5 Days, 5 Campaigns
These are exciting times here at Quotables HQ…
For a long time users have been telling us how much they would like to get their hands on a Quotables API, to create apps around the wealth of quotable inspiration available on the site. Well, we listened folks, and we’re delighted to say that an API has been created and is almost ready to be released! We’re putting the final touches to the documentation, but in the meantime we decided to get creative and see just what we could come up with ourselves…
Every year, the whole of Mint Digital – Quotables’ parent company – gathers together for an annual WebApp Weekender: five days (the ‘weekender’ was back in the old days) of coding, designing, strategising, feasting and drinking. This year we were holed up in the gorgeous Manor House Hotel on the Dorset coast, and divided into three teams to get stuck into this year’s challenge: to drive engagement to Quotables using our nifty new API. In between huge four-course dinners, sleeping in four-poster beds, and enjoying the sea air, the three teams managed to come up with five amazing campaigns in five days:
Quotagram
A brilliant use of the Instagram API, Quotagram allows you to add quotes (in Helvetica) to Instagram images. Yes, it is lolcats for hipsters.
Quizables
Awesome quotable quizzes against the clock, our favourite quizable so far is the Glee quiz, complete with Gleederboard.
Please Release Me
A fantastic international art project aiming to be the world’s biggest quote distribution movement. Please Release Me is going global and making quotes pop up in all kinds of unexpected places. Think Bookcrossing with quotes.
Quoto
Joy, delivered. Beautiful custom cards, both print & digital, made with love by the team at Quoto. We launched with a 48-hour Valentine Workshop, sending out nearly 700 cards.
Debatables
A debating platform powered by Quotables, designed to raise the tone of online debate, with added game mechanics. You can champion your opinion on Debatables by submitting quotes and supporting those of others, seeing the debate shift in real-time.
Pretty impressive, huh? Team Asimov, who developed the first three (count ‘em!) projects, scooped the winner’s title after the preliminary judging last week, but the overall winners will be decided in four weeks, with various metrics being monitored as the campaigns progress.
What campaign gets your vote? And what would you like to see built using the Quotables API? We’d love to hear your thoughts, leave us a comment below…
