Developer Contest Winners Announced!

We're proud to announce the winners of our Spring 2008 developer contest.

Grand Prize Winner: SkyMap

The Skymap is a new application that uses GPS-enabled mobile devices to display the current sky at the user's current location. The Skymap is a project Mediated Spaces, Inc., an interactive design studio based in New York, NY.

Runner Up: Mapicurious

Do friends always ask you to recommend places to eat or places to go? Maybe you ask your friends or acquaintenances places for yourself when you travel? Mapicurious allows users to create their own maps with interesting points nearby and share them with others.

Runner Up: DigOrDis

DigOrDis lets consumers rate restaurants or businesses by giving them a thumbs up or down. Users can rate resturants and businesses on the fly, and search for the most digged places around. DigOrDis puts the power back in the customers' hands!

Runner Up: Voicemap.mobi

Voicemap.mobi is a mobile and web based system for leaving voice notes tied to a particular location. Users can record private or public location voice notes on their cell phone then listen to them on the web and/or publish them on twitter.

Prizes are made possible by our partners

And the winners get...

Grand Prize

$5,000 cash
GPS handset
Receive an application review from the AT&T location product team
Be included in the WHERE catalog for distribution

Runner Up Prizes

$1,000 cash
GPS handset
Be included in the WHERE catalog for distribution

Semifinal Prizes

Receive a dedicated mobile design session from uLocate Communications

All prize winners and semi-finalists will be promoted at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference and Where Camp events and on where.com

Old Contests

NAVTEQ LBS Challenge (registration closed December 7th, 2007)

Grand Prize. $50,000 USD in cash
3 Runners-Up Prizes. $10,000 USD in cash
Semifinalist Prizes. Invitation to Las Vegas judging ceremony and two night's hotel

10 out of 15 finalists were built on WHERE.

The NAVTEQ LBS Challenge is the premier event in the location industry and is very closely followed by the industry press as well as the venture community. Many of the previous winners of the Challenge have gone on to found successful companies.

TeleAtlas Maps in Apps Contest (closed September 30th, 2007)
$45,000 in cash prizes

Previous WHERE Contest (closed Oct 15th, 2007)

1st Prize. $5,000
2nd Prize. $3,000
3rd Prize. GPS Phone

All winners received meetings with 3 venture capital firms.
For more info and widget concept ideas, click on the link above to visit the contest page.