It’s the 31st Jan which means it’s the closing date for entries for Sky News £10k prize devloper competition. Entries to: newsonline@bskyb.com (put developer competition in the subject header). Results day is 21st February.See http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1291123,00.html
Hackday 2008The BBC’s Mr FM&T Ashley Highfied has just given the all clear for Matthew Cashmore to run another of his highly successful ‘Hack Days’ as part of the BBC’s Backstage project. It’ll be sometime in June 2008 and you’ll see details here or at http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/
C4 has relaunched its platform 4 talent search offering £1500 to what they’re calling ‘passionate hobbyist’ developers programkng code late into the night in their bedrooms.They’re looking for a Film4 Mash-Up or Widget using Channel 4 content from exisiting RSS feeds. £1500’s better than a slap in the face with a wet fish so have a look at http://www.channel4.com/interact/platform4/contest.html
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· Meld was born out of a need to find creative solutions to the issues facing contemporary media companies and those who create content for them whether they’re journalists, producers, animators, film-makers designers or technologists.
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