Widget Idol
By thomas.ford. Tuesday, 9. May 2006, 15:51:33
It's a fact: we want widgets. 500 of them to be precise. So tell your friends, lovers and enemies to get ready, cause we want to find the best widget and will go to great lengths to get it.
During the next three months, we're giving away a total of 13 prizes to the developers who create the most impressive widgets. Widgets that excite the imagination with fresh ideas. Widgets that show off cool features. Or widgets that are so much fun, you forget to shower.
Our friends at ThinkGeek
are offering a grab bag of awesome toys and gadgets to the best widget each week. Just look at their site and tell me there aren't 10 things that would instantly make your life cooler. But we don't stop there, folks. We're giving away Nokia 770s - the portable Internet tablet - to the best widget for each month. And then...the Grand Prize awarded to the Widget Idol as voted on by our judges.
At The Gathering, we gave away the ultimate high performance computer built by the experts at Digital Impuls. That baby was a monster. For this competition we're giving away...
Wait! That surprise needs its own post.
So run through our tutorials, read the documentation and get coding. The first week's prize will be awarded on the 16th.
The Small Print
Criteria
We kept it the same as the Gathering. Our panel of expert judges will determine the winner based on the following:
Your widget should:
be very easy to use
have a well defined purpose
comply with standards
look good!
Your widget should not:
have bugs
waste resources
have ugly code
Each of these will be ranked from 0 to 100 (and 0 to -100 for the 'should not' list), and then added. The highest scoring widget each week will win that week's prize by ThinkGeek. The top scoring widget of the month will win the Nokia 770. The overall highest scoring widget will win the mysterious Grand Prize...
To enter
Simply upload a widget from http://my.opera.com/community/customize/widgets/submit/
if it gets posted on our 'New Widgets' Page withing a few days after submission it means that it has been judged, ranked, scored and entered in the competition
Deadline
Submission deadline for each week is Monday morning 10AM CET. The Widget of the Month will be the best widget submitted in the past four weeks.
More chances to win
You can update your widget and still win. If your widget didn't win the prize for its week, update your widget and send a mail to widgetcomp[at]opera.com telling us what you changed. Your widget will then be re-entered into the competition. Everyone has a chance to win. Everyone except Opera employees.
Disclaimer: Opera disclaims all liabilities and responsibilities regarding the widgets submitted as part of this competition. The participant agrees to bear all liabilities and responsibilites with regard to the widgets he/she submits as part of this competition. The authors retain copyright of submitted widgets, but widgets must either have a BSD-compatible license or be placed in the public domain. All judges' decisions remain final.
During the next three months, we're giving away a total of 13 prizes to the developers who create the most impressive widgets. Widgets that excite the imagination with fresh ideas. Widgets that show off cool features. Or widgets that are so much fun, you forget to shower.
Our friends at ThinkGeek
are offering a grab bag of awesome toys and gadgets to the best widget each week. Just look at their site and tell me there aren't 10 things that would instantly make your life cooler. But we don't stop there, folks. We're giving away Nokia 770s - the portable Internet tablet - to the best widget for each month. And then...the Grand Prize awarded to the Widget Idol as voted on by our judges.At The Gathering, we gave away the ultimate high performance computer built by the experts at Digital Impuls. That baby was a monster. For this competition we're giving away...
Wait! That surprise needs its own post.
So run through our tutorials, read the documentation and get coding. The first week's prize will be awarded on the 16th.
The Small Print
Criteria
We kept it the same as the Gathering. Our panel of expert judges will determine the winner based on the following:
Your widget should:
be very easy to use
have a well defined purpose
comply with standards
look good!
Your widget should not:
have bugs
waste resources
have ugly code
Each of these will be ranked from 0 to 100 (and 0 to -100 for the 'should not' list), and then added. The highest scoring widget each week will win that week's prize by ThinkGeek. The top scoring widget of the month will win the Nokia 770. The overall highest scoring widget will win the mysterious Grand Prize...
To enter
Simply upload a widget from http://my.opera.com/community/customize/widgets/submit/
if it gets posted on our 'New Widgets' Page withing a few days after submission it means that it has been judged, ranked, scored and entered in the competition
Deadline
Submission deadline for each week is Monday morning 10AM CET. The Widget of the Month will be the best widget submitted in the past four weeks.
More chances to win
You can update your widget and still win. If your widget didn't win the prize for its week, update your widget and send a mail to widgetcomp[at]opera.com telling us what you changed. Your widget will then be re-entered into the competition. Everyone has a chance to win. Everyone except Opera employees.
Disclaimer: Opera disclaims all liabilities and responsibilities regarding the widgets submitted as part of this competition. The participant agrees to bear all liabilities and responsibilites with regard to the widgets he/she submits as part of this competition. The authors retain copyright of submitted widgets, but widgets must either have a BSD-compatible license or be placed in the public domain. All judges' decisions remain final.
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WIDGETIZE
Benjamin Joffe # 9. May 2006, 16:11
Guille # 9. May 2006, 16:46
I can't wait to see the winners
coxy # 9. May 2006, 17:00
In fact, I might just make it a JPG and pretend it does stuff... it'll be far easier.
Eddie_Lopez # 9. May 2006, 17:24
coxy # 9. May 2006, 18:00
realGWolf # 9. May 2006, 19:30
FataL # 9. May 2006, 20:34
rocanale # 10. May 2006, 02:38
I want to make widgets, but.. i have Windows Me
Guille # 10. May 2006, 03:47
gautam_chandna # 10. May 2006, 08:46
Yes. Potentially, one person can win:
- the 10 weekly prizes,
- the 2 monthly prizes and
- the final prize
by making 13 amazing widgets!
If the widget deserves it, we dont see why the creator shouldnt be rewarded!
kyleabaker # 10. May 2006, 12:03
Maybe I'll have to think up another one and join in on this competition.
Benjamin Joffe # 10. May 2006, 13:14
I would have thought that only 10 widgets would be necessary to win the 13 prizes. Are you saying that if one wins a weekly prize that widget is taken out of the running for the final prize?
gautam_chandna # 10. May 2006, 15:59
You can 'edit and re-enter' 3 of them to win the Monthly and Final prizes.
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The catch is, that you cannot participate in more than one weekly prize with one widget, so you need atleast 10. And you cannot re-enter a Monthly Prize winning widget, so you need to edit atleast 3.
But 13 would certainly make me smile a little more:)
drdbahalder # 12. May 2006, 10:19
drdbahalder # 12. May 2006, 10:22
Jadd # 12. May 2006, 14:20
variatio # 4. February 2007, 23:23
bugscout # 6. February 2008, 23:59
i think some of them don´t run with my 9.5