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The AOL/TopCoder® Sensations Developer Challenge culminated at the 2009 TopCoder Open (TCO) which took place June 1 – June 4, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV. Accessible Walking Directions was selected as the winning accessibility application from several that were developed by competition participants.

MapQuest introduced MapQuest 4 Mobile for the iPhone.

MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com) announced that Barnes & Noble, Inc. (http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com), the world’s largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, has selected the MapQuest Platform: Enterprise Edition to power its Stores & Events locator. The company chose MapQuest for the platform’s ease of use, flexibility and scalability.

Users chose Bebo as one of the most popular Web 2.0 apps in the Webware 100 Awards, sponsored by CNET blog Webware.com. Nearly 630,000 votes were cast by the public to select the best of 300 finalists in 10 categories.

If you're one of those folks who likes to use toolbars in your browser (and who isn't) then there are several new ones available.

MapQuest released a new toolbar with some really handy features like the "Find Me" feature. You can plot your location using WiFi and the Skyhook Wireless' "Loki" plug-in. You can also get local traffic, gas prices, and directions of course. Check it out today!

The SHOUTcast team has implemented a flash based media player that allows you to listen to your favorite SHOUTcast radio stations through a mini pop-up player.

What's cool is that you can also take your SHOUTcast MP3 stations with you and listen to them in your media player of choice - Winamp, iTunes, or Windows Media Player.

To get started check out the SHOUTcast blog at http://blog.shoutcast.com/.

A new version of the AXS library has been released on dev.aol.com!

The AXS Library is a small Java library that contains tools and methods to help make it easier for web developers to create sites that are accessible to as many users as possible. It helps with things like determining if a user's browser is in high contrast mode or setting up key combinations.

SHOUTcast recently released a free iPhone app that allows you to play high quality streams of music on your iPod Touch or iPhone. It comes complete with a pretty cool shake 'n shuffle feature!

On February 20th, Bebo announced the winner of it's B.E.S.T Developer Challenge that was held at the end of 2008.

The awards ceremony and developer meet up was held on February 18th and the winners were announced there.

From over 2,000 app submissions, 18 were chosen as finalists and finally a winner was picked.

Social Actions is currently running a developer challenge geared towards building apps and tools designed to help people find and share activism opportunities on websites, blogs, and social networks.

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