The voting period for the BOSS Mashable Challenge ends Sunday, October 12th at 11:59 pm PT. So far, we have received over 2,500 votes. On Tuesday, October 14th, Mashable and Yahoo will verify the voting data and confirm the winners. The Grand Prize winner will receive $2,000 and an exclusive article on Mashable about their mashup. The runner up will receive $1,000 and Yahoo! and Mashable’s Kudos. The top 10 include: PlayerSearch, Tall Street, Surf Canyon, iMusicMash, CopyrightSpot, Socialmention, TuneChimp, PopGist, and Kallout. You can read the full descriptions at the submissions showcase page or read the brief descriptions below. Good luck!
Voting has ended. The votes will be analyzed and confirmed. The Grand Prize Winner and the Runner-Up will be announced on Mashable on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008.
Voting is also secured by PollDaddy’s IP & Cookie security in a strong effort to thwart any attempts at spamming the system. Duck Duck Go has been removed due to an obvious attempt at gaming the system.
Brief description from developer: "Player Search is a vertical search engine for sports that searches local and national news, video, photos, stats and more for content targeted to individual athletes."
Brief description from developer: "Tall Street is a new search engine concept where you get to rank the results"
Brief description from developer: "Using BOSS, Surf Canyon accelerates the search experience on Yahoo!, enabling you to find relevant information buried in the results."
Brief description from developer: "iMusicMash is an iPhone social web application, which brings life to your music experience."
Brief description from developer: "CopyrightSpot allows you to discover all the spots where your licensed and unlicensed original content lives on the web."
Brief description from developer: "Social Mention allows you to track conversations about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web's social media landscape."
Brief description from developer: "TuneChimp is the easiest way to discover the best music from any artist!"
Brief description from developer: "PopGist develops the novel search ranking algorithm based on auto discovered and topic focused expert pages, and the innovative result presentation interface with discussion threads"