Facebook telly app wins £60k from Samsung

The company put the money up to encourage apps that would run on its TVs. Which is a reasonably specific brief.

Astra Recommends, the winning app, has scooped £60,000 of Samsung's money, pushing streamed movie trailers app CineTrailer into second place with £25,000. It lets you "like" TV shows and recommend them to your Facebook friends as well as making its own recommendations based on your previous viewing.

The judges rated CineTrailer as "an innovative service with an easy to use interface" - surely a slap in the face for LoveFilm which also provides movie trailers as well as the movies themselves, but as LoveFilm already ships with Samsung TVs it's probably not "innovative" any more.

CineTrailer did garner 196 public votes, which also won it the UK "Popular Choice" award, doing much better than the 20 votes that Astra Recommends managed, and more than double the 77 votes gained by the genuinely-innovative-if-slightly-odd TV Darts Show which came in third.

TV Darts Show pocketed £6,000, along with creepy TV-stalking app "Where are my people?" and home shopping service Zubibu@TV, both of which also got a third-place prize.

Much as we'd love to hate Astra Recommends, developed by the irritatingly-trendy Capablue design house, it is getting harder to find decent TV worth watching amid the multiple channels and video-on-demand services, so help finding quality viewing is appreciated. But we're far from convinced we need an app, and a Samsung app store, just for that. ®

source. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/21/samsung_tv_competition/

Beer Guy: Craggie's apple wood dark wheat ‎

Since opening almost a year ago, Asheville's Craggie Brewing Co. has carved its reputation around being a little different. That's certainly true of its latest creation, Hendo Schwarzweiss, a German-style dark wheat brew aged on apple wood chips gathered from a Henderson County orchard.

The beer will be served Sunday at Asheville's annual Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival, and it's on tap at Craggie's tasting room, 197 Hilliard Ave. The timing is perfect, since apple season is just arriving, and breweries are bringing out various Bavarian-style ales in celebration of Oktoberfest.

Initially, Craggie brewer Bill Drew considered a beer made with Henderson County apples or cider but then decided to flavor the beer with apple wood branches. Dark in color but light in alcohol (just 3.7 percent), it's perfect to pair with a hardy German meal or enjoy one on its own.

Looking ahead, Craggie is planning a dopplebock for the season and a chipotle porter. Craggie's beers should be getting greater exposure around the mountains and beyond, now that it's being handled by Tryon Distributing.

Tony Kiss

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source. http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100903/ENT/309030006/1295/outdoorsresults/Beer-Guy-Craggie-s-apple-wood-dark-wheat?odyssey=nav|head

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