Announcing SlideME Awards

[Shane Isbell]

SlideME Awards

Didn't win the Google challenge? Your application still has a future.

The SlideME awards are a showcase for up and coming Android applications. They act as a kind of forum where the entire developer community can review your application, provide useful feedback and ultimately, add value to applications you submit. They can also help put money in your pocket.

Not only will other developers be reviewing your applications but carriers and mobile content aggregators may find your application interesting as well, meaning you could end up getting more than just recognition.

The Android platform is the most promising open mobile platform around. It has built a strong, supportive community even in its infancy. The SlideME awards harness the power of this community for our users and the entire Android community. We want to help participating developers who produce better applications and get paid for them.

SlideME award voters will be able to select from any of the categories and score within a range from 1-5 (5 being best). 

• Collaboration
• Communications
• Developer / Programmer
• Educational / Reference
• Enterprise
• Entertainment
• Fun & Games
• Health & Fitness
• Home & Hobby
• Lifestyle
• Location & Maps
• Music
• Other
• Productivity
• Social Responsibility
• Travel
• Utilities

(If you have an idea for a category that you don't see here feel free to make a suggestion for future round of the SlideME awards by emailing awa...@slideme.org)

Application submission is now open

Rregister on slideme.org to stock your application. Voters will have either option to participate and interact with applications for the voting process:

1. SAM – (SlideME Application Manager)
2. SlideME.org website
3. SlideVille (our new desktop product or extension of Songbird Media Player)

Voting period & prizes will be announced in due time on slideme.org/awards accompanied with further press releases. You can also subscribe to our newsletter to keep up to date with announcements and award results. You can also join in the awards discussion at the SlideME Awards group.

 

About SlideME

SlideME offers products, services and experience that help promote small developers and their creative efforts, without locking the developer into any closed standards. We are focused on addressing and helping the developer gain quality assurance (QA) and potential financial rewards in this very exciting multi-billion dollar industry.

Our purpose is to create a new type of ecosystem characterized by open standards and no disruption in application delivery and distribution throughout the value chain.

To demonstrate our commitment to an open, free environment, we have contributed:

JVending - an open provisioning platform for distributing applications and serving as an application repository. Using JVending, a partner entity can adapt it to be part of an Open Repository Service, that will distribute your application across each of these repositories around the world. Distribution is streamlined - to aggregators and on to carriers by a single submission of your application to any of the repositories.

SAMce (SlideME Application Manager – Community Edition), a mobile/device Application Manager that allows any entity to adapt their own client for their own subscribers.

Best regards,

The SlideMe.org Team

[Alper Akgün]

Of all those 1788 applications, in 2 years:

1) I bet only 5 of the  financially most successful 50 apps, will be among the 50 winners this week.

2) I bet the 25% of the brightest among the 1738 losers,  will walk away from android development..
... and I bet most of them will regret after seeing their ideas implemented by others..

3) I bet the most of the most innovative 50 applications among 1788, lost due to their apparent lack of sophistication during the 2-minute-presentation to the judges.

4) I bet 10  web based apps - Foo - among the 1788, are better to be suited to a Google acquisition, to become "Google Foo",  and only 2 of them will among the winners this week.

5) I bet,  we ll see at least one interview from one the losers, in which the guy says  "I lost the developer challenge but won the real challenge".

6) I bet,  only 10 of the 50 winner apps will look truly innovative to others..

7)  From all those 1788 apps, 100 developers will be employed in Google and OHA members companies.

The winner does not take it all, so keep the faith, and go on to develop.

Cheers
Alper

[denisdsr20]

I may say, at least one of the 1788 teams involved in ADC is stuck
behind mails and forum ....

Good luck all

Denis / France
www.sr20service.com

[Incognito]

Don't know if I can enter this contest. Way to busy with J2ME and
IPhone at this point. Cannot afford to keep working on Android
anymore. But it is nice you are doing this and I'm sure many will try
it.

On May 7, 5:26 pm, "Shane Isbell" <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *SlideME Awards*
>
> *Didn't win the Google challenge? Your application still has a future.*
>
> *The SlideME awards <http://slideme.org/awards> are a showcase for up and

> coming Android applications. They act as a kind of forum where the entire
> developer community can review your application, provide useful feedback and
> ultimately, add value to applications you submit. They can also help put

> money in your pocket.*
>
> *Not only will other developers be reviewing your applications but carriers

> and mobile content aggregators may find your application interesting as

> well, meaning you could end up getting more than just recognition.*
>
> *The Android platform is the most promising open mobile platform around. It

> has built a strong, supportive community even in its infancy. The SlideME
> awards harness the power of this community for our users and the entire
> Android community. We want to help participating developers who produce

