Win up to $25000 in cash prizes in the ebay and paypal developper challenge

If you’re an aspiring developer and have an idea for an ecommerce widget or application that you feel will change the face of distributed commerce be using eBay and PayPal APIs this is your chance to turn a good concept into reality and possibly cash. More importantly, if your idea takes flight you could potentially be looking at the start of a viable business opportunity.
How Does This Work?
1.    Sign up for an eBay and/or PayPal developer account.
2.    Register for the contest and submit your concepts here by the 23rd of August.
3.    10 concepts will be selected by a panel of judges and each of the submitting teams will receive 2 hours of eBay development support.
4.    Developers will have 4 weeks to create working proof of concepts and submit their final entries by the 20th of September
5.    Judging will begin on the 23rd of September
6.    Winners will be announced on the 26th of September.
*Open to legal residents of Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines & Thailand only. All concepts and code generated as a result of this competition will remain the intellectual property of the submitting party

Submission Guidelines
1. Applications are to use the following technologies, platforms & languages:JavaScript (JavaScript, JSON, AJAX)

Flash (ActionScript, Flex)

PHP (PHP, Perl, Python)

Windows (.NET, C#, ASP, VB)

Java (Java, JSP)

2. Final submissions need to be available for download via a url and need to include the following:

Article explaining the code not exceeding 1000 words (Must describe what your application does, how it is used, and provide a brief (or not so brief) overview of how you implemented the application)

3 small screenshots (GIF/JPEG/PNG only, maximum width 600 pixels)

ZIP file containing the full source files

Instructions on how to access/deploy the application

For Web based applications or an Internet web site:

Submit the URL of their application through email

For desktop applications/clients:
Send by email (the total size of the zip files in attachment does not exceed 10 MB)
Provides http address from which the application could be downloaded,
Send by mail (DVD)

What is the judging criteria?
All submitted final entries will be reviewed by the judging committee based on the following criteria:

30% - Innovation using eBay and/or PayPal Web Services – the uniqueness of the idea and how it integrates with the eBay and/or PayPal Web Services unified schema

30% - Value as determined by the ability of the application to solve existing problems, add new features which can be used by the community, or even become a future eBay and/or PayPal project

20% - Concept implementation: Quality (look and feel, stability) of submitted implementation vs. the project proposal.

20% - Code quality – documentation, extensibility, maintainability, reliability, scalability, etc

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