Jules March from Sky News is using Facebook to give away up to £10k (or US$20k) of Murdoch loot – more evidence that the Murdoch empire is abandoning MySpace. Only kidding. Here’s how:

Calling all dev talent out there – get involved in the evolution of Sky News Online and compete for a share of £10,000 prize money.

We give you the feeds, you build the apps.

The brains with the best ideas will be invited down to the Sky News studios for Judgement Day – you’ll get to tour of the studios, meet the talent, and sell your idea to the Dragon’s Den at Sky News.

Entries in by Friday 30th November to newsonline@bskyb.com [Put ‘DeveloperCompetition’ in the subject field]

Some suggested directions:

Client side apps overview:
– flash based apps (carousels, daylife ingest of feeds etc..)
– gadgets
– widgets
– aggregators and displays of content
– picture galleries
– mapping
– second life (virtual worlds) what else can we do in this space?
– semantic web how to apply this to content

Judgment Day is Thursday 20st December.

Terms and conditions.

FEEDS:

Bespoke XML for all content on the homepage
http://news.sky.com/skynews/feeds/skycom
Use the above feed to make a gadget/widget or better our homepage with a new application!

RSS

Homepage Stories
http://news.sky.com/skynews/rss/article/0,,30000-1-100,00.xml
UK Homepage Stories
http://news.sky.com/skynews/rss/article/0,,30100-1-100,00.xml
World Homepage Stories
http://news.sky.com/skynews/rss/article/0,,30200-1-100,00.xml
Business Homepage Stories
http://news.sky.com/skynews/rss/article/0,,30400-1-100,00.xml
Strange But True Stories
http://news.sky.com/skynews/rss/article/0,,91059-1-100,00.xml

By adding “-v1” to any of the above feeds you can get the breaking news flag to cater for our breaking news
e.g.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/rss/article/0,,91059-1-100-v1,00.xml

Video Carousel XML feeds which that build the Video Page (make an improved Video homepage!)

Latest Headline Tab
http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/video/0,,31200-802,00.xml
Features
http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/video/0,,31200-803,00.xml
Most Watched
http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/video/0,,31200-807,00.xml
Strange But True
http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/video/0,,31200-809,00.xml
Showbiz
http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/video/0,,31200-810,00.xml

Picture Gallery Feeds:

Latest News
http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/pictures/0,,70141-804,00.xml
World In View
http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/pictures/0,,70141-805,00.xml
Strange News
http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/pictures/0,,70141-808,00.xml
Feed of individual Picture Galleries and their list of images
http://news.sky.com/skynews/pic_gall_syndication