ItzUpp Accepted - Google Developer Challenge 2012

ItzUpp accepted into the Google Places API Developer Challenge 2012

[Google-Worldwide-News] Last month, December 2012, ItzUpp was accepted as a contestant into the Google Places API Developer Challenge. Seems, it is one of the two selected entries from India! And Google has accepted and listed Top 52 Apps on their website. ItzUpp is one of them!!

The Itzupp details video is ==> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgTc8xp6F_I&feature=youtu.be
The blog post describing ItzUpp is ==> See ItzUpping details
Go HERE to vote ==> https://developers.google.com/places/challenge/gallery

The timeline for the contest is:
August 15, 2012: Submissions Begin
November 30, 2012: Deadline for Application Submission
December 12 – December 31, 2012: Public Voting
December 12 – January 11, 2013: Voting by Judges
January 30, 2013: Winners Announced
2013: Live Streaming of Awards Presentation Hangout with a recap at the 2013 I/O Conference

The prizes are:
Showcase your Google Places API application at our annual Google I/O conference in San Francisco. There will be two categories of awards – Judge’s Choice and People’s Choice awards:
Judge’s Choice Award
Three (3) application entries will receive an immersive experience at Google I/O 2013, including:
2 Google I/O tickets per winning team
$3500 travel stipend
A chance to showcase their app at Google I/O 2013
Dinner with the Google Maps and Places API team
Three runners up will enjoy:
One (1) Google Nexus 7 16gb Tablet
A 15-minute hang out with a Google Executive
People’s Choice Award
One entry will be chosen by the voting public and will receive:
2 Google I/O tickets per team
$3500 travel stipend
A chance to showcase their app at Google I/O 2013
Dinner with the Google Maps and Places API team

Public Voting has now closed.


The Tagline of Itzupp is - Before you visit. The bold letters on the website says "Know The Places Around Before You Actually Visit."

One user has reported the following--
"I always use www.itzupp.com  to find about any place. I can search any restaurant, shopping complex, shops, pubs and discs. I can read reviews too and also see adjacent areas. I have used this in my recent travel to London, UK and Goa, India.  http://www.itzupp.com
Awesome feedbacks and reviews. Very objective details.
AND BEST PART. I SEARCHED "halal meat in london" to get a long list of restaurants serving halal meat. http://www.itzupp.com This is just amazing service!!
I just love itzupping!!""



This is world's first service to find and know the places around beforehand. Find, explore, and review the places around you before you actually visit it. This is called ItzUpping!!
Try http://www.itzupp.com

ItzUpp! Know the places before you actually visit.

What is ItzUpping really all about?

ItzUpp is presumably, the World's First Online Canvass, Review, and Comment Portal for Shoppers, Travellers, Clubbers, Diners, Drinkers, and Strollers, all around the World! As the tagline of the website says, 'Canvass before you visit', you can actually Canvass i.e Examine and Survey freely and Search Places Around Before You Actually Visit it. And as the world shall see it, ItzUpp will be the world's largest service to find and canvass places around you beforehand. With the growing number of visitors, their reviews, the photographs shared, the what's up news, and the increasing number of businesses, one will be easily able to search for places, read reviews, and look what is up there! This is called ItzUpping !!

Try: http://www.itzupp.com/

ItzUpp comes to you as an easy and comprehensive business directory related to what you are searching. Each of the places returned will have their own Profile pages. You can download the details for future reference. The profile of each location is complete with ratings and reviews, maps, events, and more. It uses the power of Google Places API, Flickr photos, and Facebook social networking plugins. With strategic and core technology implementation using PHP, Apache, SQL, XML, Javascript, JQuery, Fbxml, and several APIs, we bring you the best online experience in searching and canvassing into a place before actually visiting it. With strong integration with the power of Google, you can also see Maps, photos, timings, events, etc from the Google Plus Profile of the location.  Find a club, a good florist, the best restaurant around , and even mobile repair!


And for searches resulting into places in United Kingdom, you can find local eating joints with the ratings and reviews by Government of UK. So, whether you are going to any restaurants, or visiting any business, park, shops, check for the choices of healthy foot outlets in the nearby area. The link on the ItzUpp Place profile that says - 'Local Food Reviews by UK Government' is fetched from Website: http://ratings.food.gov.uk. The UK food hygiene rating data API is under Open-Data scheme of UK, and is valid only for United Kingdom. This Project in no way guarantees the accuracy and effectiveness of data, results, and information coming from different organizations. Neither do we modify or alter any result or ranking that is coming.  But you will get First 30 results from that website. So, it helps you abide by Healthy and Hyginic Eating in United Kingdom!! 

Disclaimer: This Project is still in Experimental stage. The Application uses Google Places API, Flickr photo sharing, and Facebook Social plugins features. The author and this website is in no way connected to Google, Flickr, or Facebook. The results and images shown are the output from respective APIs and photos may have copyrights associated with them. Any dispute should be propogated to the respective service providers.

*The Data used in 'Local Food Reviews by UK Government' is fetched from Website: http://ratings.food.gov.uk. The UK food hygiene rating data API is under Open-Data scheme of UK, and is valid only for United Kingdom. This Project in no way guarantees the accuracy and effectiveness of data, results, and information coming from different organizations. Neither do we modify or alter any result or ranking that is coming. 

So, Happy Dining, Happy Boozing, Happy Clubbing.Happy ItzUpping!!!

[I find it a great website, and have personally been trying this for quite sometime now. So, I suggest my readers to make use of this great utility :)]