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iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest

Posted by timothy on from the cross-platform dept.

imamac writes "Startup Weekend was a 54-hour coding marathon held on Microsoft's campus last weekend. It was designed to encourage the use of MS programming technologies. However, the winner of the contest was an iPhone app: '"Awkward," whispered Startup Weekend organizer Clint Nelsen into the microphone upon announcing the top vote getter.'"

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  1. Inaccurate Summary? by clang_jangle · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually, if you follow the link the first comment on TFA says:

    Actually the Top Award was given to another startup, Search Kick. they got the MS prize but also the prize of the design incubator. the other prize, public vote, was given to learnthatname. all great projects !

    I haven't bothered to confirm it, but that's the claim.

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  2. Re:And the app does? by clone53421 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's called "Learn That Name" and it's found in the second link from TFS, not the first link.

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  3. Re:And the app does? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It wins contests, obviously.

  4. Re:Not so awkward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > What, was someone supposed to write an app for the Microsoft phone?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile

    Yeah, they kinda were...

  5. Re:54 hours? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That works out to two days, using my Microsoft calculator.

    That's what my Electronic Arts time sheet says also.

  6. Also held on Microsoft campus by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Granted it moves every year, but this year it was also held at the Microsoft campus - and the 14 other apps were all written for Windows Mobile.

    Microsoft sponsored, at the Microsoft Campus, with mostly Microsoft apps - well, is it really so inaccurate to label it a Microsoft event even though technically it is not?

    It's close enough to be funny anyway.

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  7. Re:54 hours? by iYk6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Verizon rep says that 54 hours is the same thing as 54 minutes, which is less than an hour.

  8. Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by squallbsr · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, the iPhone SDK is a free download from ADC (you have access to it from the free developer account).

    The $100 is for a code signing key that allows you to put those binaries on an actual iPhone and to submit it to the app store

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  9. Re:Startup Weekend NOT An MS Event by Schnapple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Startup Weekend in general isn't an MS program, only the BizSpark program that helped organize this particular event.

    Well let's give them a little credit in not requiring everyone to only use MS products and develop for MS platforms.

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