TopCoder announced the winners of the Truveo Developer Challenge. Competing for a prize pool of $100,000, developers were set loose to build custom applications that use Truveo's open API, to build the next great video search application. Competitors leveraged Truveo, the world's leading video search engine with a continuously-updated index of more than 200 million Web videos, to create 93 powerful new applications in just over two months of competition.

Unleashing their creativity, developers introduced new applications ranging from a 3D elliptical orbit display for finding and sharing online videos, to a free new tool for creating animated .GIF images from online videos. All 93 applications are immediately available to the public through the main competition website, where the full gallery of free applications can be viewed and downloaded: http://www.topcoder.com/truveo. Competitors also posted their new widgets, gadgets, mashups and web applications to social media sites like Facebook and MySpace for real-world use and evaluation. The judging criteria included five equally weighted categories: Download and usage statistics; innovation; best use of the Truveo API and functionality; Truveo favorites; and popularity in peer review judging by the global TopCoder community.

Applying the skills of TopCoder's global community of top-ranked software designers and developers, the resulting applications delivered upon the challenge to extend the rich functionality of Truveo's open APIs by creating powerful solutions that turn websites and social networks into dynamic destinations for online video. Developers were also encouraged to use the Truveo API with different AOL open APIs to create new applications, such as Open AIM, for which the TopCoder community built 53 new applications in a successful Open AIM Developer Challenge, http://www.topcoder.com/openaim, earlier this year.