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First 3 My Dream App finalists announced

by Scott McNulty Sep 6th 2006 at 7:30AM



Out of the 2,761 submitted ideas the final 24 contestants have been picked in My Dream App. Of course we won't find out all the finalists at once, no Phill Ryu is too much of a showman for that. Instead he tempts us with the first three:
  • Herald - an RSS reader (lord knows we need another one of those) that uses the newspaper as a visual metaphor. The twist is that user would be able to share and publish their subscriptions in a variety of ways.
  • Stick-It - think Stickies on steroids. You'll be able to stick notes on applications, windows, anything.
  • Desktop Wars - a real time strategy game that transforms your desktop into a war zone complete with voice, mouse, and motion interaction.
Keep in mind that these are just ideas at the moment, but they might become a reality. Also recall that yours truly is serving on the panel of blogger judges.


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Chris_B

BORING.

Was there just no real interest or was this really the best anyone had to offer?

September 06 2006 at 7:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Keith Duncan

Damn I was writing an app similar to this Herald that you speak of! Nevermind, I guess i'll just buy it.

September 06 2006 at 11:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Caltsar

The only thing up there that looks at all useful that hasn't already been done to death (or is just plain pointless) is the stickies app. I'd love to have an application that allows me to take notes anywhere on my computer (especially if it works with a tablet).

I saw plenty of good ideas in the contest, so how did this make it to finalist?

September 06 2006 at 11:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LD

Was this called "My Dream Crap"? Or did no one enter?

Sync stuff is the best. Was there not a single soul who enter a sync app?

September 06 2006 at 11:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matthew

Boy, how pedestrian. I was hoping for something a little more creative given the context of the contest. Oh well.

September 06 2006 at 9:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Str

Wow... All of that crap is just so utterly, utterly useless... I sincerely hope there will be some more interesting finalists.

September 06 2006 at 9:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jono

Amen to that mungler.

Lot's of us are using more than 1 computer these days, & I can't wait until someone comes out with something like this.

Add to that syncing your favourite RSS reader (read news atricles, unread news articles, feeds added etc.)

September 06 2006 at 9:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mungler

Amen to that Dave!

September 06 2006 at 8:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ultim8fury

All I ever wanted was a transport stream component for Quicktime. To allow the playback of Mpeg2 and H.264 transport streams in frontrow/quicktime.

September 06 2006 at 8:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

Amen to that Magnus!!!!!

September 06 2006 at 8:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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