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2.0 awards
Who can take part in the contest?
Any person or company from a European country (widely considered, as in the Eurovision song contest) having developed a web 2.0/social media site, either as a startup company or just as a personal project. Anonymous projects will not be accepted, nor projects without a valid URL. Individuals and companies can submit as many projects as they wish.
What do you consider a web 2.0/social media site?
In order to be admitted to the contest, a web must have 50% or more of its traffic coming out of at least two of the following elements/tools:
- A blog: a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order by one or more authors.
- A wiki: a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration.
- Services using tags: a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.
- Mashup based on Google / Yahoo / Live.com maps: a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.
- Pages developed with Ajax: a web development technique for creating interactive web applications.
- Feeds: a data format used for serving users frequently updated content. As for example, RSS or Atom.
- Sites where users can establish relationships among them and invite other users. This is commonly known as social networks.
This will be reviewed by the advisory board, which has the right to exclude any project without further explanation.
How do I submit my site?
Just click here and fill in the form.
How do you select the best web 2.0 projects?
All submitted projects are reviewed by the advisory board and later voted on Facebook by all users in the Startup 2.0 group until April, 14th. Only Facebook users having installed the Startup 2.0 widget will be able to vote.
The 5 most voted projects in Facebook and the 5 projects initially selected by the advisory board will be exposed in an event which will be celebrated in Bilbao on April, 24th.
There will be three winners that will be selected by the internacional Jury.
How does the jury work?
The jury is formed by 10 VCs and social media experts from Spain, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Israel, Belgium, Greece and Slovenia. Their decisions are taken by majority of votes and based on:
- Business sense and growth expectations
- Innovation
- Degree of competition in their market
- Quality of the presentation and, in its case, the video sent to the contest
- Team
If a jury member is not able to assist to the events, a member of the advisory board will take his place and follow his instructions.
I don't know how to present my project. Will you help me?
Of course. If you need any assistance to present your project to the audience, we will give you all instructions and even some lessons the day before.
What can I win?
Besides the large number of websites that will mention your site if you are the winner, you will apply for the following prizes:
- An ad space in Techcrunch
- A place in a SeedCamp campus
- A free pass to Le Web 09 in Paris
If I am selected for the final, how much time will I have to introduce my project's draft?
You will have 5 minutes. Like the rest of the finalists..
Can I attend the event as a guest?
The Startup 2.0 final is part of nonick. If you want to come, you can buy one of the tickets.
