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Regular updates about who’s commissining cross platform content and what they’re offering in return. First – a lsit of competitions: 

 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 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/   Deadline Today£1st Jan 2008 marks 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