Opera Widgets blog

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)!