I submitted one, Fluid Nexus (http://fluidnexus.net), an application for activists or relief workers to communicate independent of a centralized mobile phone network. My ranking is below. One of the reasons for me spending time on the application was because of this desire by Google for applications directed towards humanitarian needs, even thought my target users are going to likely be using lower-end phones from Nokia and others. But it seems like it was an empty desire on the part of OHA, as no humanitarian applications won. Oh well, I guess it means I won't have to explain to my users why I was taking money from a company that censors search results in China...
Effective use: In the 25th to 50th percentile of all submitted applications Polish: In the 25th to 50th percentile of all submitted applications Indispensability: In the top 25% of all submitted applications Originality: In the top 25% of all submitted applications Overall: In the top 25% of all submitted applications nick On May 16, 10:37 pm, gtandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google's initial ADC announcement that among other applications, they > would also be looking for humanitarian applications, or apps helping > economic development, was a bit surprising at first, but also > refreshing. This gave an impression that this business giant is also > looking at "doing good" with the challenge. > > But the following entry that was ranked in the lowest quartile for > every category (originality of this app is below the weather app) > broke all the illusion. > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread... > > At first I questioned why ADC put "humanitarian/economic development" > as a category. As a business entity what would google gain by putting > this as a category? I had answered my own question that Google does > everything different, and possibly it is doing so again. There is no > application from this category (except if we consider the family > safety type of apps) in the first 50. > > I want to find out how many applications submitted to ADC fall in this > category, and how they are ranked. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to android-challenge@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
