The BlackBerry Jam Hackathon Winners

Tekkie Tekkie Muna (Look straight into the computer, and titigang maigi ang premyo nila), have you heard of the BlackBerry Jam Hackathon – a 40-hour Blackberry app development competition where participants battle it out for top prizes like a Trip to Bangkok, Thailand for 4, 1 BlackBerry 10 DevAlpha, 4 BlackBerry 7 devices, 4 BlackBerry Playbook tablets plus consultancy from RIM.

What do they have to do? Just hack their way to a potential money-making BlackBerry app idea and present it to a board of judges from the BlackBerry community composed of Dave Patterson, Christian Besler, Cameron Vernest and William Yu.




Congratulations to the winners of Blackberry Jam Hackathon 2012 in Manila:

Here are the list of winners:

Team Rain Creative wins top prize and gets to represent the Philippines in Bangkok, Thailand with their “Realm of Elysium” game.

Realm of Elysium is a multi-player strategy game that takes its inspiration from the classic board game – Battleship.

2nd runner up went to Philstocks.ph by Team Accordion.

Check out the happenings in the Philippine Stocks Exchange as Philstocks.ph XAVI makes it easy for traders on-the-go to stay connected with their investment and manage their trading activity through their BlackBerry 10, anytime, anywhere by providing traders with direct connection and streaming from the Philippine Stock Exchange for the latest feeds, market information, and up-to-date quotes. And best of all this mobile app enables posting of trade orders whenever, wherever!

Philstocks.ph XAVI for BlackBerry 10 brings many of the features of Philstocks.ph proprietary One-Screen Do-It-All trading Console to the traders fingertips — easy access to trader’s portfolio, build-up of watchlist with instant order posting whenever they want to buy or sell. And the good thing is — all mobile transactions are synchronized with their online account. That’s why even when they are away from their computer, with Philstocks.ph XAVI, they can have powerful trading tools in their pocket and at their fingertips.

MobiOke World by Team Pokemon wins 1st Runner up.

Sing that Oppa Gangnam Style with a mobile videoke app. MobiOke World is a phenomenal social-community based application that will embark a paramount effect in the Blackberry World,that is high percentage of apps sales and profit. Such application adopts the FREEMIUM Business Model. Sing a song, share your score and challenge the BBworld.

Get free songs, explore and develop the hidden talent in you. Store your songs up to the sound cloud and collaborate through the app’s free chat service. An application you can never live a day without. You shall stick to it, use it today, like it tomorrow and love it the days after.

Underwater Invasion by Team Logeeks wins Best Student App award.

The team is composed of Richard Anthony Rivera, Arrod Gerald Yabut, Alvin Pascasio  and Marra Paneza.
Enjoy a warm! underwater adventure by playing Underwater Invasion.

Tap as many sea creatures as you can while your oxygen still last, unlock boss level and win different prizes, and achievements.

Bug mania app by Team GLT wins Mentors Choice award. 

Composed of Diel Barnes, Lesley Abe, Vincer Quibral and Gilbert Lavides
Bug Mania is game where players catch bugs for eating.

Be careful of poisonous bugs that may touch and bite.

Winning best presentation award was Team Ripple Wave for their Shenanigan app.

Shenanigan’s is a Watering Hole discovery application.

It’s designed to facilitate the discovery of new places to enjoy a drink, based on location, mood & watering hole preferences

Winning the online People’s Choice award is Team Engineer for the iTB DOTS app.

he team is made up of Marlon Franco Tubelleza, BabyLea Divino, Mayer Sanchez and another guy.

iTB DOTS is a healthcare application that is used to closely monitor, update patient’s medication and give timely medical advice to patients suffering from Tuberculosis.

With this, we will be able to prevent medication lapses of a TB patient taking the medicines, thus preventing the spread of this deadly contagious disease. IT SAVES LIVES.

Here’s the list of all participants apps in the BlackBerry JamHack Manila 2012 App Gallery

http://blackberryjamhack.karaniwan.org/

Gastronomic Delights @ Gerry's Grill

We had a classmate from a recent training program that was going back to the US ending her stay here in the Philippines. Apparently, she was just here to visit relatives and attend training programs because she was simply bored. Her husband is frequently on travel, and she has nothing to do at home. In short she was bored, so she went back to the Philippines, even for just a short time, to unwind and meet new friends.

She already attended several training programs even before we set foot at the DB Wizard Training Center....and to end her probably month long series of training she decided to treat the entire class, including our instructor, at a restaurant nearby.

This is where we tried out the food at Gerry's Grill. It's not my first time to eat at this restaurant, well it's my first time at this particular branch, so I was expecting nothing new. But still, the food was gastronomically delightful, as always.

As they say in Tagalog, "Hindi nakakasawa. Hindi nakakaumay." I was not so hungry because we just had some snacks earlier immediately after class ended, but I think that's the best way to tell if the food is really good: To still have an appetite to eat plenty even though you're full.

Mikey Bustos’ Filipino Social Media Tutorial

Tekkie Tekkie Muna (Put down your smartphones and tablets immediately, may bagong viral video in the city), does anybody here follow Mikey Bustos’ videos on YouTube? You know,….that guy who does humorous tutorial videos, and other wacky stories on video. He’s the guy who would often talk to a different persona of himself portraying another character.


YouTube played a big role in discovering or “rediscovering” Filipinos with a lot of talent and creativity, and eventually catapulting their career into fame and popularity. Such was the case for Charice Pempengco, Arnel Pineda, Bogart The Explorer, Moymoy Palaboy, and the likes who were recognized by many as extremely entertaining and awe-inspiring.


Among the list of great YouTube discoveries is no other than Filipino Canadian multi-talented artist Mikey Bustos. That humorous shaved head guy, and so-called look-alike of RNB singer Kris Lawrence, who uploads “video tutorials” on just about anything with a showcase of Filipino culture like his famous Filipino Accent and Balut Eating tutorials. I guess nothing is stopping Mikey in having the top Filipino viral videos on YouTube.

 

In line with this,  Kris….I mean Mikey,…… launched his new video last night, October 11, 2012 while infront of a few top bloggers who were exclusively invited to the “intimate” launch of his new viral video entitled “Filipino Social Media Tutorial by Mikey Bustos”. It is actually Mikey’s 500th video on YouTube, so in celebration to this amazing feat, he is launching this new video with a big bang….hopefully to become one of the top YouTube featured videos.

Check out the video below: