We are happy to announce the winners of the Doodle API Contest today! Doodlendar, an application that integrates Doodle’s scheduling system with Google Calendar, developed by two students at the ETH Zurich, won first prize. Second and third prizes went to Manymoon (USA) and DoodleZack (Austria). Winners were chosen by a jury of web pros out of eight approved applications from six different countries.
“It’s great to see that working on an own project gets such appreciation,” said the winners Michael Schaufelberger (white shirt) and Stephan Merkli (blue shirt) yesterday at the “award ceremony”. Instead of the original prize, a trip to Zurich, they decided to take the cash prize: “Cash is easier to divide by the two of us… (Is it really? – see photo) … and we aren’t too worried about finding a way to spend it.”
Doodle CEO Michael Naef (black shirt) presents our API competition winners with first prize
With Doodlendar (introduction) one can use Doodle to schedule events in Google Calendar. Doodle’s meeting time options are added as tentative events in Google Calendar. As soon as a poll is closed and a definite time slot is chosen – this will be saved as the only appointment in the calendar. “Doodlendar is a useful and smooth marriage of Doodle and the widely-used calendar app. I love the side-by-side calendar to poll view,” jury member Gina Trapani (Founding Editor of Smarterware and Lifehacker) said about the winning application.
The runner-up, social productivity application Manymoon with ManyDoodle, commented: “We are excited to be using Doodle’s API to add the ability to schedule events within Manymoon. Our customers are already using our Doodle integration to schedule business events every day,” said co-founder Amit Kulkarni.
A big “Thank you!” to all participants and special thanks to the jury and our sponsors!
May 28, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Wow.. exactly the application I was looking for…
The first few experiments look promising, however there are a few strange problems:
1) None of my already existing polls (owned nor participated) show up.
2) If I create a new pol from within the Doodlendar, they do…
3) …but when I click on them to participate, I get the following error:
Oops, an error happened:
[err:XPTY0004] Seq with 2 or more items cannot be promoted to a
QUANT_QUESTION or QUANT_ONE type.:
4) same error when I try the “Poll ID / URL” field on to and hit the “Get Poll” button.
Regards,
Stef
May 29, 2009 at 1:30 pm
The post contains a bunch of code like
June 1, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Speaking of API, will doodle provide a Google wave interaction ?
January 10, 2010 at 2:42 am
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