AppCircus is focusing on Italy with upcoming events over the next few weeks. Our first stop is in Naples on November 15th, where AppCircus will offer developers a stage to pitch in front of an international jury, formed by industry experts, and an opportunity to be nominated for the Mobile Premier Awards 2013, to be held in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress.
The deadline to submit your apps for AppCircus Naples is November 5th (midnight CET). Submitting your app is simple and free, you just need to join appcircus.com and click on 'Submit your app' on top of this page.
For this great occasion, AppsFuel will support this new edition of AppCircus in Italy with a special workshop for developers. Don't miss it! AppsFuel is the first official sponsor of the AppCircus HTML5 App Challenge
About AppsFuel
AppsFuel is a new marketplace - device and OS independent -featuring exclusively top quality HTML5 Apps.
With AppsFuel, users find it easy to browse categories, read reviews, locate their favorite apps and share them on social media, knowing all their friends can use them, because AppsFuel apps work on any smartphone.
For developers, AppsFuel is an open and easy platform to use for distribution of mobile web applications and monetization via uniquely featured carrier billing.
By joining AppsFuel developers will enjoy an unprecedented direct connection to their customers providing them always the latest version, as well as the flexible billing options of carrier billing for payment, soon in more than 25 countries. What’s more, the "write once, deploy everywhere" nature of the platform will massively reduce the cost of creating, versioning and maintaining applications. And because AppsFuel springs off of Buongiorno’s 130 direct carrier billing relationships, monetization is our main differentiating benefit.
About Frontiers of Interaction
Frontiers of Interaction, the local organizer of AppCircus in Milan, was founded in 2005 to explore topics and ideas in the field of interaction design. It has become, in very short time, the leading Innovation conference in Italy. Frontiers of Interaction is a hybrid show that attracts inspiring international speakers and Italian talents, creating a bridge between digital cultural “hot spots” around the world. The unusual format creates an immersive experience featuring music, interactive and artistic installations, demo sites and keynotes, and makes it an ideal venue for thinkers and doers, innovators and academics, creatives, startuppers, investors, early adopters and long-term geeks.
5.00 pm - Registration
5.30 pm - Welcome
5.45 pm - AppCircus showcase
6.30 pm - Break
6.40 pm - Workshop: Building Mobile Web Apps with HTML5 & Javascript
7.40 pm - Networking and winner announcement
8.00 pm - End
Building Mobile Web Apps with HTML5 & Javascript.
Thanks to HTML5 technologies, mobile web apps represent one of the most exciting mobile business opportunities for the near future and beyond. Are you ready to make the most of your web development skills, Javascript, CSS3 to create products that are specifically designed and optimised for today's smartphones and tablets? The AppsFuel team will guide you in the creation of your first web app for mobile devices without using any restrictive native or hybrid technologies and without frameworks. Just pure Javascript and HTML5.
What you will learn:
- What are the most useful and supported features of HTML5 for mobile devices
- How to set up your apps to be compatible with iPhone, Android and other devices that support HTML5
- How to realise an effect of "scrolling panels" in your webapp
- How to create a grafic interface using only CSS3
What you will need:
- A mobile device compatible with HTML5
- Basic knowledge of HTML and Javascript
- Latest version of Firefox, Chrome or Safari installed on your computer
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- Your favorite text editor
AppCircus Naples will take place at:
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II - Facoltà di Ingegneria Aula "Scipione Bobbio" P.le Tecchio 1 80125 Napoli
How to participate:
1. become a member of appcircus.com (fill in the form on the homepage)
2. add your app to your profile (see this how-to)
3. submit your app to the event (see this how-to)
Rules for Participation:
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Submissions and presentations to AppCircus are FREE and open to any developer, startup or company
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AppCircus is open to apps running on any platform
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Applicants must send one representative to present the app live on stage.
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The apps selected will have three minutes to pitch on stage.
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Apps are submitted through the AppCircus platform at appcircus.com.
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Registration and membership for AppCircus are FREE!
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appcircus.com members need to add the app to their profile before applying for an AppCircus.
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Candidates can submit more than one app.
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Each app can only be presented in one AppCircus, unless if it receives a Runner up Waiver.
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One app in each AppCircus will be nominated for the pool of apps from which the 20 finalists for the Mobile Premier Awards 2012 will be selected.
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The app with the most votes, after the nomination winner, will receive a “Runner up Waiver”, which allows the app to reapply for selection for another AppCircus.
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The pitches must be done in English
