WP7 Unleashed - Bellevue Recap
Last week we had another WP7 Unleashed event, this time it was held in Bellevue. There was a total of 125 people that registered for this event. We got started just after 8:30am, and had an extra session on User Experience by David Kelley. Overall it was a really good event. The only downside was having to leave at 3:30am to drive up to Bellevue, and then driving back to Portland and getting home just before 2am. Was it worth it? Absolutely!
Below are the teams who submitted apps for the contest. NOTE: the attendees only had two hours to create these applications.
Happy Tweets - This app looks at your tweets and using an algorithm to determine how happy you are based upon your tweets. It used the panorama control, shows a user's happiest and saddest tweets, and changes background color based upon how happy the user is.
Lockdown - This app locks the device and then if the device is bumped /moved it will flash, vibrate, and email the user with the coordinates of where the phone is now at.
Druminator - In this app your are playing on a set of drums, and plays audio through the speakers. A user can change their drum kit, and also listen to backing tracks while they're hammering away.
Bosstinator - In this app you add projects and tasks with estimates and then send them to your boss. This is great for when your boss walks into your office at 4:58 and asks you for an estimates, demanding that you get it to him before you go home.
Megamillions - This app will generate lucky numbers. The numbers would spin via storyboards and the user would touch the numbers to stop them while they were spinning. The team who built this previously only had 2 weeks of Blend experience.
NIMBY - Not In My BackYard. With this app you type in a neighborhood/city/state and it retrieves data from Zillow (lat/long, neighborhood home value index, city home value index, # of foreclosures (neighborhood/city). Future features will include info such as crime statistics, and auto-recognizing which the neighborhood you are in.
I'm loving WinPhone7 - This is a little simple game using the accelerometer where you move the phone different parts of an image would animate either apart or towards each other. The goal is to move the image parts back together and thus solve the puzzle.
Apartment Searcher - This app helps you search apartments. It uses location services to find your current location, and then finds all available apartments within a certain radius. It then displays the available apartments on a Bing maps control. A future feature will be clicking on one of apartments on the map to pull in all the details. Right now you can also ask for directions to that apartment using the Bing Maps routing services.
Power Point Remote Control - This app allows you to remotely control your PowerPoint presentation from your phone. You can queue up and do multiple presentations. Any slide notes are included on the bottom of the phone under the slide. Communicates is via http on the network.
Episode Finder - This app helps you find a specific episode for a TV show. A user can input in any part of the episode title (e.g. Firefly and "James" = Jamestown in Season 1). The app queries IMDB. Wildcard search is enabled by using percent signs. Right now it only searches against the episode title.
Congratulations to the Winners!
- 1st place - I'm loving WinPhone7
- 2nd place - Power Point Remote Control
- 3rd place - Lockdown
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