> better applications and get paid for them.* **
>
> *SlideME <http://slideme.org/>* award voters will be able to select from any

> of the categories and score within a range from 1-5 (5 being best).
>

>    - Collaboration
>    - Communications
>    - Developer / Programmer
>    - Educational / Reference
>    - Enterprise
>    - Entertainment
>    - Fun & Games
>    - Health & Fitness
>    - Home & Hobby
>    - Lifestyle
>    - Location & Maps
>    - Music
>    - Other
>    - Productivity
>    - Social Responsibility
>    - Travel
>    - Utilities

>
> (If you have an idea for a category that you don't see here feel free to
> make a suggestion for future round of the SlideME awards by emailing
> awa...@slideme.org)
>
> Application submission is now open
>

> Rregister on slideme.org <http://www.slideme.org/user/register> to stock

> your application. Voters will have either option to participate and interact
> with applications for the voting process:
>

>    1. *SAM* – (SlideME Application Manager)
>    2. *SlideME.org* website**
>    3. *SlideVille* (our new desktop product or extension of Songbird

>    Media Player)
>
> Voting period & prizes will be announced in due time on

> slideme.org/awardsaccompanied with further press releases. You can

> also subscribe to our
> newsletter to keep up to date with announcements and award results. You can

> also join in the awards discussion at the *SlideME Awards
> group<http://groups.google.com/group/slideme-awards>
> *.
>
> *About SlideME*

>
> SlideME offers products, services and experience that help promote small
> developers and their creative efforts, without locking the developer into
> any closed standards. We are focused on addressing and helping the developer
> gain quality assurance (QA) and potential financial rewards in this very
> exciting multi-billion dollar industry.
>
> Our purpose is to create a new type of ecosystem characterized by open
> standards and no disruption in application delivery and distribution
> throughout the value chain.
>
> To demonstrate our commitment to an open, free environment, we have
> contributed:
>

> *JVending* - an open provisioning platform for distributing applications and

> serving as an application repository. Using JVending, a partner entity can
> adapt it to be part of an Open Repository Service, that will distribute your
> application across each of these repositories around the world. Distribution
> is streamlined - to aggregators and on to carriers by a single submission of
> your application to any of the repositories.
>

> *SAMce* (SlideME Application Manager – Community Edition), a mobile/device

[Muthu Ramadoss]

I bet your bet is logical ;)

--
take care,
Muthu Ramadoss.

http://mobeegal.in
find stuff closer.

[Shane Isbell]

Actually, anyone is free to submit to SlideME Awards the same app they
did for the ADC. Shouldn't be much effort for many people. It will
also be interesting to see if the community chooses the same
applications as the ADC judges. My guess is it will be very different.

Shane

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[Muthu Ramadoss]

Shane,

What are the awards?

[george_c]

Hi Muthu,

What are you after, "money"? ;)

The purpose of the awards is to have 'the people' have their say and
vote on all the apps submitted. When we get the $$ from sponsors,
you will be the 1st to know.

btw: you have 2 new cool ways to easily scrol through & preview apps
and Vote. a) SAM b) SlideVille

More info will be posted on awards section of site soon.

George

[living_sword]

If u can prevent peer-influencing, mutual-voting and self-voting then
u got a nice contest going.

On May 8, 12:07 pm, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, anyone is free to submit to SlideME Awards the same app they
> did for the ADC. Shouldn't be much effort for many people. It will
> also be interesting to see if the community chooses the same
> applications as the ADC judges. My guess is it will be very different.
>
> Shane

[Muthu Ramadoss]

Thanks. It said SlideME awards, so was asking you about the awards.

[Shane Isbell]

Hi Living Sword,

 

We have independent parties lined up to audit the results. You're right self-voting by creating multiple accounts or vote-swapping could be a problem. Those are some of the things we are working on now. Any suggestions are also welcome.

Shane

[Shane Isbell]

Hi Muthu,

 

We don't have all the specific details available for release now. George is still working on sponsors and it's likely the guys at slideme are going to be throwing in some of their own money as well. I can tell you it will be well south of Google's 5 million ;) but we will get all we can to hand out to developers.

 

There are other aspects of the awards as well, like getting to put the awards logo on your content and we are lining up some good publicity for the winners. We will release all the specifics once we finalize them.

 

There are things that go beyond the actual awards like getting feedback on the applications, as its pretty clear this is something that Android developers have been asking for from ADC without much success. The awards can also be good for finding of jobs, putting on the resume, etc.

 

But ultimately the success of this award is defined by involvement of the Android developer community. We are just getting the tools out there for the voting and throwing in a little incentive. Make of it what you will.

 

Shane

[Peli]

Is there any specific deadline?
You could have 5 awards each month, or winner of the month or winner
of the week.

