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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