Congratulations to everyone who participated in the $100,000 Truveo Developer Challenge! Here are the nine $10,000 first place winners, and the 20 $500 second place winners as determined by the 5 categories of TopCoder Community Favorite, "Most Innovative" and "Best use of API" as judged by the competition staff, AOL staff favorite and usage.

$10,000 FIRST PLACE WINNERS
Submission		Handle	Usage	Inn.	API	AOL	TC Rank	Weighted Score
MapOfVideo		searchquest	77	95	95	77	96	88
SVid		verma7	88	99	99	96	57	87.8
3Styler for Facebook		wkozi	86	87	87	80	72	82.4
TechVideoBytes		VivekKandagatla	90	80	80	62	94	81.2
GIF creator		oshows	23	93	93	100	93	80.4
VideoWall		ambatvinay	20	94	94	95	98	80.2
ejeboo		sah2ed	61	98	98	82	53	78.4
Sporty		Eeyore	43	92	92	74	88	77.8
VeoSearch		lucky4me	37	100	100	91	60	77.6
$500 SECOND PRIZE WINNERS
Submission		Handle	Usage	Inn.	API	AOL	TC Rank	Weighted Score
VirtualWorldTour		sb99	82	64	64	86	85	76.2
VideoDesk		cyberjag	79	90	90	84	26	73.8
VideoSearchBot		snguyen	47	83	83	63	92	73.6
World of Hollywood / Bollywood		sb99	97	73	73	34	90	73.4
SVIDgle		verma7	43	77	77	99	70	73.2
Sling &Stone Music		justjoined	96	88	88	26	62	72
AutoVideo E3		snguyen	95	72	72	21	100	72
Video Search Results Lingo Translator		sb99	92	86	86	70	23	71.4
BlogVideoContent		quesks	91	71	71	25	97	71
VideoFight		amiune	73	79	79	38	83	70.4
VideoBar		ambatvinay	49	85	85	61	71	70.2
True Video Desktop Manager		sb99	100	47	47	92	64	70
Search Queue Play		oshows	66	89	89	8	95	69.4
VideoBuzz		sravkum	94	68	68	54	59	68.6
Rate Video		verma7	27	69	69	90	86	68.2
VExpresS		vlad_D	88	70	70	23	89	68
TruFex		wkozi	55	97	97	43	48	68
VideoTunes		cyberjag	90	91	91	13	46	66.2
MiniTV		amiune	83	66	66	98	18	66.2
3D Carousel		ambatvinay	71	84	84	6	82	65.4

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Well, a more precise way to say that would be: "Voting Will No Longer Count!"

The widget will remain active and you can cast as many votes as you want, it's also a cool way to browse all the apps. We're still registering the votes and maybe in the future we'll post new results for fun, but for the purposes of this contest, the voting is officially closed!

Now it's time for us to crunch the numbers and we'll be back with an official announcement of winners on Thursday morning!

Voting for the TopCoder Community Favorite category is now open and will remain open until 4pm EDT on Tuesday July 29th. At that point, all the numbers will be crunched and our 9, $10,000 first prize winners, along with the 20, $500 second prize winners will be announced on August 1st.
We have built a battle-style voting widget for the occasion, which you can see below. It is pretty self-explanatory and should give you the opportunity to browse the applications and actually try them before you vote. While you don't have to try every app, we encourage you to try to make an informed decision when voting. There are links in the widget to get more information and/or download & use every submission.


The widget randomly matches up 2 of the 96 submissions at a time, and all you have to do is choose the one you like better by clicking the "VOTE" button under the submission you choose. Two more apps will load, and you repeat the process as many times as you like. Each time you vote for an app, it gets a "win" and its opponent gets a "lose". At the end of the week, the winners will be determined according to which have the highest winning percentage.

MINOR BUG ALERT:: There is a bug that will actually cast a vote if the user clicks on the headline above a particular submission. We are working on this and it should be fixed shortly. More information on each submission can be found by following the "Link to View or Download" link under the submissions.

So that's about it - if you have any questions feel free to ask them in the forums.

If you are a competitor in this contest, congratulations again for the amazing work and good luck in the voting!

If you didn't compete, please take the time to check out some of the amazing apps built by your fellow TopCoder members. Everyone at TopCoder and everyone at Truveo is extremely excited about the results of this competition, and we can't wait to see which apps you choose as your favorites!

Thanks again - now GO VOTE!

The submission phase for the $100,000 Truveo Developer Challenge is now closed!

I'd like to thank everyone who participated, we are truly amazed at the amount of great submissions we've received.

The contest ends with a total of 96 passing submissions, nine of which will be awarded a $10,000 first prize, another 20 will earn a $500 second prize, and everyone who submitted here (even non-passing submissions) will be sent a TopCoder/Truveo T-Shirt.

