BlueVia donates £10,000 of media spend to Best-in-Show
This year, the prize for Best in Show (Judges Selection) at the Over the Air hacking competition is sure to make your eyes pop!
Long-time supporter and OTA11 Gold Sponsor BlueVia will be giving away £10,000 worth of media spend on O2 Media's network to the winner of the Best in Show category. This can be used by the winning team to commercialise their entry or any of their existing commercial products - acros a blend of SMS / MMS / Video / Online as appropriate, across O2 more, O2 active and You Are Here product sets. See here for more info: http://www.o2media.co.
You may have also caught their announcement about the integration of BlueVia with Twitter that allows O2 customers in the UK to interact with Twitter via MMS Messaging. "At a stroke, this adds new multimedia functionality to Twitter for those who the micro-blogging service via their phones using SMS."
Any interesting ideas spring to mind? Then start ruminating on it, as OTA11 is now only just around the corner....
Get ready to hack at OTA11!
A key feature of every Over the Air is the hacking competition, which opens after the Keynotes on Friday morning and closes shortly before the Demo's on Saturday after lunch. There are always a number of general categories, sponsored categories, and thematic or problem-solving challenges.
As we finalise the schedule for OTA11, we are also starting to finalise this year's competition categories, and can have lots of amazing prizes to tell you about as well!
The details of the OTA11 Hackday categories and prizes have now been posted. Time to go make cool stuff!!
The competition entry form is live online, and you have until lunchtime to get your entry in.
The OTA 2010 Hack-a-thon Results
- Best in Show (judges selection) - an iPad from Alcatel-Lucent, and $1,000 worth of services from Mob4Hire -The Ben Collins Appreciation Society for First Gear
- Audience Favourite (audience vote) - $1,000 worth of services from DeviceAnywhere - Light Blue for Lobster
- The Nokia Qt Challenge - a Nokia N8 - GeekYouUp for Hot UK Deals for Maemo
- The UnLtd Better Net Challenge - £2,500 - Intohand for Freecycle Mobile
- The Telefonica #Blue Challenge - a Playstation 3 - Jose Palazon for OTA #Blue Chess
- The PayPal X Challenge - an HTC Android Smartphone - The Bill Collins Appreciation Society for First Gear
- The Ericsson Labs Challenge - a Sony Ericsson Android X10 Mini Pro - Intohand for Freecycle Mobile
- The Orange Mobilise Challenge - an iPhone 4 - Alistair MacDonald for Hole Mapper
- Best User Experience - $500 of In-Network Ad Spend from InMobi - Melinda & Christiano for GeoHunt
- Best use of Open APIs and Open Data - a Motorola DEXT - Dale Lane for UK Traffic
- Best Android App - a Motorola Milestone - Paul Johnston for FindMyMates
- Best use of Mobile Web - a Sony Ericsson Android X10 Mini Pro - Me Myself & I for Light Blue
- Best Game - an Xbox from Microsoft - Feel the FP-ness for Dance Dance Evolution
- Best Use of other features (RFID, Camera Bluetooth, Light Sensors) - Monotype Imaging Poster - Adam Cohen-Rose for The Eyes Have It
- Best iPhone App - Monotype Imaging Poster - >2.5k for Vibe
- Best Visual Design - Monotype Imaging Poster - Feel the FP-ness for Dance Dance Evolution
- Best use of Widgets - Monotype Imaging Poster - Geek You Up for The Cleaner
- Best Hardware Hack- Monotype Imaging Poster - Adam Cohen-Rose for The Eyes Have It
- The Most Fun - Monotype Imaging Poster - Thom FP for Doodle Message
- The Most Useful - Monotype Imaging Poster - Sam Machin for BlueBabelTextFish
- The Most Cheeky - Monotype Imaging Poster - Light Blue for Lobster
Next Event: June 1st & 2nd, 2012
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