Evernotehas today launched theEvernote Developer Competitionthat offers a range of prizes to developers who build addons, or integrations, and submit them to the contest. Evernote has invested $100,000 in prize money in the contest, with the first prize winner taking home $50,000 — or enough to help a fledgling developer bury himself away for a year on the project of his choice. Six finalists will receive another $5,000 each, and special prizes exist for the Student and Wildcard categories at $10,000 a pop....

Evernote, the powerhouse note-taking software suite and service released ahuge update for Windows userstoday, including social sharing and features that will appeal to those who want to (or have always wanted to) use Evernote for writing more than just notes. Perhaps the biggest aspect of the update is the inclusion of social sharing. “Evernote, historically, has not been social — at all,” says Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote. “You go to Facebook when you fell like not being productive....

Evernote, the very popular multi-platform productivity app that lets you capture, file or archive anything and then search or retrieve that information from anywhere hasjust unveileda major new version of its web app. Featuring a three pane view, this new version of the web app has been designed with the goal of improving the user experience and to optimize performance. Users often complained that the previous version was slow and clunky and felt out of place compared to the Evernote apps for other platforms....

The folks at Evernote just keepbringing the updates(amongother news), and today they improved the overall functionality of its Google Chrome web browser extension. One of the key reasons I use Evernote is the ability to make notes from “clipping” web site content, and since Chrome is my primary browser (of late) the new features are really quite intuitive. My note-taking experience while browsing the web just got a whole lot easier and better with this upgrade....

Evernote, the company behind the popular note-taking application of the same name, is to announce today its first major expansion with the opening of a new Austin office which will see at least twelve employees join the company by the end of the year,The Statesman reports. The company currently stands at just under one hundred employees, but the company intends to more than quadruple its workforce over the next 24 months, adding 500 more employees to its books with around half of them working out of the company’s new Austin offices....