Truveo Developer
Challenge Offers $100,000 in Prizes for New Video Search Applications World's
Top Developers Compete to Build Innovative New Video Search Applications Glastonbury, Conn.
- May 19, 2008 - TopCoder®, Inc., the leader in online programming
competition, skills assessment and competitive software development,
today announced the Truveo Developer Challenge. With a prize pool of
$100,000, developers will compete to build customized applications that
use Truveo's open API for video search available at developer.truveo.com. Truveo is the world's leading video
search engine with an index containing over 170 million videos that
is continuously updated, cleaned and expanded to include the latest
videos from the most popular video destinations on the Web. Competition
details are available at www.topcoder.com/truveo and Truveo can be accessed at www.truveo.com. Building off the success of
AOL's Open AIM Developer Challenge, which introduced more than 50
exciting new plug-in applications for AIM (see today's press release announcing winners or visit the challenge
homepage at: http://www.topcoder.com/openaim), TopCoder will apply the
skills of its global community of top ranked software designers and
developers to extend the rich functionality of Truveo's open APIs,
competing to build the most exciting new video search applications.
Developers can turn any website or social network, into the ultimate
destination for online video with new and creative solutions that showcase
millions of videos. Contestants can also enhance an existing website
with an application placing relevant video clips alongside other content
for a more engaging experience. Participants are being encouraged to
build widgets, gadgets or applications for social network sites, AIM,
Web portals or operating systems such as Microsoft Vista or Apple OSX.
Developers are also being encouraged to use the Truveo API with different
AOL open APIs to create new applications. "TopCoder competitions attract
the world's top developers so we are very excited to give them a chance
to unleash their creativity and work with a product as cutting edge,
fun and exciting as Truveo," said Denis Horgan, Vice President
of Community Development for TopCoder. "By working with TopCoder
on the Truveo Developer's Challenge, we've set the top developers
in the world loose to see what creative video-based search applications
they can build with Truveo's open APIs," said Kevin Conroy, Executive
Vice President of AOL. "We're excited to see what new innovations
arise from the creativity of the TopCoder community." Truveo is the leading video
search engine on the Web, and powers many of the Web's most popular
video destinations, from AOL, Microsoft Corporation, CNET's Search.com,
to hundreds of other web sites and applications worldwide. Across the
network of websites it powers, Truveo reaches an audience of over 70
million users every month. Join the Competition AOL has teamed
up with TopCoder to put the Truveo Open APIs in the hands of the best
developers in the world. Now it's your chance to show us what you've
got for a piece of $100,000 in prize money. We will award nine (9) $10,000
prizes and twenty (20) $500 prizes for the most creative, successful
and ingenious submissions. To enter, view
all challenge rules and details online at www.topcoder.com/truveo. Showcase your application on your own site or blog, or
any one of the social network sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster,
Bebo, Cyworld, Skyblog, Hi5, Orkut, or Live Journal.
Passing submissions will be showcased on the AOL Developer Network and TopCoder as well. Submissions
must be received by July 21, 2008 and winners will be judged on innovation,
actual usage statistics, best use of the Truveo search functionality
and popularity as voted upon by both Truveo and the TopCoder member
community. Winners will be announced in a joint press release by Truveo
and TopCoder on July 31, 2008. The Truveo Video Search APIs
come in four flavors: XML, AJAX, Flash and Ruby. The XML API allows
users to submit REST-style queries and receive XML-formatted results
to standard HTTP GET requests. The AJAX API runs in the browser and
lets client applications access video search results directly from JavaScript.
The Flash API runs in Macromedia Flash and allows Flash applications
to access video search results. The Ruby API is a mapping of the XML
API for use in Ruby programs. About Truveo Truveo is the search engine
for video, making it possible for consumers to search and browse through
over 100 million videos from thousands of sources across the Web. Truveo
was founded by some of the industry's leading experts in video search
technology and has built one of the largest and most up-to-date indexes
of high-quality video on the Web. As a result, Truveo enables users
to find video that cannot be found in any other search engine. Truveo
first launched its industry-leading search engine in 2005 and today,
the Truveo search engine powers video search on some of the most popular
destinations on the Web, including AOL Video, AOL Search, Brightcove,
CBS RADIO's sites, Clevver, CSTV, Excite, Flock, Infospace, Kosmix,
Microsoft Corporation, Pageflakes, PureVideo, Qwest, CNET's Search.com,
Sportingo, Widgetbox and YourMinis, reaching an audience of over 70
million users a month. Truveo's critically-acclaimed flagship destination, www.truveo.com, has received widespread praise, establishing
itself as the leader in the fast-growing video search market. About TopCoder, Inc. TopCoder is the world's largest
competitive software development community with over 150,000 developers
representing over 200 countries. TopCoder hosts the largest and most
comprehensive developer ratings and performance metrics available. The
TopCoder community builds software for a wide-ranging client base through
a competitive, rigorous, standards based methodology. This methodology
results in a highly consistent set of software components allowing a
software-as-parts approach to application development. TopCoder makes
this large library of software components built through competition
available to all of our clients. Utilizing a world-wide member base
and this library, TopCoder seeks to lower the cost of software development
while increasing both the speed at which applications can be developed
and the quality of the ultimate application. For more information about
sponsoring TopCoder events, recruiting TopCoder members and utilizing
TopCoder's software services, visit http://www.topcoder.com. TopCoder is a registered trademark of TopCoder, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. ### |
