NYC's best-app contest opens for worldwide voting
Wired: Epicenter
New York City today asked people all over the world to pick the best new mobile and web apps that make the Big Apple "more transparent, accessible and accountable." NYC BigApps contest entrants mash official information from the NYC Data Mine with outside data and services. The hope is to create a cool and useful app that will win the developers some of the $20,000 in taxpayer money offered as prizes.
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