It’s been a while since I wrote anything in this blog, mainly because I’ve been too busy with my new job at w20 developing in Ruby on Rails and I guess, all these side-projects aren’t leaving me much more free time.

Anyway, yesterday was the final day of the Sapo Codebits competition, an event in Portugal inspired by Yahoo’s hackday but with a different twist, more workshops and activities.

I was very pleased to win the Idea award for the BookWorms project, a social network for sharing books online, which had integration with Google Maps for viewing people around your location with books to lend and Amazon Commerce webservices for adding book information to your growing collection. Btw, the worms illustration was done by Bauke Schildt. Thanks!

It was a fantastic event and a great opportunity to learn, experiment and just go crazy with it. I hope to be there next year and hopefully this month I’ll launch Bookworms in it’s first version. If you have any suggestion please do tell me. :)

In the meantime here’s some pics.

Full mainpage pic with maps and latest books:

Close-up version of the map, showing people close to your location and how many books they have:

Thanks again, and see you there next time.