Calling all product devs, designers, and mashup artists… we invite you — and your talented friends — to show us your ideal Flavorpill Local page!
We’ve got some good ideas, but we want to know what our readers want, which is why we’re asking you to help us envision the perfect hyperlocal page. Starting with our event feed, how would you show your neighborhood on Flavorpill?
Go ahead, mash up your favorite APIs, including (but not limited to) Google Maps, Google Calendar, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Friends Connect, Yelp, Craigslist, and Foursquare, along with the best local blogs. All neighborhoods are welcome, but for a dynamic page based on our event feed, focus on one of the US cities where we’ve already got content — NYC, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, and Miami. We’re looking for great vision, but submissions that actually work — dynamic pages, tapping live feeds — have a better chance of winning.
HOW TO SUBMIT
You have two weeks to submit a URL and a screenshot. The contest is currently open and ends at noon Monday, December 14th. After all submissions are in, Flavorpill will pick its shortlist of favorites. The public voting starts on December 15 and runs until December 18. The top three scoring entries will go to the last round; from these top three chosen, Flavorpill’s esteemed judges will pick the final winner, announcing it on December 21.
Joining Flavorpill’s co-founders Mark Mangan and Sascha Lewis to decide on the winner of Flavorpill Local are other great innovators in the local and digital space:
Scott Heiferman – CEO, MeetUp
Ian Schafer – CEO, Deep Focus
Phil Thomas Di Giulio – Organizer, Future of Local Media
Doug Jaeger – Director of Innovation, TAXI New York
Peter Rojas – Co-founder, gdgt
Piers Fawkes – Founder, PSFK
Fred Wilson – VC, Union Square Ventures
Peter Duffin – Vice President of Brand Management, Lincoln Center
Mark Josephson – CEO, Outside.in
The person voted with the best Flavorpill Neighborhoods page will win a $1,500 cash prize, a feature interview on Flavorwire, and a chance at becoming the head of this new local team. Lincoln Center will announce a special prize package for their favorite submission which focuses on the Upper West Side, NYC neighborhood. Outside.in is offering an additional $1000 prize if the winning mashup includes Outside.in.
Get updates on the contest and submit your Flavorpill Local page here.
Got any questions? Hit us up at local@flavorpill.com.
Comments (6)
$1500 and a chance at becoming the head of this new local team. No thanks. If someone hired me to do this type of work, it would cost them at least ten times that.
Contrary to popular belief, competent web developers are not so hard up for work that they need to whore themselves out for a chance at pennies on the dollar and carrot on a stick publicity.
Agree, I work heavily in the biz and anyone with any real experience is gonna cost more like $15,000 per month
Ouch… Well, maybe this’ll be some talented youngster’s big break.
Wow, with that kind of attitude this must be why visa holders like me get to take all of your tech jobs! I think you’re supposed to relish the challenge and enjoy working on it for the love of the technology and the experience you would gain. I’d love to have a crack at it but I don’t suppose I’ll have time for it at this point in my life, young talent rejoice!
Actually – designers and developers work for money, not for the ‘love of technology’. Design contests are considered spec work and, in general are no good for the industry. http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/position-spec-work
As a magazine that obviously values great design and the plight of artists everywhere, the right thing to do is to find a suitable designer through linkedin or carbonmade, then work with them to come up with the best design possible and pay them for their work and expertise.
Guys I just saw this in big apps, http://www.localnext.com. Looks like they have some thing very similar to what you guys are trying to achieve using this talent competition.It looks pretty cool too
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