We'll be spending the next week going over the numbers and judging the winners. The voting for the TopCoder Community favorite will begin tomorrow, using our new Voting Widget designed specifically for this contest. The widget uses a "battle"-type format, which will randomly match two submissions against each other and ask the user to determine which he/she likes better.

A reminder of the scoring breakdown:

• Usage (20%): Usage will be determined based on usage statistics. It is strictly prohibited to manufacture or attempt to manufacture usage in any way. Usage and activity shall be subject to audit by TopCoder and/or Truveo.
• Innovation (20%): Determined by the Competition judges
• Best Use of APIs (20%): Best use of the functionality provided by the Specified Technology
• Truveo favorite (20%): Popularity among Truveo staff
• TopCoder Community Favorite (20%): Popularity among the TopCoder Community

Congratulations to all who participated, you've displayed once again that the level of talent and ingenuity in the TopCoder community is second to none!

Good luck!

dh

Application Title: Moozik
by me551ah

"This app is for all those lazy people who love to discover new music, but are too lazy to work for it. Using this app you can view music videos for all the videos on your hard disk. It creates a browsable list of music files on your hard disk , and allows you to view videos for all of them. Whats more, the can can even automatically search for artists similar to the ones in your collection, and automatically show their top songs and watch their videos. Discovering new music, has never been easier. Initially, you need to click on Build Collection , to build your music collection."

Location : http://profile.iiita.ac.in/addhiwal_b05/moozik.zip

Application Title: VideoExplore
by isameer

"Explore and rank videos. As you keep using it, this application "learns" your tastes and suggests videos you will like. Primitive reinforcement learning techniques are used."

Please view the source code (PHP + JS)

URL: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=58224550506

Application Title: NewsVideo
by soethiha

"This application extend Yahoo! search results of news sites with news videos from Truveo. This application leverages the power of Yahoo! SearchMonkey platform."

"Hence, the news videos from Truveo appear right inside the search results of Yahoo! search; making discovery of news video truly Truveo."

Scenario Illustration:

A user using Yahoo! search stumbles upon a result of a news site (i.e http://cnn.com). Then an infobar will be displayed beneath the result which list recent news video queried off from Truveo.

URL: http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=EWM.s

Add this application to your Yahoo! search. And search for "news" in Yahoo! search.

Application Title: Sporty
by Eeyore

"Sporty is a totally visual interface for exploring the latest sports videos. It features baseball, basketball, American football, plus the 28 Olympic disciplines."

Link: http://sporty.somethingisaid.com/

Application Title: Masterminds Album Finder
by masterminds

"This application is demo application which is show details about album,image of album and link when your can show your album."


URL = http://jaju.somee.com/video.aspx

Applicaion Title: VideoClouds
by ambatvinay



"Now with VideoClouds powered by the Truveo Search XML APi , the Yahoo! Term Extracter and some very good php programming the VideoClouds automatically extracts keywords from a given target HTML page and returns an engaging and eyecatching tagging system to your site.
You can easily insert it in your webpage,blog,social networking site... All you have to do is enter yor keyword of choice,generate the code, copy and paste it into your site."

Inspired from the "VideoAdder" component created by user hsay

Link: http://vinaymenon.50webs.com/videoclouds.html

Application Title: AWSY
by dhbellol

"Awsy is an all-in-one search engine that let you search information from different results formats that includes (web search, news, videos, images, and quotes). Plus, additional features such as get similar topics from a search, spelling suggestion and preview the content without leaving the page."

Awsy is powered by Truveo, Daylife and Yahoo BOSS APIs.


How to use it?

1 . Go to the following URL:
http://pujaplicaciones.javeriana.edu.co/awsy

2. When the page is loaded you'll see text field to enter the keywords that you want to search and a list of checkboxes to select the content that you what to get.

3. After you enter your keywords, just click in the "Search" button, and you'll be redirected to a webpage that has your search results.

Click here for full information and instructions.

Plus, Awsy has these additional features:

Related topics:
Each time that you perform a search, you'll receive in the right side a list of topics related to your keywords, in order to help you to specify your query:

Application Title: VideoToolbar
by dhbellol

"Videotoolbar is an Internet Explorer and Firefox toolbar that let you search videos based in different options such as specific keywords, keywords from the current website and near videos from you current location. Plus, you have the option to make contextual searches selecting a text and doing right click."

How to get it?
If you want to download videotoolbar for Internet Explorer, go to the following URL:
http://www.sinesat.com/videotoolbar.exe
and execute the installer.

If you want to download videotoolbar for Firefox, go to the following URL:
http://www.sinesat.com/install.html

For full information and instructions, see the VideoToolbar Homepage.