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The 1st nextstop API Challenge is now over!

We were really impressed with the quality of all the submissions, and more than anything are excited to see nextstop recommendations powering new applications on the web. Thanks so much for entering -- we hope to run another challenge soon.

API Challenge Winners

  • Grand Prize ($1000): Travel Around the World, a highly visual iPhone application that combines nextstop guides and recommendations with other nearby photos to create an immersive location-aware experience. Travel Around the World also integrates with Google Maps to provide directions from your current location to anything you find interesting, as well as one click searching for related content on the web, sharing via Twitter, and even translating any recommendation into the language of your choice.
  • 2nd Place ($250): Unrut, helps users discover new places (and get out of the rut of always going to the same old spots) by matching a list of places the user has already been with recommendations for new places to go from nextstop and other sources. You can manually mark places you've been, or link up your Foursquare account and mark these places automatically.
  • 3rd Place ($250): What’s Next?, a location aware iPhone application allows you to view places around you in a fast native application, and easily find that next gem in any location you live or may be visiting.

Honorable Mentions

Although we couldn't award prizes to these applications, they each demonstrated a creative new use of the nextstop API and we wanted to include them here.

  • A nextstop search/map widget for use on the desktop or mobile devices. Video. Download widget.
  • Ask a stranger Mashes up Twitter and nextstop to show recommended places and twitter users wherever you are headed.
  • A search builder for the nextstop API that can convert results to PDF or make accessible via a text-to-speech program and a custom phone number. http://xedgetube.appspot.com/

    • We're going to be adding a list of all users of the nextstop API to our API site. If you'd like to be included please just let us know.

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