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One thing we’ve encouraged from the start is continual, active involvement from contestants throughout the contest through blogging. This aspect of the contest has really blown past my expectations, and the result is over 225 blog posts so far from contestants!
For those of you who haven’t had time to look through all the content generated by the community, here’s some of the more interesting things going on in the blogs and forums.
Farzad has posted some mockup ideas for a Portal widget, viewable here.
Richard has been working hard on a website for Whistler, breaking down what his idea is about, and featuring some comments from voters and judges. Is it too early to create websites for applications that, well, don’t exist yet? Perhaps, but the Whistler website certainly does a great job of introducing people to the idea.
Jeff’s also been working on visualizing his ideas for iGTD, focusing on keeping things simple. You can see his thoughts in this blog post.
After impressing many with his explanation on how Atmosphere might work, Cameron is back with a mockup of potential preferences. Sure, it’s not nearly as flashy as seeing visualizations of the dynamic desktop “in action”, but the preferences do a good job of summarizing what you might actually be fiddling with as a user. If Atmosphere makes it. ;)
Perhaps inspired by Kevin’s full screen Hijack mockup video, Michael has posted mockups of how Cookbook’s full screen feature might work in this blog post. This is one of the more exciting features of Cookbook… it’d be fun to press play on my remote while over a step and have Leopard’s voiceover read instructions to me while my hands are busy cooking! (Less fun would be eating the results of said cooking.)
And meanwhile, with contestants going crazy with mockups, forum member illi raises the question of how important mockups really should be, in this rather heated forum discussion thread.
There’s tons of interesting stuff out there, so be sure to explore the site!
