Valued around $100,000

Description: Integration contest is open to existing medium and large businesses.  Bring your ideas to integrate with our API and we will provide resources for analysis and prototyping.

Prizes: 4 prices each valued at $25,000 each.

• One on site resource for  a month  (requirements analysis, documentation, scoping and proto typing)
• One offshore resource for a month (Development, testing, deployment assistance).
• we cover all the expenses travel and accommodation expenses.

Dates:

• Provide your integration idea by April 5th.
• Winners will be announced on  June 1st.
• All work to be done by OCT 2010.

Samples:

Integration with the business applications and  checkout systems for confirmation processing only (not payment apps).

Integration with checkin systems for ticketing and rewards, memberships, etc.(Minimal changes to your existing business processes).

Integration with marketing systems for promotional offers.

Eligibility:

Proposals from Medium and large businesses in the United States only.

End Clients (Core business is not pure information technology business).

Information Technology companies can submit proposals for an end client.

In this case our team can work with you at the client location or your location, depending on the nature of the project executed.

Selection Criteria:

Selection of consulting company or end client will be based on the most effective use of the API.

1. i.e. the one that benefits the consumer the most.

2. The ones that won’t be considered a stretch and the ones that will become a natural extension to the consumer’s current experiences.

3. Consumer facing apps will be given preference over enterprise or backend apps.

Terms and conditions:

Commitment to go live before OCT 2010 is required.

Client signs a contract to pay for the resources if the live date cannot be met for a reason that is not related to our resources (system or consultants).

Details for UI level Integration: add to wallet

For Details on API Level Integration check out the following url API integration

In preparation for the cradless pay launch, we are announcing a developer contest.  The contest is aimed at innovative use of our Add To Wallet API,

so that consumers can carry confirmations, memberships, tickets or any thing that they typically carry in their wallet on their smart phone.

Applications will purely be judged by the use of this free to use API. Participation in other services provided by cradles pay is not required.

Prizes:

First Prize: $4000

Second prize: $2000

8 Third Prizes:  8 google Nexus one Phones.

Eligibility: Developers can participate from any part of the world.

The target audience of your application/website is limited to US audience only. Contests for other countries might be announced at  a later date.

Dates:

Idea submission: End date: March 1st 2010.

Application submission: End Date: May 1st  2010.

App Live Date:  June 1st 2010.

Call Count Period: June 2010 to Aug 2010.

Winners will be announced on Sep 1st.

Judging criteria:

Top 10 applications that made most calls to the add to wallet API . Uniqueness of the calls will be verified by wallet key and date.

All online real time applications/websites are eligible to participate.

Batch calls/Jobs are allowed, if the request is in response to a customer activities on your app/web site. But application approval for this might take time.

Examples:

Ticketing applications.

Membership  applications.

Loyalty applications.

Purchase confirmations for pickup.

Create a blog/network for your location. Yourtown.closebys.com.

go to http://closebys.com/blog/wp-signup.php to create yours.

Provide content that will attract Local Traffic.

Please use home internet connection to create a blog. Internet connections with 3G modems cannot detect locations accurately.

Prizes:

First Prize $1000

2 Second Prizes: google nexus one phones

Judging criteria.

1 Point will be assigned for each unique visit to the blog.

20 Points will be assigned for each user who sign up to your blog.

3 Networks that gets most points will be chosen for the first, second and third prizes.

Eligibility:

This contest is only open to US networks and blogs.

Contests for other countries will be launched at a later date.

Additional Benefits:

Revenue opportunity using the advertisements provided by us or your own advertisements.

In Preparation for  the launch of “create your own location based network”, we are announcing a word press plug in contest.

Prizes

First Prize: $1000

Two Second Prizes: Google Nexus One.

Requirements.

1. Word press plugin compatible with Word press Mu.

2. Plugin  should use location information to some capacity.

3. Relevant and useful to local communities.

Eligibility:

Every one is eligible to participate. No country restrictions.

Dates:

Submit your ideas by Feb 15th.

Submit your app by March 15th.

Winners will be announced on April 15th.

Examples -

Location based classifieds(Already Available).

Location based realtor Listings or open house listings.

Other plugins that are based out of location based feeds.

Judging criteria:

The plugins that are activated most on the closebys network blogs.

Or the plugin that is rated most by blog administrators.