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- rumblestrut, on 11/11/2008, -1/+5Developer beware. I've watched a friend of mine have his idea completely stolen in a similar project. My friend entered a contest through a certain hardware company that makes routers, switches, etc. and his team made it to the finals of the contest. I cheered him on, was really happy for him and his team. Pretty exciting stuff.
And then, his team wasn't selected. Yet, not long after the contest ended, let's call it an iprize, a lot of featured from his idea were integrated into another (previously defunct) division of the company. He's not going to pursue legal action because he simply can't afford to against this behemoth of a company, but he's quite jaded from the whole experience.
Developers (and other big idea people), just find a way to get your idea out the door on your own. You can do it! You don't need crap like this. Make it your own and run with it. - LogicBomB, on 11/11/2008, -2/+5None of these blew my skirt up.
- thescimitar, on 11/11/2008, -1/+3Socialized R&D. When you can't afford research or don't want to.
- PaulOwen, on 11/11/2008, -0/+2I don't know why you were dugg down.
That's far closer to the truth than most diggtards think. - LogicBomB, on 11/11/2008, -1/+1Do what the market needs, not what you want the market to need.
- ifonly, on 11/11/2008, -2/+2What a load of *****.
- SlappyJ, on 11/11/2008, -0/+0I think more accurately, this has nothing to do with with R&D. Yeah, if Amazon sees something they like they're invest. But read the fine print: every finalist will be involved in Amazon marketing. $100,000 is a cheap way to get a ton of companies using AWS and weeding out the success stories to use in their marketing. The AWS Startup Challenge is a marketing vehicle for Amazon's web services, plain and simple.
- jamspt, on 11/11/2008, -2/+1My project wasn't selected, granted we threw it together in 45 days...
Sucks.
I can't wait until the market is looking for more than just video conversion and file storage - how boring is that. - Prysorra, on 11/11/2008, -3/+2Like Googe Apps contests.....you're all doing it for them.
- f80211b, on 11/11/2008, -2/+1Wow these website ideas suck! I don't think an average person would use any of them. I thought knewton was cool until I saw that it would cost you $1300.00.... $800.00 if you do it now... Quick go do it!
- worldshine, on 11/11/2008, -1/+0I think encoding.com is an amazing application and should be selected as the winner.
- Arock66, on 11/11/2008, -2/+1No Dropbox?
- nickbou, on 11/11/2008, -1/+0Sonian and Yieldex win with the most corporate and technical buzz words used in a paragraph summary. I THINK Sonian keeps track of your incoming and outgoing communications and Yieldex tells you where you should spend your advertising money.
Most of these are niche services, but that's fine. Personally I think Encoding.com and Knewton show promise. - inactive, on 11/11/2008, -8/+1This is the least amount of comments I have ever seen on a front page item, so lets spice things up a bit.
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