If you are a web developer and have a favorite platform, or you even have your own? Why don’t you go ahead and make a nice addon to display news?! And even better, win cash prizes! You can take the Netvibes widgets as a nice example, but don’t forget Newstin has much more to offer!
Here are few platforms we were thinking about, but you can develop for any open platform that is used on at least 100 websites!
Wordpress addon
Joomla addon
Mambo addon
Xoops addon
Drupal addon
MODx addon
Textpattern addon
Zen Cart addon
osCommerce addon
phpBB addon
SMF addon
iGoogle widget
Facebook addin
In the administration part you can offer possibility to choose a category and a language, we have 10 languages and 700.000 categories to choose from, every single one of them with its own RSS feed!
You can even allow users to choose a category name based on text input, because our naming policies are very simple and you can simply check the validity of input by HTTP response!
The only thing we are asking for is taht the link to the category must be present within the widget/addon and remain intact without redirects. The article links can be redirects if you think it’s neccessary.
To be eligible for the Newstin widget contest, you must follow simple instructions
- you must publish the widget on your blog, website, make it publicly available by other means (for example via the platform support site) or eventually mail it to jan.jelinek [at] newstin [dot] com. If you are devloping for an open platform, publish the source code as well.
- the category link within the RSS feed you are going to use must remain intact- you post a link where the widget can be found as a comment on this blog entry
The deadline is 15th July 2008, the winners will be announced as of October 1st. The best widget gets $300, second $200 and third selected solution $100 in cash prizes paid via Check or Paypal. In the end, we will publish a list of all widgets that participated in the contest with permanent links to their developers websites. Even if you don’t get selected for a cash prize, you get a link on our blog ranked PR 5!
Good luck in the contest!