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Devs, designers, and techies: jump-start 2012
Looking to take your skills and ideas to the next level in the new year? Check out NYC BigApps 3.0 — New York City’s third annual competition for the best software applications that use city data to make NYC better.
Challenge: Create an app that utilizes NYC Open Data to help NYC residents, visitors, and businesses.
Data and resources:
- More than 700 data sets from NYC Open Data
- APIs from NYC companies: 8coupons, Aviary, bitly, Boxee, CartoDB, DonorsChoose.org, Etsy, foursquare, GetGlue, Hunch, Magma, Meetup, Minus, The New York Times, NewsBlur, Readability, RecordSetter, StreetEasy, TwitrPix, Vimeo, Yipit, and Zemanta
New specialized programs:
- The Grand Prize winners for Best Overall and Popular Choice Apps will get a chance to demo at NY Tech Meetup
- TechStars will select at least two BigApps 3.0 entrants to be TechStars Finalists and participate in the final found of its highly selective startup acceleration program
- Winners will be eligible to join the BigApps Founders Network, which provides mentorship, networking, and business support services to help winners launch or expand their startups
Why enter? Great prizes ($50,000 in cash and more), recognition, and exposure. An all-star judging panel. And this could be you next year.
Register to enter: NYCBigApps.com
NYC BigApps Highlights:
Where Are They Now? A Look at Past NYC BigApps Winners [NY Convergence]
Technical Lead of NYC BigApps Breaks Down the City’s Brand New API [BetaBeat]
Mayor Bloomberg Launches NYC BigApps 3.0 Competition [Press Release]
NYC BigApps Ideas Challenge Looks to Involve Everyone [ProgrammableWeb]
[VIDEO] NYC BigApps 2.0 Behind the Scenes + Award Ceremony [Facebook]Follow @NYCBigApps and @ChallengePost on Twitter, and join us on Facebook. Use hashtag #NYCBigApps when you tweet.
By Samantha
Dec 19
