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Sky News Web Application Competition Anyone interested??
Web developers have the chance to compete for a share of a £10,000 prize in a competition launched by Sky News Online.
Best brains will be invited to studio
Talented developers can use the feeds to create their own applications.
The brains with the best ideas will be invited to a Dragons' Den-style judgment day at the Sky News studios.
Entries must be in by Friday 30th November to newsonline@bskyb.com. Please put 'Developer Competition' in the subject field.
Judgement Day is Thursday 20st December.
Terms and conditions arehere.
FEEDS:
Bespoke XML for all content on the homepage
Use this feed to make a gadget/widget or better our homepage with a new application.
RSS
Homepage Stories
UK Homepage Stories
World Homepage Stories
Business Homepage Stories
Strange But True Stories
By adding "-v1" to any of the above feeds you can get the breaking news flag to cater for our breaking news e.g. Sky News | Strange News | First For Breaking News
Video Carousel XML feeds which that build the Video Page (make an improved Video homepage.)
Latest Headline Tab
Features
Most Watched
Strange But True
Showbiz
Picture Gallery Feeds:
Latest News
World In View
Strange News
Feed of individual Picture Galleries and their list of images
We don't want to stifle your creativity, but here are some suggested directions:
Client side apps overview:
- flash based apps (carousels, daylife ingest of feeds etc..)
- gadgets
- widgets
- aggregators and displays of content
- picture galleries
- mapping
- second life (virtual worlds) what else can we do in this space?
- semantic web how to apply this to content
Join the Facebook group for the competition.
Enter Our Web Application Competition |Sky News|Technology
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