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Programming Contest Guide
Ongoing or recent programming contests so you can manage your development time wisely.
| Contest | Prizes | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| WhitePages.com API Contest | 50 inch HD plasma TV or one Apple MacBook Pro | 2008-05-15 2 days left |
| SemanticHacker Challenge | $100,000 first prize, up to $1 million | 2008-06-18 36 days left |
| NJ Star Ledger Facebook App Contest | $5,000 for best NJ themed application | 2008-08-29 108 days left |
| Calias Bounty Program | $5,000 for best WordPress plugin | Deadline TBD |
| Zynga $150,000 Game Developer Giveaway | 30,000 free installs to top 10 submissions | Deadline TBD |
| Salesforce.com's Force.com Million Dollar Challenge | $1,000,000+ investment offer from Emergence Capital | Begins March-2008, with details TBD |
If you know one that's not here you can add it.
Previous contests
Gives you some idea of what won in the past.
| Contest | Prizes | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| WHERE Developer Contest, Spring 2008 | $5,000 first prize, $1,000 second place mobile GPS handset at each prize level. | 2008-05-05 |
| Kintera Connect Developer's Challenge | $15,000 first prize, $5,000 for each of 2 second prizes | 2008-04-10 |
| StrikeIron March Mashup | 42 inch HD Flat Scree TV first prize, Apple iTouch for 3 runners up | 2008-03-31 |
| NetSquared N2Y3 Mashup Challenge | $100,000 divided across 20 teams | 2008-03-14 |
| Autodesk Freewheel Developer Contest | "Dream 3D System" with Dell XPS 720 and 2 27" monitors | 2008-02-15 |
| Film 4 Mashup and Widget Contest | £2000 from UK's Channel4 for most creative mashup of their Film4 RSS feeds | 2008-01-10 |
| MTV Adobe AIR Challenge | 2 night trip to NYC and MTV meetings grand prize. 2 other NYC trips for runners-up | 2007-12-31 |
| AT&T Facebook Developer's Challenge | $5,000 first prize | 2007-12-14 |
| MP3tunes Music API Challenge | $1,000 first prize | 2007-11-05 |
| Cogenz Developer Contest | $5,000 first prize, $750 for five runner-up winners | 2007-10-31 |
| SharedBook Open API Challenge | Choice of OpenMoko phone, iPhone or $500 cash. Also, 20% share of books sold via app | 2007-10-31 |
| Amazon Startup Challenge | $50,000 cash and $50,000 web services credit | 2007-10-28 |
| WHERE Developer Contest | $5,000 first prize, $3,000 second place, mobile GPS handset third place. All prizes include meetings with 3 leading VC firms. Note, entries here also valid for TeleAtlas conte-double your chances. | 2007-10-15 |
| Tibco Ultimate Ajax Challenge | 50 Inch Plasma HDTV, 30GB Video iPod | 2007-09-30 |
| TeleAtlas Maps in Apps 2007 | $25,000 cash, $50,000 in mapping data; 2 runners-up $10,000 cash and $20,000 map data | 2007-09-30 |
| Reinventing Voice Mashup Contest | Showcased at Sylantro Global Summit | 2007-09-20 |
| MashupCamp Dublin - Business Mashup Challenge | Over $4000 in cash and prizes including best mashup using IBM tools like QEDWiki and best widgets using StrikeIron, Kapow and Dapper. | 2007-09-12 |
| Adobe AIR Developer Derby | Trip of a lifetime worth up to $100,000, 5 second place prizes Mac Pros worth $8900 each | 2007-09-05 |
| Skype Developer Mashup Competition | Trip to Prague | 2007-08-31 |
| Apatar Data Mashup Contest | 80GB video iPod and 2GB iPod nano | 2007-08-31 |
| Paypal Developer Challenge for a Facebook App | $10,000 first place prize, 2 $5,000 second place prizes, 4 $2,000 third place prizes | 2007-08-24 |
| Voxbone API Development Contest | $10,000 first place prize | 2007-07-31 |
| Clicky API Widget Contest | $500 in cash and prizes | 2007-07-31 |
| Microsoft and BT Connected Services Sandbox Competition | Prizes from $2,500 to $25,000 | 2007-06-18 Winners announced June 18-2007 |
| Digg API Visualization Contest | Prizes include Falcon Northwest gaming PC, all EA PC games, Adobe CS3 Master Collection | 2007-05-16 |
| Sunlight Foundation Mashup Congress Contest | $2,000 first prize | 2007-04-15 |
| Proto Daily iPod Mashup Contest | 1 iPod Nano every day to the best mashup built using their tool. 25 iPods total. | 2007-04-15 Starting Jan 30, while prizes last |
| O'Reilly Media and StrikeIron's ETel Telephony Mashup Contest | $1,500 first prize, $1,000 second prize, $500 third prize | 2007-02-20 |
| GeoIQ Mashup Contest | Sony Playstation 3 first prize, Roboraptor second prize, Dwight Schrute Bobblehead third prize | 2007-01-15 |
| GoodStorm API Developer Challenge | $1,000 first prize, $500 in downloads second prize, iPod Nano third prize | 2006-12-15 |
| ClearForest Semantic Web Services Mashup Contest | $2,000 first prize, $1,000 second prize | 2006-12-11 |
| AOL Web AIM Mashup Competition | $5,000 first prize, $1,500 second prize, $500 third prize | 2006-12-06 |
| Global IP Sound VIP Application Contest (for VoIP) | GIPs-enabled Ojo phones from WorldGate | 2006-11-30 |
| AIM Phoneline Developer's Challenge (for VoIP) | $3,500 first prize, $1,000 second prize, $500 third prize | 2006-11-30 |
| Rhapsody Web Services Contest | Trip for 2 to anywhere in the world, Sonos Digital Music System, 6 Sansa e260 MP3 players | 2006-10-16 |
| BT Exact Mashup Competition 2006 | £2,500 first prize, second prize of £1,500 | 2006-10-06 |
| MSN Messenger Invasion of the Robots | $40,000 in prizes including $10,000 Alienware computer and $5,000 Bose stereo | 2006-09-15 |
| OCLC Research Software Conte-Dublin Ohio Computer Library | $2,500 | 2006-09-15 |
| Talis: Mashing Up The Library Competition | £1,000 first prize, second prize of £500 | 2006-08-18 |
| Google Desktop Gadget Contest | $5,000, $2,000 and $1,000 prizes for 1-2nd and 3rd place | 2006-08-14 |
| MapQuest OpenAPI Developers Challenge | $1,000 first prize with trip to O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose (see winners here) | 2006-05-01 |
| Share Skype Developer Competition with three categories: AP2AP Messaging, eBay Integration, Voice Services | 2,000 euros first prize each category, 500 euros second prize | 2006-04-15 |
| eBay Best Original Application, Individual | $5,000 plus O'Reilly Conference trip | 2006-01-31 |
| eBay Best Open Source Collaboration | Set of matching Xbox 360 games and O'Reilly Conference trip | 2006-01-31 |
| Extend Firefox Contest. See the finalists. |
Alienware Aurora 7500 Firefox Edition PC | 2006-01-06 |
| Amazon.com’s AWS Developer Contest. See the winners here. | $5,000 | 2005-12-31 |
| MSN Messenger World’s Best App Contest. See the winning entries. |
Alienware Area 51m 7700 Mobile Desktop | 2005-12-31 |
| NewsGator API Developer Competition | Dell Latitude D610 or Apple Powerbook G4 laptop | 2005-11-11 |
| MSN Virtual Earth Competition. See winning entries. |
$1000 | 2005-10-14 |
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