1. Media Mash winners announced

    Open APIs are increasingly important to digital media innovation, allowing the developer community to unlock new features and functionality. The winning apps demonstrate fresh approaches to content aggregation, social commerce, and mobility.

    -Roger Neal, Executive Director of NYC Media Lab

    NYC Media Lab just announced the winners of Media Mash 2012, a competition for software developers to create mashups from more than 50 popular media and tech APIs. Over a four-month period, developers competed for a prize pool of $10,000 and came up with 18 creative apps.

    Winners of the Best Overall Mashup and Student prizes were determined by a nine-person judging panel of noteworthy leaders in the media and technology industries. The Popular Choice Award winner was crowned by the public, who voted over a month-long period. 

    Best Overall Mashups

    • First Prize ($5,000) — InOur.name. This straightforward yet creative app asks two questions: “What issue is important to you?” and “What is your zip code?” The search results, pulled from the NewsCred API, show the legislative actions taken by a user’s elected representatives.
    • Second Prize ($2,000) — CityMaps. This application, which utilizes the FourSquare, OpenTable, and Fandango APIs, transforms a simple city map into a hub for social commerce. The app aggregates consumer tweets and merchant deals, and connects them to local commerce services, like OpenTable and Fandango. 

    Popular Choice Award ($2,000)

    • New York Mapper — Voted best app by the public, New York Mapper allows Google Map explorers to discover and share places with their friends using a handy Facebook overlay. 

    Student Award ($1,000)

    • InOur.name — Hats off to the creator, Jason Wright, a HackNY Fellow and graduate engineering student at Cornell. 

    Thanks to everyone who participated and made the challenge a great success! View the winners and all 18 awesome mashups in the Application Gallery. 

    We invite you to join us on Facebook, follow @ChallengePost on Twitter, and use the hashtag #MediaMash when you tweet. 

    By Megan 

    Jul 31 Comments

  2. 1 week left to enter your mashup for $10,000 in prizes

    Software developers: there is just one week left to submit an app for NYC Media Lab’s Media Mash competition!

    NYC Media Lab is inviting you to share new and existing mashups that use data, APIs, and RSS feeds from media and technology companies like Facebook, Foursquare, Google, Instapaper, Newscred, NPR, Tumblr, and dozens more.

    In addition to promotion and exposure, those who enter will qualify to win some fantastic cash prizes: 

    • Best Overall Mashup, Grand Prize - $5,000
    • Best Overall Mashup, Second Prize - $2,000 
    • Student Award - $2,000
    • Popular Choice Award - $1,000
    • Large Organization Recognition Award - Recognition prize for organizations with 50+ employees

    Visit MediaMash.ChallengePost.com to get started today!

    Follow @NYCMediaLab and @ChallengePost on Twitter, and join us on Facebook.

    By Megan

    Jun 13 Comments