Intuit and Xtify are running a contest that’s very close to my heart. Xtify provides a set of location-based APIs so you can see where the people using your application actually are. And of course Intuit is a huge supporter of Flex and they have a very robust SDK for building Flex applications on their platform. Combine those two things and you have the Intuit/Xtify Application Contest.

The contest started yesterday, so you’re already late. The publishing deadline for your application is June 23rd, so you’ve still got a couple of months. The grand prize is $7,000 and there are also $4,000 and $1,500 prizes for 1st and 2nd place. This is a great chance for people interested in location and RIAs to earn some money while playing with a great platform. I might even try and enter