We’re really delighted to say that Android users chose PlinkArt as the best reference app in the Android Developer Challenge. At about 10pm last night, we got the email:
Congratulations! Your application, Plink Art, was chosen by users and judges as the #1 winner in the Education/Reference category. You’ve won $100,000!
We’re really happy that users liked the app. We’ve already had loads of suggestions of new things people would like to see in PlinkArt, and the Android prize means that we can keep working to make cool new features.
Now that the ADC2 is over, we’ve released PlinkArt on the main Android Market. It’s completely free, and you can get it just by searching in the Market app, or by scaning the 2D barcode in the sidebar of this blog. So give it a try, and tell us what you think!
–The PlinkArt Team
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We just got an email saying that PlinkArt has been selected for the finals of the Android Developer Challenge. Huzzah! We were left wondering about our fate for a while because Gmail put the “Congratulations, your application was selected” email in the spam folder. Understandable because of all the fake competition spam, but a little scary. I wonder how many job offers and winning lottery tickets might be lying in people’s spam folders?
Anyhow, now for a bit of frantic server scaling to make sure we can handle the load from the finals 
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Tagged: adc2
Android Developer Challenge apps went live this morning. The PlinkArt servers are humming a little louder. Unfortunately app downloads are random and there is no way to leave feedback for developers within the judging app – but if you are lucky enough to get PlinkArt and would like to leave a comment for the PlinkArt team, just post something below.
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When we demonstrate PlinkArt to friends, there isn’t always a famous painting nearby to take a picture of. So we thought we’d put together a few sample images that you can use to test the app.
Without a painting handy, so far everyone we’ve shown the app to has taken a photo of themselves! PlinkArt only knows about famous paintings, so it returns the most similar one it can find. Given that European painters spent hundreds of years painting religious figures, normally this is a saint – except in the case of one poor fellow who apparently bears a close resemblance to a Campbell’s Soup Can. (Really, for these searches the system knows that it hasn’t found a good match, so we could return a “nothing found” page. But people were having so much fun figuring out what famous portrait they looked like that we decided to leave it in!)
So far, the first thing most people do with PlinkArt is to take a picture of have done is to take
Posted in: Using Plink.
Welcome to the PlinkArt blog. This is the place to look for all the latest news about PlinkArt. Right now we are waiting for Google to release the judging application for the Android Developer Challenge so that people can start playing with the app!
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