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This Christmas the Web Applications team would like to bring some music into your lives. What better way to do that than to award the most killer widget with a Wii and Guitar Hero III!

A Nintendo Wii and Guitar Hero III

The Nintendo Wii is a great device, and has been sold out at stores around the globe for a year! Guitar Hero III has
commanded a lot of respect over the home entertainment market. it's a game you will love, just like us here at Opera

And two guitars!

The Web Applications team likes to have competitions. Infact we like to compete (and win ) so much so, that we're giving you two guitars so you can play with a friend! All you have to do to get this grand prize is: Make a killer Opera Widget.

In the past, we've had many people make widgets and our widgets repository now hosts over a thousand of them. Check them out for some inspiration! Think of widgets that you would like to use on your Mobile phone or ones that you would like to have on your TV. Imagine a world of desktop applications, made using Open Web Standards. What would you like to do today, online or offline? it's up to you!

T-Shirts every week!

The Giving season has begun and we are giving away two t-shirts every week to the best widgets for the previous week. When we award our users, we like to go all out.

Bonus points will be awarded for widgets that have a local aspect, e.g. widgets that have more value for someone living in a particular city. A good example are the existing widgets offering public transportation information for Oslo.

Until the 20th of January, we will take each new or updated widget and:
  • Measure their coolness
  • Observe their usefulness
  • Check their Code quality
  • Count download numbers
  • and finally, look out for innovative developers
All widgets uploaded between the 20th of December 2007 and 20th of January 2008 will be judged, and the winner will be announced before the 25th of January!

Best of luck! and Godspeed

Widget Developers: Competition Time!

Comments

Until the 20th of January, we will take each new or updated widget and:

Is that any widget that already exists and has been updated, or just any widget submitted now which may be updated before Jan 20th?

(And no, I'm not planning on updating and re-submitting my existing widgets!)

By johnnysaucepn, # 20. December 2007, 14:46:03

We'll consider new widgets and existing widgets receiving a substantial update during the competition period.

By geirp, # 20. December 2007, 15:09:20

Originally posted by johnnysaucepn:

And no, I'm not planning on updating and re-submitting my existing widgets!


Why not? I want a xmas version of touchTheSky!!! It is the only widget I use on a regular basis

By Guille, # 20. December 2007, 19:34:01

I'll just change it so that it always says 'Snow'! Is that Christmassy enough?

By johnnysaucepn, # 20. December 2007, 19:46:11

to me? sure!, the only problem is the people over here may be a little bit confused by the fact that there are about 40ºC on this afternoon! Well, we are all about to get delusional because of the heat, so it will not matter.

By Guille, # 20. December 2007, 20:14:48

Bonus points will be awarded for widgets that have a local aspect, e.g. widgets that have more value for someone living in a particular city.

Oh man :(, I was planning to do a Widget of my country (Colombia) for the competition, but it´s imposible because:

Measure their coolness
Observe their usefulness
Check their Code quality
Count download numbers
and finally, look out for innovative developers

Well, let's think in something else :).

By wfoxCO, # 24. December 2007, 16:25:24

No, you'll get EXTRA points for doing a Columbian widget, regardless of number of downloads. Downloads will get taken into account, but they'll know if it's a large number of downloads for a single country.

By johnnysaucepn, # 25. December 2007, 15:25:24

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