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Final Chance to Vote for Your Favorite BOSS Mashable Challenge SubmissionOctober 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pmSource:Mashable! With the stock market continuing to plunge, one thing remains constant: financial news sites like to tell part of the story with images of distressed Wall Street traders and executives that are experiencing some of the worst moments of their careers. While the news of the day is indeed troubling and makes us all nervous, the emotion captured in some of these images is better than that any story could tell. Here are 8 of the best pictures we’ve spotted on the homepages of various business news hubs during the current market meltdown: from The Motley Fool from TheStreet.com from Reuters from WSJ.com from USA Today from Fortune - the CEO of General Electric from BusinessWeek - the CEO of General Motors Feel free to post links to some of the best imagery you’ve seen from around the Web in the comments. —Related Articles at Mashable | All That’s New on the Web:The US Financial Crisis-Nigerian Email Scam ParodyBillShrink Wants to Help You Manage Your Credit CardsShare Your Investment Portfolios on FacebookCould the Weak US Housing Market Hurt Google?Look Out NWS: Reuters Building a Financial MySpaceCake Financial to Launch Free Investors NetworkStartups, it’s Time to Stop Calling Yourselves That
The voting period for the BOSS Mashable Challenge ends Sunday, October 12th at 11:59 pm PT. So far, we have received over 2,500 votes. On Tuesday, October 14th, Mashable and Yahoo will verify the voting data and confirm the winners. The Grand Prize winner will receive $2,000 and an exclusive article on Mashable about their mashup. The runner up will receive $1,000 and Yahoo! and Mashable’s Kudos. The top 10 include: PlayerSearch, Tall Street, Surf Canyon, iMusicMash, CopyrightSpot, Socialmention, TuneChimp, PopGist, and Kallout. You can read the full descriptions at the submissions showcase page or read the brief descriptions below. Good luck! Voting Round for The BOSS Mashable Challenge ( polls) Voting is also secured by PollDaddy’s IP & Cookie security in a strong effort to thwart any attempts at spamming the system. Duck Duck Go has been removed due to an obvious attempt at gaming the system. Brief description from developer: “Player Search is a vertical search engine for sports that searches local and national news, video, photos, stats and more for content targeted to individual athletes.” Brief description from developer: “Tall Street is a new search engine concept where you get to rank the results” Brief description from developer: “Using BOSS, Surf Canyon accelerates the search experience on Yahoo!, enabling you to find relevant information buried in the results.” Brief description from developer: “iMusicMash is an iPhone social web application, which brings life to your music experience.” Brief description from developer: “CopyrightSpot allows you to discover all the spots where your licensed and unlicensed original content lives on the web.” Brief description from developer: “Social Mention allows you to track conversations about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape.” Brief description from developer: “TuneChimp is the easiest way to discover the best music from any artist!” Brief description from developer: “PopGist develops the novel search ranking algorithm based on auto discovered and topic focused expert pages, and the innovative result presentation interface with discussion threads” Brief description from developer: “Search is trapped inside the browser. KallOut sets it free. Get results in context over any website or Microsoft Office.” —Related Articles at Mashable | All That’s New on the Web:Announcing the Yahoo! Search BOSS Mashable Challenge ($3,000 in prizes)Call for Video Submissions for Enterprise 2.0 LaunchPad - Deadline is Tomorrow!Mazda3 Concept Car Contest on FacebookPopGistVoting Round for the BOSS Mashable ChallengeTuneChimpTall Street
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