By EspenAO. Monday, 10. March 2008, 15:40:07
widget, community, Winners, contest
The Web applications team has finally determined a winner from the "Show Us Your Skills!" contest we hosted back in December, last year. We know many of you have waited a long, long time for the results, so without further ado we're proud to present the winners:
| Widget: |
Judges' Notes: |
| Project Velt
| This is a full-featured web-based slideshow generator. Every aspect of this widget has been made to such perfection that we simply could not overlook it. From default templates to saving your own files, formatting text to exporting it as a presentation - this Widget has everything. It even has an in-built clock! As a result of this, we're proud to crown gyrobo as the winner of our contest and will therefore receive a Nintendo Wii with Guitar Hero III and 2 guitars.  |
| RoadTrip |
This widget will search for the best route to visit a list of locations. This widget has got style. It manages to put together the Google Maps API with an awesome user interface - making it one of the best widgets we received for this competition. |
| 3D Mesh Demo |
Wii Opera SDK demo 3D mesh Widget. |
| PlanetWerks |
An interactive, educational and accurate Solar System simulation. |
| TriMet Transit Tracker |
This tracks public transit in Portland, Oregon, United States. |
| Social graph |
Social graph for all My Opera blogs. |
So, there you have it folks. Big congrats to all the winners! Since we don't want anyone to leave empty handed we will award the other five great entries with Opera goodie-bags. 
By EspenAO. Thursday, 22. November 2007, 17:14:07
widgets, contest
It's been a long time since our last competition (and we've had too many excellent widgets go by without any rewards), so we're giving away goodie bags weekly to the two best widgets submitted and approved. There's no specific time-frame for this contest. It will go on for as long as there is interest.
Goodie-bags!?
That's right! We got brand new Opera t-shirts and a pile of good stuff we think you'll enjoy! 
Let's get on with the contest!
The rules are simple:
- Develop any Widget you'd like (note: scroll down for secret information on how to acquire bonus points).
- The Widget must be approved and publicly available on widgets.opera.com.
- Widgets must be submitted before midnight on Sunday to be eligible for that week.
How do you pick a winner?
We'll use the following judgement criteria:
The Widgets will be judged by Opera employees of the Web Applications team, looking at the following (listed in no particular order) items:
- Code quality
- Innovation
- Usability
- Value for the user
- Graphic design
Bonus points will be awarded for widgets that have a local aspect, e.g. widgets that have more value for someone living in a particular city. A good example are the existing widgets offering public transportation information for Oslo.
We will announce the names of this week's goodie-bag winners next Tuesday (November 27th)!
By Lawmune. Tuesday, 12. June 2007, 23:03:19
widgets, opera, feedback, contest
Our first themed Widget contest is now over. We want to do more contests in the near future, and I'm looking for feedback. What should the theme of our next Widget contest be?
Widgets for
a) sports lovers?
b) people who like to cook?
c) pet owners?
d) photographers?
e) people into personal fitness ?
f)
(your suggestion here)Please leave your comments on
Choose Opera, and from the ones that sound good, I'll create a poll we can vote on.
By Lawmune. Tuesday, 12. June 2007, 04:49:58
travel, widgets, opera, contest
After serious consideration, we've decided on the winner of our Travel Widget Contest. Without further ado, I'd like to congratulate
aditya.internet (Aditya Raj) for creating the winning Widget:
Travel Mate!
The competition was very tight, and I especially need to mention the fabulous
watchTheRoad Widget by johnnysaucepn (our early-bird winner) as well as
FlightTracker by ja002h
Overall, we received a great crop of useful, fun, and technically impressive Widgets. Travel Mate won for numerous reasons, some of which include great ratings, very positive user comments, being really easy to use, easy on the eye, and genuinely useful in multiple ways. It was also Aditya's first submitted Widget. We certainly look forward to Travel Mate updates and new Widgets from this promising developer. As the grand prize winner, he will receive a Windows Mobile phone that runs Opera. ja002h, our second place winner, will receive a Nintendo DS Lite with the Opera browser.
Here are the final results.
Grand prize winner:Travel MatePrize: Windows Mobile phone that runs Opera
Early bird winner:watchTheRoadPrize: Nintendo DS Lite with Opera browser
2nd Place:FlightTrackerPrize: Nintendo DS Lite with Opera browser
Runner-ups:TripAdvisorTravelFree HotSpot SearchYahoo! tripsSheep CountPrizes: Opera goodie bags
(49%)
