Platform 4

Platform 4 is keen to discover creative talent wherever it is emerging. And we recognise that some of the most inspiring online work is coming from the bedrooms of passionate hobbyist coders - not always the big name agencies and software giants.To recognise this trend we’re offering £1500 to the most creative mash-up of Channel 4’s Film4 RSS feeds. Two runners up will also get £250. You can find a list of these RSS feeds on the RSS Central page, and also listed below. We’ll create a gallery of all the mash-ups received that meet the judging criteria. The full guidelines of the competition, including how the projects will be judged and the timeframes for getting your entry into Platform 4, are outlined here.

Since we’re not going to be hosting these mash-ups, you’re free to develop them in whatever language you’re most familiar with, and deliver them as bite-size widgets or full-blown apps. If you’d like to pull in other Channel4 content into your app, refer to our RSS Central Page for some of our more popular content feeds. For more on what makes a good mash-up, and a list of hundreds of open APIs with which to mash-up the Film4 data, visit www.programmableweb.com.

As an example of the kind of application that can be created using the film site’s content, check out the Movie Tag Facebook application.

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