Opera Widgets blog

It's voting time! Our contest is coming to an end, and it's time for the community to decide who created the best widget. Voting started Thursday, January 18th, ends on Friday, January 26th. We use a single voting system. You can vote one time on one of the six finalists that you most approve of.

The voting site also contains a list of the finalists and their widgets

Click here to submit your vote. Good luck!

It's time for another competition to keep all you widget developers occupied over the holidays. And since the best prize this holiday season is a Nintendo Wii, wii're giving you a chance to win one.

But that's only the grand prize. We're also giving away a Nintendo DS Lite and a total of eight Opera goodie bags, stuffed with a bunch of Opera t-shirts, pins, pens, stickers, etc.

So how does this competition work? It's simple. We're looking for the best widgets uploaded during the next month. Every three days, Opera will select the best widget from the widgets submitted during the days prior to the selection.

Make Your Voice Heard

We're adding another dimension this time, though. Since widgets are made by the community, the community should also decide the winners of the big prizes. To determine the winner of our grand prize and our second prize, the community will vote on their favorite from a list of five finalists chosen by Opera for their code quality, usability, aesthetic quality, innovation and download numbers.

Besides voting, you can also make your voice heard by being a community reviewer.

Community Reviewers

Once Opera select the 5 finalists, the community is invited to review the widgets on their blogs. A reviewer can then submit a link to their reviews of the five widgets. Once we accept the reviews, we will link to them on the Opera Widgets blog. To be a community reviewer, you must review all five widgets. We reserve the right to accept or reject any review.

Worthy Widgets

Goodie Bag winners will be selected by Opera after our Web applications team evaluates code quality, usability, aesthetic quality, innovation. Opera will then select five finalists from ALL widgets submitted during the competition period. DS Lite and Wii winners will be selected from those five finalists by a community vote. The polling feature is designed to protect against bots or other poll manipulations.

Timeline of Prizes

• December 18th: Goodie bag day!
  
• December 21st: Goodie bag day!
  
• December 25th: Goodie bag day!
  
• December 28th: Goodie bag day!
  
• January 1st: Goodie bag day!
  
• January 4th: Goodie bag day!
  
• January 8th: Goodie bag day!
  
• January 11th: Goodie bag day!
  

To be included in the judging for each goodie bag, you must submit before midnight your time the evening BEFORE.

Submission for this competition stops at midnight (also your time) on Thursday, 11th of January. We will announce the finalists in the running to win a Wii on January 16th in order to allow our community reviewers time to adequately prepare their reviews.

January 22nd: Polls open for the whole community

January 26th: Polls close at midnight your time on January 22nd

January 29th: The winners of the Nintendo Wii and DS Lite are revealed

Good luck to everyone who enters, reviews or votes in this competition!