The contest is here!

Being the good neighbourly tech startups that we are, one day in midtown Manhattan we here from Peek and Xtify thought "we should talk."

Well lo and behold we found out that same week that we'd both be presenting at the famed New York Tech Meetup.

Given the combination of Xtify's APIs which make it easy to develop location-based apps... plus the coolness of the Peek... we thought that it was perfect timing to put together this little competition!

So here it is. We want people to build an interesting web-based application that uses location data and email. Whoever builds the coolest application that best and most interestingly integrates both location information from Xtify and email on the Peek will win fame and fortune - as judged by our celebrity panel:

• Nate Westheimer the host of the New York Tech Meetup
• Joshua Topolsky editor of Engadget
• Amol Sarva the Chief Peekster
• and Andrew Weinreich the CEO of Xtify

The Prize

Imagine the opportunity to develop something, present it in front of all of your peers, have thousands of people hear about it, plus win money and cool prizes.

Grand Prize

• Present the winning app at the New York Tech Meetup in front of many of your peers
• You will get posted about on www.engadget.com
• If its really good you will get to pitch it to our VCs
• $2500 cold hard cash
• A Peek for life
• Travel & accomodation to New York

For second place you'll win a Peek + 1 year of service.

Exact details can be found in the detailed terms & conditions and rules of the competition here

The Rules In A Nutshell

• The contest officially opens Feb 18th, 2009.
• Registration is open until March 31st.
• The contest closes on April 30th (the application must be submitted by then).
• We will make announcements the second week of May.
• Anybody can join who does not work for Xtify or Peek or is a judge of this competition.

Read here for complete rules and terms and conditions.

How To Get Started?

• In order to register you have to join the contest forums
• Create a thread in there and tell us what you are building
• You will probably need a Peek. You can buy one here
• Make sure you have the latest software, 1.08 on your Peek. See geekypeek.com for details.
• Download the xtify APIs and documentation here
• Find somewhere to run your app (amazon.com/aws, 1and1, dreamhost, etc).