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Create a Google Gadget.
Think about what you'd like to see on Google that isn't already there. Maybe it's an event tracker for your school, a new game, or a little techno art – use your imagination! Then, get started.
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Submit
your gadget by November 5, 2006.
Be sure to submit your gadget using these links. (Gadgets submitted on other pages won't be entered in the Awards.)
Submit a universal gadget for the Awards
Submit a desktop gadget for the Awards |
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Check out the competition – and the winning gadgets.
A few weeks after the challenge starts, you'll be able to road-test gadgets people have submitted for the Gadget Awards at the Submitted Gadgets directory. Our top gadget experts (see below) will choose the winners from the directory, and in December we'll announce them to the world on the Gadget Award Winners page.
Note: it may take up to a week for your gadget to appear in the Submitted Gadgets directory.
Examples of gadgets:
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What will your gadget be?
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Awards Categories and Judges: |
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Best overall gadgets
"Gadgets that rule"
One award each for each best universal gadget and the best desktop gadget. These gadgets will be creative, visually appealing, popular, and make the best use of the API.
Judged by: Panel of all 5 judges
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Most useful gadget
"Gadget better than a toaster"
Judged by: Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine
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Most intelligent gadget
"Gadget smarter than you are"
Judged by: John Hennessy, President of Stanford University |
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Gadget most
likely to help you get a date
"Wing man gadget"
Judged by: Rob Malda, a.k.a. "Commander Taco," Founder of Slashdot |
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Most addictive gadget
"Gadget that will keep you up at night"
Judged by: Randy Bryant, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University |
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Prettiest gadget
"Awwww sweet gadget!"
Judged by: Gina Pell, CEO & Founder of Splendora.com |
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Top university for gadget submission
"Innovator U"
Recognizes the school with the most submissions to make the list of top 100 gadgets
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Common Questions:
What's a Google Gadget?
The word "gadget" covers a wide range of mini-applications, from simple HTML to complex applications.
It could be a calendar, a weather globe, or anything else you can dream up. Gadgets can be added to the Google Homepage or your own webpage. Create a gadget.
How can my friends add my gadget to their own Google personalized homepages?
Here are a few steps you can send them, along with your gadget's URL, so they can put your gadget on the Google homepage:
- Go to http://www.google.com/ig
- To add a gadget, you need to have a personalized homepage. If you don't already have one already, you can create one by clicking Personalize your Google homepage. Then sign in with an existing Google Account, or create a new one.
- Once you have a personalized homepage, you can add gadgets to it by clicking Add content in the upper left corner. This takes you to the gadget directory. You can use the directory to search for gadgets and add the ones you like to your homepage.
- Click Add by URL (next to the "Search Homepage Content" button). In the Add by URL text box, enter the URL of the gadget you want, and click Add.
Within a week or so after you submit your gadget for the contest, it should appear on the Submitted Gadgets page.
What could I win?
We'll let everyone know who the top student gadget innovators are by promoting the Gadget Award Winners page on every Google personalized homepage. We'll also send each winner a trophy to show off to friends and tough professors. (Not to mention the fact that you'll get to list this accomplishment on your resume and grad school applications forevermore.)
How will you pick the top 100 gadgets?
A panel of Googlers will use algorithms and some good common sense to pick the top gadgets that make the best use of the APIs, attract the most users, look the best, and are most creative.
Is this really just for college students?
Only university, college, or vocational school students with email addresses ending in edu and who live and attend school in the United States are eligible for the Awards. (See the Rules for more details.) Google is always looking for great ideas, and the Google Gadget Awards is a new way for us to find them at the university level. We do welcome Google Gadget submissions from non-university students on the universal gadgets standard submission page and the desktop gadgets standard submission page, but those submissions are not entered in the contest.
I have more questions. Where do I go?
If you have questions about making gadgets in general, you can visit the Google Gadgets page (hint: click through and keep an eye out for a "Developer Guide"). If you're still having issues, visit one of our discussion groups where you can post questions about our gadget APIs and search for answers:
For questions about the Awards specifically, take a look at the Rules. If your question isn't answered there, try visiting this discussion group where you can talk about the Awards and post your own questions:
No Purchase Necessary. Contest open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia 16 or older. Entrants must be enrolled as full or part time students in a university, college or vocational school and be the authorized account holder of an email address ending in edu. Contest begins August 23, 2006 and ends November 5, 2006. Entry constitutes acceptance of and agreement to be bound by official rules available at http://www.google.com/events/gadgetawards/rules.html. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.
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