seekda's Web Services Ideas Contest

The contest took place in September 2008, we thank all participants for sharing their great ideas.

Winners

• 1st price: Comment Guard
  (Mr. Ricci, Italy)
  The Comment Guard Web Service helps operating websites which allow commenting (blogs, product reviews, hotel reviews, etc.). The Web Service envisioned detects offensive language and spam automatically. In a later stage the service also allows to monitor comments and reviews on certain entities on the complete Web.
• 2nd price: Web Service Personal Address Book
  (Mrs. Azmeh, France)
  This submission suggests some extensions to the current seekda search engine, including Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) that will allow users to use additional filter criteria.

Below the original call for submissions

Our search engine contains thousands of services whose functionalities range from DNA analyze and simple calculations to fraud detection and online payments. At seekda we are thinking every day about what kind of things could be offered as services or how services could be used in completely new contexts. Take part in our contest and let us know about your ideas. You just describe what your conceived service should be able to do and who might use it for what purpose. The 10 most promising submissions will be evaluated by an international jury. Win your new gadget (an eeePC or an ipod).

Judging

Be creative! We are interested in your ideas, be it a completely new service that does not exist, but would be useful to you (or someone else); or be it an existing service which can be used in a completely different context.

Your idea will be mainly evaluated according to the following criteria:

• How creative/novel is your idea?
• How big is the potential business value?
• Is your idea realizable?
• How complete are the question from the guidelines answered?

Out of all submissions we select the top 10 entries and present them to an international jury of experts (to be anounced)

Prizes

The winner will get a Asus EeePC notebook.

The second and third place will be rewarded with an Apple iPod shuffle 1GB.

How to participate

• Sign Up and create your seekda account or login, if you are already a registered user.
• Get inspiration using our seekda search engine.
• Describe your idea for a great service and fill out the submission form.

Schedule

Share your ideas with us:

• Submission must be made until 26th September 2008.
• Winner will be announced 3rd October 2008.

Guidelines

• Submissions must be made in English
• The abstract shall not exceed 1000 characters
• The detailed description may not exceed 3 pages
• The following must be answered
  1. What is the real-world problem the service addresses?
  2. How is the real-world problem solved if no Web Services are used?
  3. What is innovative and new about your idea?
  4. How much savings (or new value) can be generated with your service idea?
  5. Who is the target audience for the service?
  6. Have you (or someone else) already been working on this service?
  7. How can the service be realized on a technical level?

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