lose by participating in the SharedBook Open API Challenge,” said Caroline Vanderlip, Chief Executive Officer, SharedBook Inc. “The contest is structured to reward all participants by offering a 10 percent share of any books sold as a result of their development efforts. Twenty percent is available to the winners in each category for any books sold as a result of their entry.”
Base pricing for the API books is set at $ 19.95 for softcover and $ 27.95 for hardcover. Therefore, the winning developers will receive a minimum of $ 3.99 each time a book sells as a result of their development. Winners will also receive their choice of an OpenMoko Neo 1973 mobile phone, an 8GB iPhone? or $ 500.
A panel of five will evaluate the entries based on their business utility, originality and technical elegance including Dion Almaer, Co-founder of Ajaxian.com, and Benny Schlesinger, Chief Technical Officer, Jacada, Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCDA).
For more information, please go to http://www.sharedbook.com/apichallenge.
About SharedBook
SharedBook Inc. is a technology company that specializes in integrating and publishing data from various sources into a structured book product that can sit as a flipbook on the Internet or be professionally printed. The company’s collaborative on-demand Reverse Publishing Platform allows users to extract data and content from multiple sources, manipulate it, and then distribute their unique creation in digital or hard copy format. SharedBook partners include AYSO
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20 Oct 11 FiveRuns Announces TuneUp Contest
Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 10, 2008
FiveRuns is launching a contest for one TuneUp user and a guest to win a trip to RailsConf Europe.
Highlights / Key Facts
FiveRuns TuneUp, just launched in May, is a free socially networked application profiling tool for Ruby on Rails developers:
Upload your application profile (“Run”) to the FiveRuns TuneUp service and seek help from your colleagues or the Ruby on Rails developer community at large.
Browse other public developer “Runs” and similar application configurations.
Use your experience to help comment on and solve performance issues in the community.
FiveRuns is launching a contest for one TuneUp user and a guest to win a trip to RailsConf Europe:
Help populate the FiveRuns TuneUp community by posting “Runs” and enter to win a trip to RailsConf Europe, September 2-4, 2008.
Both existing FiveRuns TuneUp users and new users are eligible. To enter, post a run of your Rails code between the dates of July 10 and August 8.
FiveRuns will conduct a random drawing out of all the runs submitted. The winner will receive two roundtrip tickets to RailsConf Europe, accommodations in Berlin, and two full conference passes to RailsConf Europe 2008.
Relevant Announcements
Why we built TuneUp? — http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/6/2/tuneup
FiveRuns Releases Public Beta of TuneUp and General Availability of Manage 2.0 — http://www.fiveruns.com/pr/tuneup_manage_releases
Tags / Keywords
FiveRuns, Ruby on Rails, Rails, TuneUp, Open Source, Manage, RailsConf Europe, Rails application performance, Rails application profiler, Rails scalability
Links / URLs
FiveRuns TuneUp Contest: http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/7/10/run-your-way-to-railsconf-europe
FiveRuns.org: http://blog.fiveruns.com/opensource
Github: http://github.com/fiveruns/fiveruns_tuneup/tree/master
RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/fiveruns
FiveRuns Blog: http://blog.fiveruns.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/fiveruns
About FiveRuns
FiveRuns provides an end-to-end ecosystem of tools around Ruby on Rails, including its flagship monitoring and management tool, FiveRuns Manage. Built on Rails and delivered as a hosted service, FiveRuns’ products enable organizations to save money and reduce operational complexity by managing the entire Ruby on Rails application lifecycle – from installation to production. For more information or to start a free trial subscription, visit FiveRuns.com.
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09 Oct 11 Codewalkers.com announces latest PHP Coding Contest.
(PRWEB) August 2, 2002
http://codewalkers.com/”>Codewalkers.com> has posted their latest PHP Coding Contest. In this latest challenge scripts will compete head to head in a game of Capture the Flag. The object of the game is to capture the other scripts flag or eliminate the other script. The script with the best battle plan wins! The prizes include a Zend t-shirt, a copy of Zend Studio 2.5, and a copy of PHP Developer’s Dictionary from Sams Publishing. For more information, see the official contest page at http://codewalkers.com/php-contest.php”>http://codewalkers.com/php-contest.php
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http://codewalkers.com/”>Codewalkers.com> is a community site dedicated to the PHP developer. They host a bi-weekly PHP Coding Contest to help promote the use of PHP.
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18 Jul 10 Codewalkers releases new PHP Coding Contest
(PRWEB) July 17, 2002
Codewalkers.com has posted their latest PHP Coding Contest. This challenge is to create a crossword puzzle from a word list. The prizes include a Zend t-shirt, a copy of Zend Studio 2.5, and a copy of PHP and MySQL Web Development from Sams Publishing. For more information, see the official contest page at http://codewalkers.com/php-contest.php
Codewalkers.com is a community site dedicated to the PHP developer. They host a bi-weekly PHP Coding Contest to help promote the use of PHP.
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