Continuing International Push, Facebook Announces Developer Contest in India
Facebook is fighting hard to gain ground against Orkut in India, and now is launching a new developer contest for original applications developed in the country.
Facebook has just announced the Facebook Developer Contest – India, giving resident developers in India a shot at winning cash prizes in one of two categories: Facebook Applications and Facebook Connect integrations. The contest runs from now until September 11, and is only open to residents of India.
The contest is a move to spur development in a country that has seen incredible growth recently, with Facebook users in India jumping to more than 3 million from 1.6 million in May. By luring developer attention, Facebook hopes to grab more users from Orkut, which remains the dominant social networking site in India.
This contest is the latest in the “Build, Engage, Win” series that Facebook has created targeting developers in specific countries. Winners from France and Spain were announced in May, and German winners were announced last October. Facebook continues to move into more and more international markets, and encouraging developers from more countries to become involved in building home-grown applications will spur more interest in Facebook – and let more users better relate to apps on the Facebook Platform.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:01 am
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October 27th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Winners Announced for the Facebook Developer Contest – India
First Prize goes to GRABBLER
GRABBER, a unique multiplayer wordgame built by a new social networking venture iPlaySocial.com floated by the parent company Trellisys.net
GRABLER is a turn based board game that engages players multi-player environment. Grabbler challenges users to build their vocabularies while at the same time is strategic in nature. The game play requires the players to create interlocking words using alphabets placed on cubes while strategy involves grabbing as many cubes of your opponents as possible.
See the Inside Social Games Review
http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/04/17/grabbler-is-a-new-word-game-on-facebook/
October 28th, 2009 at 9:25 am
[...] has tapped an application winner in its Facebook Developer Contest – India, with the top prize going to word game [...]