The winner of Asia’s Top 50 Apps has been announced the Techventure last week. The winners are announced at the event on the second day, 14 October 2011. However, it would be grateful to know the main winner of this event. e27.sg as one of the committees also announced the winners completely yesterday.
Asia’s Top 50 Apps this year is quite different from last year. There is no Top 10 Apps but there are 5 special awards based on the juries’ judgment, as stated by Joash Wee – e27 Community Manager via email. As written on e27, the Top 50 nomination based in the public vote has sent pitch from their product with 3 screenshoots to juries to find 4 winners and 1 the most voted winner.
The winners for this year are:
- People’s Choice Award: JNPhoto
- Most Valuable App: Lobangclub
- Design of the Year: Pocket OneMap
- Solution of the Year: GreenPost
- Rookie of the Year: Moglue
Unfortunately, there is no representative from Indonesia chosen as the 5 winners. However, there are many services from Indonesia on Asia’s 50 Top Apps such as idBlognetwork, Wayang Force, WriteLonger, Sajian Sedap, Waroeng Ekspres, MeetDoctor, Kriuq, Ngaku.in, 1001Malam, and Bouncity. You may find the complete list here.
Joash also explained that in this year, there are actually 51 Apps, because they had a tie for 50th place, so both are listed together.
There is a vote process previously which makes the voting is changed to Facebook like and Google +1. As mentioned by e27, there are 160 nominations for this year and more than 25.000 votes – combination of Facebook Likes and Google +1. The participants come from 10 countries.
You may read the Top 50 Apps list here and for other information of the event can be found on e27.sg.
[image from e27]