Submissions have come in for the BOSS Mashable Challenge and we've rounded them out to the top 10. From now until October 12th, you may vote for your favorite submission. At the end of the voting round, whomever has the most votes will become the Grand Prize winner and 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, Duck Duck Go, iMusicMash, CopyrightSpot, Socialmention, TuneChimp, PopGist, 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.
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: "Duck Duck Go is a new search engine with better results, achieved by combining Yahoo with human powered sources like Wikipedia."
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"