"I'm in the dark here!"
Al Pacino as the blind army man in the movie "Scent of a woman"
How many people can understand that emotion, I wonder.

kurosh

On May 17, 7:41 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:37 PM, gtandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Google's initial ADC announcement that among other applications, they
> > would also be looking for humanitarian applications, or apps helping
> > economic development, was a bit surprising at first, but also
> > refreshing. This gave an impression that this business giant is also
> > looking at "doing good" with the challenge.
>
> > But the following entry that was ranked in the lowest quartile for
> > every category (originality of this app is below the weather app)
> > broke all the illusion.
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread...
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> > At first I questioned why ADC put "humanitarian/economic development"
> > as a category. As a business entity what would google gain by putting
> > this as a category? I had answered my own question that Google does
> > everything different, and possibly it is doing so again. There is no
> > application from this category (except if we consider the family
> > safety type of apps) in the first 50.
>
> This is really just another example of how misleading this contest was:
> 1) 1 Open-Source Project (How open is Android?)
> 2)  No Games (they mentioned this one as well)
> 3)  No Humanitarian apps
>
> Shane
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> > I want to find out how many applications submitted to ADC fall in this
> > category, and how they are ranked.- Hide quoted text -
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