Google Maps mashup, Open Calais tagger and Adobe Air toolbar take Telegraph Developer Weekend prizes
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 28 April 2008 at 08:47
Tags: New Media, Telegraph.co.uk, telegraph
Philip Skinner of onlinegalleries.com won the first prize at the web developers’ competition held by the Telegraph this weekend.
Skinner’s winning entry, which netted him £600 in vouchers for Apple products, was a mashup that combines YouTube videos and Telegraph.co.uk news stories on a Google Map.
Mark Ng (a consultant to PressGazette.co.uk and the creator of the previous version of this site) won second place for a tool that categorises Telegraph content — along with feeds from BBC News and Google News — using Reuters’ semantic tagging software Open Calais and creates custom RSS feeds for each tag.
A team that developed a Telegraph toolbar written in Adobe AIR
won third place.
The second and third-place winners took home £400 of Apple vouchers.
Other entries included:
- An application that took keywords from the Telegraph’s motoring RSS feed and searched Google Images to find pictures related to the article.
- A downloadable Telegraph RSS reader, video player and offline reader, which Telegraph CIO Paul Cheesbrough described as a “very professional looking application that we’ll certainly take forwards”.
- A desktop widget for viewing Telegraph RSS feeds.
- A tool to attach a blog to Telegraph stories.
- A program to tag videos and finds relevant related search results from Google while the video is playing
Representatives of some of the Telegraph’s technology partners demonstrated some applications of the technologies they had demonstrated on the first day of the competition
Google presented a tool that uses its translation software to automatically translate Telegraph stories into several languages. Adobe, meanwhile, showed off a Telegraph RSS reader.
Tags: New Media, Telegraph.co.uk, telegraph
