Cliqset Announces Developer Challenge

JACKSONVILLE, FL--(Marketwire - June 1, 2009) - Cliqset today announced the Cliqset Developer Challenge, which will award developers who build the most innovative applications on the Cliqset platform with cash prizes totaling $30,000. The contest will award the best applications in the following categories: Overall, Mobile, Desktop, Web and People's Choice. The Developer Challenge will engage the Open Web, mobile and social developer community, inspire creativity in application design and enhance user experience on the platform.

The Cliqset platform allows developers to quickly and easily integrate as much or as little social functionality into their applications as they'd like, while helping users safely share social information with sites, services and people on the Internet. Cliqset provides a platform comprised of a rich, scalable set of read/write social APIs that developers can use as an alternative to building and supporting their own applications, allowing more focus on building out new social services. Because all Cliqset applications share a common back-end social infrastructure, developers can seamlessly share and exchange information across applications and services, building upon each other's creativity and success.

Developers can enter the challenge starting on June 1, 2009. Entries will be closed at 12:00 a.m. EDT on August 1, 2009 with prizes awarded on August 15, 2009. Contest prizes include: $10,000 for Best In Show, $5,000 for Best Mobile App, $5,000 for Best Desktop App, $5,000 for Best Web App and $5,000 for the People's Choice Award. Awards will be given to the developers whose applications explore the breadth that the platform has to offer and heighten the social experience and interaction for the user. Consistent with Open Web standards, developers retain all intellectual property and rights to their applications. To enter, developers must follow these steps:

    1.  Sign up with Cliqset: http://cliqset.com/register
    2.  Register your application and submit it as part of the Cliqset
        Developer Challenge: http://dev-challenge.cliqset.com/
    3.  Read through the Developer documentation for an overview of how
        to interact with the Cliqset platform:
        http://developer.cliqset.com/
    4.  Find resources such as code libraries and sample applications to
        help you build Cliqset-enabled software:
        http://developer.cliqset.com/main/resources
    5.  And build an exciting application! All entries must be submitted
        on or before 12:00 a.m. EST on August 1, 2009.

The applications will be reviewed by Cliqset and members of the Open Web community who are committed to choosing the best and most innovative applications from all qualifying entries. Additional information about the Cliqset Developer Challenge can be found at: http://dev-challenge.cliqset.com/

In conjunction with the Developer Challenge, Cliqset also launched Beta 2 of its platform today http://cliqset.com/, bringing APIs for location services and more than thirty third-party social networking and services integrations.

About Cliqset

Cliqset is a platform that offers both developers and users new ways to create, organize and share social information on the Web, desktop and mobile environments. With a rich, scalable set of read/write social APIs, Cliqset securely brokers access to social information for developers to quickly and easily integrate as much or as little social functionality into their applications as they'd like, and helps users safely share their social information with sites, services and people on the Internet. Cliqset is privately held and based in Jacksonville, Florida. For more information, please visit: www.cliqset.com.

Contact Information: Media Contact Kasey Fleisher or Jennifer Gazin LaunchSquad cliqset(at)launchsquad(dot)com 415.625.8555