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After five grueling rounds, the MDA winners have been announced. Let the development begin!
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Source: digg - MyDreamApp, 3 Winners Announced!
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Spoiler alert - the winners are Cookbook, Portal, and Atmosphere. Pretty disappointing, since my faves were Hijack, Whistler, and Desktop Wars. Of course, I didn't do anything other than vote and occasionally forum-lurk.

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Which, matter of fact, is why Hijack was my top favorite of all. I've gotten a lot of read-only coverage of the web from my news aggregator, but I've never ever been able to get into web-distributed forum groups. Some have RSS feeds, but most don't and I never remember to revisit them. I love the power of the web, and I love distributed apps - but sometimes I miss Usenet.

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Seems like there's a need for Atom-ized comments - that is, a data format for forum aggregators to read and an API for reply submission with spam resistance. Hijack featured forum HTML scraping as a proposed feature - but what if you could get adoption for some simple plugins for Wordpress, phpBB, Vanilla, etal? co.mments seemed promising, but I've just not gotten into it much. I need to do some poking around to see who is already working on this.

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After five grueling rounds, the MDA winners have been announced. Let the development begin!
Source: digg - MyDreamApp, 3 Winners Announced!
\r\n\r\nSpoiler alert - the winners are [Cookbook][cb], [Portal][po], and [Atmosphere][at]. Pretty disappointing, since my faves were [Hijack][hi], [Whistler][wi], and [Desktop Wars][dw]. Of course, I didn't do anything other than vote and occasionally forum-lurk.\r\n\r\nWhich, matter of fact, is why [Hijack][hi] was my top favorite of all. I've gotten a lot of read-only coverage of the web from my news aggregator, but I've never ever been able to get into web-distributed forum groups. Some have RSS feeds, but most don't and I never remember to revisit them. I love the power of the web, and I love distributed apps - but sometimes I miss Usenet.\r\n\r\nSeems like there's a need for Atom-ized comments - that is, a data format for forum aggregators to read and an API for reply submission with spam resistance. Hijack featured forum HTML scraping as a proposed feature - but what if you could get adoption for some simple plugins for [Wordpress][wp], [phpBB][pbb], [Vanilla][va], etal? [co.mments][co] seemed promising, but I've just not gotten into it much. I need to do some poking around to see who is already working on this.\r\n\r\n[co]: http://co.mments.com/\r\n[wp]: http://wordpress.org/\r\n[pbb]: http://www.phpbb.com/\r\n[va]: http://getvanilla.com/\r\n[dw]: http://mydreamapp.com/contestants/view/andrewwilson/\r\n[wi]: http://mydreamapp.com/contestants/view/richardwhitelock/\r\n[hi]: http://mydreamapp.com/contestants/view/kevincapizzi/\r\n[at]: http://mydreamapp.com/contestants/view/cameronwestland/\r\n[po]: http://mydreamapp.com/contestants/view/farzadsadjadi/\r\n[cb]: http://mydreamapp.com/contestants/view/michaelyuan/\n\n
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