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Best Solution Provider Tool Contest

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All participants at Mashup Camp 7 had the opportunity to vote for the Best Solution Provider Tool presented by Mashup Camp sponsors during the event.

Participants selected the winners based on the following criteria:

  • a novel and engaging way in which the technology delivers features;
  • exceptional creativity and usability in the development of the software Mashup
  • the likelihood that the technology will make a significant impact in some sector of the electronic systems market;
  • the ability to provide systems engineers with new and compelling capabilities and/or the delivery of existing features in a novel and engaging way.

The rules

Check out the Official Contest Rules.

The prizes

One (1) 7x9 engraved plaque will be awarded to both the winner and runner up selected by event attendees who act as judges of the Entries.

In the event of unavailability of the stated prize, Sponsor reserves the right to substitute an item of equal or greater value. Prize is not transferable, exchangeable, or redeemable for cash. Winner will be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, liability release and grant permission to use corporate Sponsor’s name and logo for advertising and promotion (without further compensation to the winner) prior to 12:00pm PST on Sunday, November 16, 2008. Contest void where prohibited or restricted by law.

The winners

Mashup Camp congratulates the following companies for their performance in the Best Solution Provider Tool Contest!


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WINNER: Calais by Thomson Reuters

Calais is a Thomson Reuters initiative that supports the interoperability of content and the company’s mission to deliver pervasive, intelligent information. The Calais Web service enables publishers, site owners and content consumers to automatically metatag the people, places, facts and events in content.

The Open Calais API and developer community is at www.OpenCalais.com.


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RUNNER UP: zembly by Sun Mircosystems

Zembly is the world's first hosted application development environment for Facebook, OpenSocial, Meebo, and other social platforms. Using just your browser and your creativity, and working collaboratively with others, you create and publish Facebook apps, Meebo apps, OpenSocial apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications. We are part of Sun Microsystems and currently in private beta.

For more information on zembly and how to access the private beta, please visit: http://zembly.com.

The contestants

Below is a listing of the Best Solution Provider Tool competitors from Mashup Camp 7.


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Calais by Thomson Reuters

Calais is a Thomson Reuters initiative that supports the interoperability of content and the company’s mission to deliver pervasive, intelligent information. The Calais Web service enables publishers, site owners and content consumers to automatically metatag the people, places, facts and events in content.

The Open Calais API and developer community is at www.OpenCalais.com.


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DistroMash by RadWebTech

RadWebTech is introducing its xWinLib-based DistroMash platform for the mashup community at this year’s MashupCamp. The platform makes it easy to create distribution releases of your mashups that include versioning, tracking, remote installation, monetization, and more. It also provides enhanced functionality that can link your mashup components together in powerful and compelling ways and includes embedded windowing, event handling, data portability, feed generation, and more.

Learn more at www.radwebtech.com.


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Elfenworks Foundation

At the Elfenworks Foundation, our mission is to foster a world In Harmony With HopeSM. Our partners are working to raise awareness, to educate, to research and disseminate knowledge; those who empower and uplift the weak, poor, marginalized and written-off. Our multi-faceted, creative and hardworking team of technology advocates, social entrepreneurs and advisors use expertise in communications, computers, film, music, the law, finance, and business administration to heal, empower and transform. We analyze what's broken, find solutions, remove obstacles, raise awareness, forge alliances, and support the efforts of visionary change-makers.

Learn more at www.elfenworks.org.


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Google Maps API by Google

Google's goal is to move the web forward and to do so in an open way. The developer offerings on code.google.com have expanded over the last few years to include dozens of APIs to access data in our products, projects to make web application development easier and faster, more sophisticated engines to run those applications. An example of this is the Google Maps API which empowers developers to embed Google Maps in their own web pages using JavaScript or Flash.

Learn more at code.google.com.


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IBM Mashup Center by IBM

IBM Mashup Center provides the tools needed by business users and developers alike to access and transform business data into consumable feeds, to create widgets without coding, and to rapidly combine these assets into business mashups and to share them across the business ecosystem.

Learn more at http://www.ibm.com/web20/mashups.


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Presto by JackBe

Presto leverages Enterprise Web 2.0 technologies like Ajax and SOA for enterprise-class solutions for user-driven mashups, collaboration, and SOA virtualization, unleashing breakthroughs in user productivity and increasing the effectiveness of the enterprise portal. Presto can empower any user to access and mashup any data from any application to solve complex tasks on the desktop. Empower your users with capabilities to realize the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies while still adhering to enterprise governance standards.

For more information visit www.jackbe.com/dev.


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Mozenda Web Agent Builder by Mozenda

Every successful mashup is built by combining data. For those instances where the data you need isn't available through an API or feed, there's Mozenda's Web Agent Builder. The Mozenda Web Agent Builder enables users of all technical proficiencies to quickly and easily extract data from the web. The data extracted using the Agent Builder can then be used to create world class mashups, perform critical web research, simplify ecommerce, and turn provide exciting, new dynamic content for websites. Designed with the business user in mind, Mozenda's software gives users all of types the data they need for their mashups and other website needs.

For more information visit http://www.mozenda.com/.

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Open AIM by AOL Developer Network

Open AIM continues to lead the way by providing the most powerful and flexible platform to power your communication, collaboration, and social networking experiences. We've opened up even more to give you unprecedented access to the best of breed tools and services you need to make your applications a success, while providing you with instant access to the AIM community via the new AIM Gallery as well as monetization through AIM Money and UI Customization with Module Plugins!

For more information visit http://dev.aol.com/aim.


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Wetpaint Injected by Wetpaint

Wetpaint envisions a day when the entire web is socially published. To achieve this vision, Wetpaint launched Wetpaint Injected. With a few lines of code and a bit of configuration, Wetpaint Injected makes it possible to embed tools that facilitate socially published content on any web page. The benefit – more content, more engagement, and more traffic to your website.

This is the first time the Wetpaint team has attended Mashup Camp and we’re excited to show how you can seamlessly integrate wiki-style social publishing features into your websites. We’re also interested in hearing your thoughts and ideas on how you might use Wetpaint Injected to make the entire web socially published.

For more information about Wetpaint, visit http://www.wetpaint.com.
For developer details, visit http://www.wetpaintinjected.com.


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zembly by Sun Mircosystems

Zembly is the world's first hosted application development environment for Facebook, OpenSocial, Meebo, and other social platforms. Using just your browser and your creativity, and working collaboratively with others, you create and publish Facebook apps, Meebo apps, OpenSocial apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications. We are part of Sun Microsystems and currently in private beta.

For more information on zembly and how to access the private beta, please visit: http://zembly.com.