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My Dream App puts out call for developers

In preparation for the upcoming Season 2 of the Mac competition searching for the next killer apps, My Dream App has announced that they’re looking for developers to create the winning entries for their next contest. The team will be doing video interviews with potential developers in conjunction with Pomcast.com at Apple’s forthcoming Worldwide Developers Conference in June.

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Winners announced for the ‘My Dream App’ contest

My Dream App, the Mac competition searching for the next killer app, announced its three winners today. After a close race to the finish, three ideas emerged on top garnering the most support from the public: Atmosphere, a dynamic desktop representing the weather by Cameron Westland; Portal, a file synchronization utility with wormhole visualizations by Farzad Sadjadi; and Cookbook, a full featured recipe and meal management application by Michael Yuan.

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Apple Co-Founder, Microsoft exec judge Mac software contest

My Dream App, a Mac contest in search of the next killer app, features as guest judges Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Xbox and zune creator J. Allard. Over the past month, contestants have had to brave weekly elimination rounds while continually demonstrating to the voting public why their application idea should advance in the contest. My Dream App will announce its three winners when voting ends Tuesday.

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My Dream App Semi-finals now begin

Digg.com co-founder Kevin Rose, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue, and This Week in Tech’s Leo Laporte, are among the guest judges for My Dream App’s fourth round of voting today. In addition, My Dream App, which has given away over $500,000 worth of free Mac software over the past three weeks, will give away Voice Candy to each voter this round. Voice Candy is a voice recorder for Mac OS X featuring filter effects and voice reminders in an easy to use interface.

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3rd round of My Dream App begins with free musicast for voters

My Dream App will give away free copies of the new iTunes library sharing application Musicast for Mac OS X during the contest’s third round of voting today. The remaining My Dream App finalists are competing for the chance to have their ideas developed into full-blown Mac shareware applications. To assist voters this round, high-profile UI designers and icon artists have commented on the finalists’ ideas.

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Second round of My Dream App offers free software

My Dream App today announced they will give away free licenses for popular notebook application Mori when the contest begins its second round of voting today. The 18 remaining My Dream App finalists are competing for the chance to have their ideas developed into full-blown Mac shareware applications. Users vote for their favorite ideas from the field of finalists.

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My Dream App begins unveiling finalists

My Dream App, an online competition in which contestants compete for the chance to have their ideas realized as a Macintosh shareware application, announced its first batch of finalists today. Since launching two weeks ago, My Dream App has drawn over 2,700 idea submissions. “Two dozen finalists will battle for the praise of over 40 high-profile guest judges, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Digg founder Kevin Rose and Delicious Library developer Wil Shipley.

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Mac software dreams become reality with ‘My Dream App’

Software entrepreneur Phill Ryu has announced “My Dream App,” a new competition that invites participants to submit their best ideas for the next “killer app.” Contestants will compete for a chance to have their idea realized as a Macintosh shareware application and earn royalties on software sales, as well as take home one of many Macs and iPods available as prizes for finalists.

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