At the end of 2009, Suburb Matchmaker, an application that I created with two friends, won the Best Student Entry price in a contest sponsored by the Government 2.0 Taskforce. Once again, Suburb Matchmaker has been submitted to another contest after some additional work that has been done to improve it. This competition is called apps4nsw, and it has the aim to promote the development of creative and innovative applications on web using data from the public sector.
There are three categories available: Ideas, Ideas (students) and Applications. In this opportunity we are participating with an idea that we called 'Land My Business' and with 'Suburb Martchmaker' as application. Although we wanted to submit 'Land my Business' as application after creating the idea last Saturday ( 20th of March 2010) and being nominated as one of the two winners at the recent apps4nsw Hackfest, the submissions were open until yesterday and it was not possible to get ready the domain ready on time. However, we believe that our idea is very useful and we would like to continue developing it as we did with Suburb Matchmaker.
If you want to know more about Suburb Matchmaker and Land my Business, we have posted two short presentations that could give you an idea of both concepts.
- Land My Business Presentation
- Suburb Matchmaker Presentation with Audio
You can find our entries in the contest for Suburb-matchmaker as Application and for Land-my-Business as Idea.
We are open to receive comments, suggestions and any feedback that can help us to improve both concepts.
