Last month Wizi won the first prize in the Orange API and Widget Contest. Second runners were Microsoft and Cellfish Media. The event was held at Orange Partner Camp in Faro, Portugal and intended to find innovative applications able to make use of their APIs. Participants had no prior access to them and had to develop their solutions during the Camp with help from Orange API engineers during one or two days of work. Wizi partnered with Symlabs, a global leader in identity management, for the mashup development.

The demonstration was presented live to an audience of 600 participants and included features as signing in using Orange Authentication API and importing contacts to Wiziʼs social network using Orange Contacts API.

According to Wiziʼs CEO, Paulo Dimas, “The launch of Orange APIs is an exciting moment for Wizi. Orange customers will now be able to benefit from Wiziʼs unique location sharing features in a seamless way and Wizi can extend its user base to the large universe of Orange subscribers. In the future, we look forward to integrate with other Orange APIs, like the Calendar API, where Wiziʼs travel time prediction technology could be used to alert users of when to leave for an important meeting.”