Winners of the writable API competition

Announcing the three prize winners of the O'Reilly writable API competition.

Last month we ran a developer competition around the newly released Fluidinfo writable API for O'Reilly books and authors. The three judges — Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly editor Mike Loukides, and O'Reilly GM Joe Wikert — have today announced the winners.

First prize: Book Chirpa

Mark McSpadden gets first prize for Book Chirpa. Mark wins an OSCON package that includes a full conference pass, coach airfare from within the US, and 4 nights hotel accommodation. Book Chirpa was "built to explore what people on Twitter are saying about O'Reilly books." It can show you the stream of O'Reilly book mentions, trending books, or a virtual library of all O'Reilly books mentioned on Twitter.

Second prize: Skillshelves

Jonas Neubert gets second prize for Skillshelves. Jonas wins his choice of either an iPad 2 or a Xoom tablet. Skillshelves lets you "Show the world what tech topics you are an expert in — simply by making a list of O'Reilly books in your bookshelf."

Third prize: FluidCV

Eric Seidel gets third prize for FluidCV. Eric wins his choice of $500 worth of O'Reilly ebooks and/or videos. FluidCV pulls together information for your CV from tags in Fluidinfo, allowing the dynamic construction of a CV just by tagging relevant objects in Fluidinfo. Tag an O'Reilly book in Fluidinfo and the book cover and associated skill automatically appears in your CV. Eric's own FluidCV can be seen here.

Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to all who entered.

[Disclosure: Tim O'Reilly is an investor in Fluidinfo.]

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Mark McSpadden [13 May 2011 07:32 AM]

Thanks for a great contest and data set. I learned a ton about Fluidinfo both from digging in to the site and from the contributions and openness of everyone competing.

(Not to mention that I discovered several O'Reilly titles that have already made it into my library.)

Terry Jones [13 May 2011 07:51 AM]

And thanks for entering! Congrats :-) Please feel free to drop by #fluidinfo on IRC to receive your case of virtual champagne.

Michael H [13 May 2011 09:02 AM]

Congratulations to the winners. There were some very intriguing entries into the competition.

ina [30 June 2011 08:49 PM]

seeing how there were only four working entries in the contest, is it possible that the fourth working entry get the leftover tablet?