Or organize this more like on YouTube:
Most votes today / last week / last month / ever...
Most comments
Most downloads
...

Muthu is right - there should be some physical award connected to the
honor of the award, to make it feel more real :-) Even if it is just a
T-Shirt, or a mug with the Bug-droid :-)

Also on YouTube people create multiple accounts and vote and comment
on themselves to push their videos. I heard, some in the music
industry buy their own CDs to push record sales... some comedian said
she bought 20 TVs to push her new comedy series. Well - why not? :-)

Peli

On May 8, 9:39 am, "Shane Isbell" <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Living Sword,
>
> We have independent parties lined up to audit the results. You're right
> self-voting by creating multiple accounts or vote-swapping could be a
> problem. Those are some of the things we are working on now. Any suggestions
> are also welcome.
>
> Shane
>

[Incognito]

>Is there any specific deadline?
>You could have 5 awards each month, or winner of the month or winner
>of the week.

Pleaes don't, it will become cheap. Rather you pull all your resources
for one single competition and one big award, relatively speaking.

>Muthu is right - there should be some physical award connected to the
>honor of the award, to make it feel more real :-) Even if it is just a
>T-Shirt, or a mug with the Bug-droid :-)

I would suggest minimum $100 dollars in prize value. Doesn't have to
be cash. Otherwise it will just be boring to most people, I think.

>Also on YouTube people create multiple accounts and vote and comment
>on themselves to push their videos. I heard, some in the music
>industry buy their own CDs to push record sales... some comedian said
>she bought 20 TVs to push her new comedy series. Well - why not? :-)

Yeah, this is definitely much mor fair than this contest.

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[Incognito]

One more thing, don't allow the top 50 ADC winners to participate. We
already know that their apps are the best.

[Konputer]

On May 8, 1:33 pm, Incognito <androidf...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> One more thing, don't allow the top 50 ADC winners to participate. We
> already know that their apps are the best.

Hi Incognito,

I agree to Shane's earlier post that it would be interesting to see
our choice results, as individuals, which will most probably be a lot
different to ADC judges. I'd love to see as many entries possible,
including the winning ones.

Regards,
Kon

[Incognito]

> I agree to Shane's earlier post that it would be interesting to see
> our choice results, as individuals, which will most probably be a lot
> different to ADC judges. I'd love to see as many entries possible,
> including the winning ones.

Yes, it would be interesting but other than that it would be pointless
and probably even dumb. I think it would take the fun out of the
competition.The results would be biased I think. I wonder though if
many winners will actually compete. I wouldn't. If I've already won
the ADC why risk be named a loser in another competition with the same
entries and with the same application and with a prize many, many
times smaller? Just bad publicity in my book.

If all the winners (I doubt it) were to participate I'm not sure I
would believe the results since all the judges will probably be biased
toward or against the winners.

My recommendation is to make this a competition for the people that
did not win the ADC. The ADC winners will be busy working on the
second phase of the ADC challenge while the losers will be able to
show off their lattest improvements of their applications for this new
challenge.

[Shane Isbell]

The guys at SlideME and I discussed about the SlideME Awards contest and due to lack of community interest, we are putting it on hold for the time being. We are changing our focus and will be concentrating on content delivery and services for professional developers so stay tuned for those announcements. Some of you will be receiving personal invites to beta test Slideville, our new AppStore in Songbird. We will also be disabling registration within the next few weeks as we transition the systems.

For those interested, we have GData style feeds setup here: http://jv.slideme.org:8080/atomserver/v1/applications/apk that you can play around with. This is a dev instance, so it will be going up and down. We will also be rolling out more feeds that open more of our system to 3rd parties vendors/developers.

Shane

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Incognito <andro...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I agree to Shane's earlier post that it would be interesting to see
> our choice results, as individuals, which will most probably be a lot
> different to ADC judges. I'd love to see as many entries possible,
> including the winning ones.

Yes, it would be interesting but other than that it would be pointless
and probably even dumb. I think it would take the fun out of the
competition.The results would be biased I think. I wonder though if
many winners will actually compete. I wouldn't.  If I've already won
the ADC why risk be named a loser in another competition with the same
entries and with the same application and with a prize many, many
times smaller? Just bad publicity in my book.

If all the winners (I doubt it) were to participate I'm not sure I
would believe the results since all the judges will probably be biased
toward or against the winners.

This will be voting by the community, no other judges involved.

My recommendation is to make this a competition for the people that
did not win the ADC. The ADC winners will be busy working on the
second phase of the ADC challenge while the losers will be able to
show off their lattest improvements of their applications for this new
challenge.

We discussed this and felt it wouldn't be fair to exclude anyone.