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My Dream App final round voting
Eight o'clock (EDT) tomorrow night marks the end of voting for the final round of Phill Ryu's My Dream App competition. What started just over a month ago with 24 eager contestants and their software-concepts has been whittled down by four rounds of voting to the six best ideas as decided by thousands of people like ourselves. The masterminds of the three ideas with the most votes will receive a new MacBook and a contract to have their software made into a full-fledged OS X application, the revenue from which they get a share of. Keeping with tradition (and even going a bit above and beyond what we've seen in the past), everyone who votes in this last round will receive a free license for Overflow 2.0, PhotoPresenter 2.6, and $5 off one of the new Insanely Great Tees from Monkey Business Labs.
Competition between the contenders has been brutal this round, with almost all of the ideas making it into the top three at one time or another over the past day, with Atmosphere (one of the app's I voted for, yay!) currently in the lead. The one contestant that has stayed consistent throughout the voting has been Blossom, of which Steve Wozniak has to say; "This would only be remotely entertaining if the plant was marijuana or opium and when you did certain things like actually work, you killed your crop. Maybe you could make virtual cash and compete online for the best cash crop. In order to grow the weed and heroin you have to browse certain web sites that would require you be smoking weed to start with; like the Microsoft.com Vista developer site."
So get out there and vote! It only takes a few minutes, you get yourself some great free software, and in the process help decide the winner of a great competition that will eventually benefit you through new and interesting applications to play with.
Update: "What, you mean today isn't Wednesday?" Thanks for pointing out my errors guys, I must be losing it.
Update, the second: Ok, here's the deal on the whole "who's on first" business. I do have insider information when it comes to MDA, but not in the case of this vote. Without even really thinking about it, I made a (silly now that I think of it) assumption that the first, second, third etc histogram bars corresponded to the first, second,third etc applications listed below. I would never intentionally do anything to skew the results. Sorry about the confusion
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Oper said 1:07PM on 10-24-2006
Start talk or ...?
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moksha said 1:09PM on 10-24-2006
You mean tomorrow night? It specifically says Wednesday night on their site. Also, how do you know Atmosphere is in the lead?
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KRaS said 1:40PM on 10-24-2006
Umm... u may want to fix up that link to the Overflow site :)
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ryank said 1:11PM on 10-24-2006
Yay Atmosphere!
Also, unrelated, but the flashing ad on the main page that makes the entire right portion of the site flash as well? Really annoying. Really, really annoying.
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Elliot said 1:24PM on 10-24-2006
Moksha raises some good questions.
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marc cardwell said 1:40PM on 10-24-2006
I agree with #3: Really annoying. Really, really annoying. Really.
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Matt said 1:40PM on 10-24-2006
Is it fair to the competition to reveal Atmosphere is in the lead? Just wondering.
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Ken C said 2:06PM on 10-24-2006
No cause when right after you vote it will show the current standings.
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Elliot said 2:16PM on 10-24-2006
Ken C, that's actually not true on this round. You just see the histogram of the votes, but not no names are attached. Dan must have some special insider dope.
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Matt said 2:18PM on 10-24-2006
Ken C, the current standings are color-coded. You do not know which app concept is associated with each color. Dan gave away the front-runner. Phil intended for the final round to be more fair than previous rounds by not letting the voters know the standings while voting is ongoing.
I'm questioning the fairness of divulging that information so soon in the voting process.
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Elliot said 2:26PM on 10-24-2006
I second Matt's questioning. Dan, what's up? You there?
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icerabbit said 2:36PM on 10-24-2006
Crossing fingers for portal and atmosphere.
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Matt said 2:39PM on 10-24-2006
If you see the "front-runner" abruptly start falling in the standings (or any other application make sudden moves) you'll know why.
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Nik Fletcher said 3:10PM on 10-24-2006
A great quote from Woz... will be interesting to watch how all this voting ends up going!
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Maarten said 5:37PM on 10-24-2006
Gotta love Woz's comment on Blossom! Hahaha
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Elliot said 4:19PM on 10-24-2006
Um, thanks for the correction or whatever, but you still haven't actually changed the post. You're still telling everyone the secret, or at least supposing to, (as you might be wrong). Point is, have some responsibility and don't leave this up.
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Amanuel said 4:21PM on 10-24-2006
My favs are Atmosphere, Portal and my #1 choice Hijack. I've given my reasons on my blog. With my chi-pet dying every 3 days, I have had to cut Blossom from the top 3.
This has been an awesome contest...and to See the Woz commenting/voting is just too cool.
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Phosphor said 4:48AM on 10-25-2006
Well, this is encouraging.
I can't even make it through the registration process in order to vote.
I tried several times, and have seen interstitial pages saying that my LogIn had been successful, only to be dumped back onto the site as though I hadn't registered. Trying to LogIn again didn't work.
I tried the "Change Password" routine. Got the auto-generated email, and followed the instructions
Didn't work.
Sent an email to admin@mydreamapp.com. It was returned to me with a failure notice, telling me that the address I used was no longer accepting emails.
I see this as a wicked cool idea, but with a lot of flaws in the execution.
Plus...the apps REALLY aren't all that highly inspired.
I just wanted the free license for Overflow and PhotoPresenter.
Føck 'em.
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