Do you love genealogy? Are you skilled at creating apps? Then this might be the perfect contest for you to enter! MyHeritage.com wants you to make the best family-oriented app. The winner will receive $10,000.
MyHeritage is a genealogy website that is growing in popularity. It describes itself as a “family based social network”. There are 58 million members on MyHeritage, and more than 792 million online profiles. Members can create their own family tree on this website, can upload photos, and can access the site in one of 38 different languages.
One of the unique things about MyHeritage is something called “Smart Matches”. The system automatically scans through the family trees that members have put into it, in order to find potential matches.
When it finds a listing for what appears to be the same person in two different family trees, it contacts both of the members who created those trees, and lets them know about it. It is entirely possible that people could discover relatives that they never knew they had, as a result of the Smart Matches system.
Recently, MyHeritage released its Family Graph API. They want developers to use it to build an app for MyHeritage. Basically, they want people to come up with unique, creative, useful, brilliant apps that can be connected with the MyHeritage website.
The competition for Best Family App starts on September 1, 2011. The winner will get $10,000, which is a very nice prize to win! Who couldn’t use $10,000?
If you are a genealogist who also enjoys creating apps, this is the perfect contest for you to enter. Or, if you are a genealogist who uses MyHeritage, and have been wishing for something specific that the website currently doesn’t offer, then now is your chance to learn how to make an app for that!
What kind of genealogy app would make you happy? Chances are, other genealogists will also want an app that has that particular function. So, what will your app do? You might want to make an app that compiles family photos into a super organized, and easy to use, system. Or, perhaps you really enjoy planning family reunions, and would love to have an app that helps you to keep track of all the little details involved in the planning process.
Maybe you want an app that connects your family members directly to the cafepress or Etsy store that sells t-shirts, coffee mugs, hats, and other items that display the name of your family on them. It is entirely up to you!
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