And the Winners Are…

The inaugural Mobile Apps showdown has come to a close, but not without selecting two fantastic mobile applications as winners in the competition.

Drum roll, please….

And the winners are - Clixtr won in the live competition, while Gwabbit took home the online prize.

Clixtr, a mobile app that turns smartphones into smartcameras by leveraging location-based technologies and the rapidly improving quality of camera phones, was selected as the winner of the Mobile Apps Showdown live CES audience applause-o-meter. Clixtr users create events, upload mobile photos, and, for the first time ever, create real-time event photo streams with the users around them. At the standing-room-only competition, each of the finalists gave a four-minute demonstration of their products to the live audience, who then voted for the app they felt was the best, and Clixtr won the day with the most applause from the audience.

And that brings us to our second winner, Gwabbit. Gwabbit is the only provider of automatic email contact management (ECM) solutions for the contact cloud that automatically searches and identifies contacts embedded in emails and adds or updates that information to your information in a single click. When online voting officially ended at 12:00 a.m. EST on January 9th, Gwabbit, LLC was selected as the other winner of the Mobile Apps Showdown. This was an incredibly tight vote, so we would like to give a shout-out to DateCheck, which was edged out by Gwabbit by a slim margin of several hundred votes.

One note about the voting: Voting ended last night at 12 a.m. precisely. We kept the polls open so people could still visit the voting page, but the winner was determined buy the number of votes at midnight. See below for the results captured at midnight last night.

Congratulations to both of the winners, and to all of the other Mobile Apps Showdown competitors.