Feedster launches development contest and blog search
9 November 2004
RSS and blog search engine Feedster has announced the launch of its developer network and contest for best new applications and uses for its technology.
Scott Johnson, Feedster VP of engineering said: "To show our appreciation for the efforts developers put forth to conceive new and innovative uses for Feedster's Search applications, we created a contest with a meaningful reward.
"I am often amazed by the ideas that are conceived as extensions or new applications to our technology. I hope this contest will provide added incentive for new ideas."
The company has revealed that iPods will be awarded to the winners for the best use of Feedster in the following categories: standalone RSS aggregator, Web application, invoking a specific category (i.e. jobs.feedster.com), tutorial for RSS newbies, advanced search documentation, Safari extension, Firefox extension, Thunderbird extension, with a publishing engine like TypePad or WordPress. iPods will also be given for winners of the oddest use of Feedster and a wildcard for the overall favourite application.
Winners will become Founding Members of the Feedster Developer Network, listed prominently in the directory with links to their winning entries and web sites.
Feedster has also launched its blogs only search at http://blogs.feedster.com as the company claims there is so much non-blog information floating around in RSS feeds now.
Feedster CEO Scott Rafer commented: "The point is, all the hard-core bloggers are annoyed at all the random stuff in the database, such as jobs and news and stuff."
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