Welcome to Quova’s first “Location Developer Challenge”

March 14th, 2011
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Last year, we opened our API to the developer community allowing users to build location enabled applications for the web, desktop and mobile devices. With location-powered applications continuing to change the way marketers reach consumers in a dynamic online environment, we’re proud to announce our first “Location Developer Challenge.” The challenge? Build the coolest location enabled Web app or find novel ways to demonstrate visualization of the data that captures attention, engagement and clicks using Quova’s API.

We’re kicking off the Challenge at South By South West Interactive (SXSWi) this week in Austin, Texas and will wrap up in June by announcing the winner in fabulous Las Vegas at the Future of Web Apps Conference. But, there’s plenty of fun to be had between these infamous developer conferences.

To start, we’ll be giving away monthly spot bonus awards of $500 to lucky entrants starting in April. The winner of the Location Developer Challenge will join the Quova team, as our guest in Las Vegas, to demo their creation at the Future of Web Apps Conference. Two runners up will receive free Quova IP geolocation services for the website or Web app of their choice.

How to participate:

  1. Sign up for free access to the Quova API at http://developer.quova.com/
  2. Submit your application to the Location Developer Challenge at http://www.quovadevchallenge.com by Friday, April 15, 2011.
  3. Stay tuned to your email and the Quova blog for monthly “spot bonus” winners to will be announced via email and on our blog.
  4. Turn in your app by June 1, 2011.
  5. Grand prize winner will be announced June 17, 2011.
  6. Terms and conditions will be posted on the Developer Challenge website on March 14, 2011.
  7. “Celebrity” judges to be announced – stay tuned!

Quova is a premier source for developers to access location data in its purest format. With this data, we are powering the apps and websites of tomorrow “know where.” Who will develop the hot web app for location? That’s what we’re challenging you to do with the Quova API. We look forward to your feedback along the way, so stay tuned on our blog and Twitter @Quova.