What is the best you can hope for as a developer of Android Applications? Â Getting your app features on the Android Market? Having you app get picked up by a network and distributed on a mobile device? Â nah… How about a Gettie Award and some cash to go with it!
For the first time ever GetJar is organizing the 2010 Gettie Awards. The Getties are the industry’s first cross platform mobile app awards for developers. During one incredible evening top apps developers will be selected to win a new and prestigious industry award:
• The Gettie Award for best Android App
• The Gettie Award for best Blackberry App
• The Gettie Award for best J2ME App
• The Gettie Award for best iPhone App
• The Gettie Award for best Symbian App
• The Gettie Award for best Windows Mobile App
Finally, there will be a grand prize for the best overall app or unique: Gettie Award
To qualify you will have to have developed and launched your mobile app on any one of these platforms and have it available for download over the past 12 months. Submissions are global so you can submit your app whether you’re from the Bay Area, London, Stockholm, Berlin or Mumbai! Finalists will have their apps judged by industry heavyweights including:
• Rich Wong – Accel Partners
• Jessica Dolcourt – Editor and app reviewer at CNET
• Matt Marshall – Editor / CEO at Venturebeat
• Mike Rowelh – Mobile Monday / Chomp
• Kevin Thau – Twitter
So now is your chance to be among the greatest and get the praise you deserve from colleagues, press, fans and industry folks.
The Getties takes place on July 12th at Venturebeat’s annual Mobilebeat Conference (don’t forget to check that out too and get tickets!).
Submissions close on June 25th and you can submit your app at:Â http://gettieawards.com
Also note that to win The Gettie Award there is an element of popular vote so make sure to get the word out to your fans for them to nominate you as well. Nominees should go tohttp://gettieawards.com/nominate.php
And have their chance to win a super cool iPad 3G if they are the first to nominate an app.
For those of you living in the Bay Area and interested in attending the dinner and awards ceremony please make sure to get your tickets:Â http://www.eventbrite.com/event/672327951
So what are you waiting for, head over to the Gettie Wards site and find out everything you need to know.
