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• Science Hack Day!

  
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  We’re excited to announce that we will be hosting this year’s Science Hack Day ! Check out the info below: Science Hack Day Houston will be a 24hr science hacking marathon that will bring together developers, scientists and other geeks in the same physical space for a brief but intense period of ...
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• 5 Tips for Hosting an Awesome Hackathon

  
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  Want to know how to host a killer Hackathon? Huddles own Daniel Hough offers his tips.
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• The Facebook Open Graph Challenge

  
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  Introduction The kind of person we are can be defined by what we do; the music we listen to, the places we go, the food we eat, the books we read, the interests we have. By integrating with the Open Graph, your app can help people express who they are through their Facebook Timeline by publishing the user’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Game-Changer: Toma.hk Embeds Music from Spotify, SoundCloud, Last.fm, More

  
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  If you’ve already heard of the social cross-service music app for the desktop, Tomahawk, you already know how cool it is. Freelance developer Syd Lawrence, the same man who brought us the frivolous This Was My Jam, donned his thinking cap to build Toma.hk, a simple-to-use web app that lets anyone embed music on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Soundtrack of You: Another Way to Listen to Music from your Conception

  
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  The Byrds and the Bee Gees web app attracted a fair amount of attention at Rethink Music Hack Day for the way it generated a Spotify playlist based on what your parents were likely listening to when you were conceived, with an extra option that asks you to specify “whether your dad was smooth back then.” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unreleased Rage++ iPad App, Designed for Party Music, Does Not Enrage Us

  
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  We’ll stop writing about all the neat stuff to emerge from Music Hack Day Sydney at some point, but I’m not done with this thing yet, even as my jetlag is finally waning. Although this latest iteration of the Music Hack Day series produced only just north of 20 functional apps, they were all humdingers. [...]
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• Soundtastic Serves Up ‘Pop-Up Video’ and Smart Radio from YouTube

  
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  First, let us note that you cannot yet use Soundtastic, built by Eric Bae at Music Hack Day Sydney this past weekend. But we witnessed a fully-functional demonstration, and it was pretty impressive. Bae likens his creation to “StumbleUpon for music,” and in a way, he’s right. Soundtastic mines your Facebook ...
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• Video: 8Bit Serato DJ Makes Synched Visuals from NES for Nightclubs

  
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  Dylan Wood of Serato, which makes the industry-standard DJ setup that lets people the playback of MP3s as if they were vinyl records, put together this show-stopping music hardware hack at Sydney Music Hack Day in a single weekend: 8Bit Serato VJ. Once again, a Music Hack Day has made me wonder why I became [...]
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• JPortal Unearthed Injects Up-and-Coming Bands into Live Radio

  
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  It’s a problem that exists all around the world: Radio stations can only play on song at a time, and those songs tend to be the ones that a person or algorithm has already decided is worthy of airplay. We all know there’s plenty of great new stuff sitting there, but it’s not always easy [...]
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• ‘Wish You Were Here’ Lets You Listen In, Sort Of, When You Miss the Big Show

  
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  Nobody likes missing out on the big gig, whether due to a prior commitment, lack of funds, or scarcity of tickets, as with the the recent tours by Kraftwerk and Pulp). Wish You Were Here, developed at Music Hack Day Sydney, is a simple web app that promises to alleviate some pain on the part [...]
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• Ivy, Like InstaPaper for Music, Turns Web into Rdio Party Playlists

  
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  We were mightily impressed with the music apps created at Music Hack Day Sydney — the first such hackathon ever to be held in the southwestern hemisphere. The latest to float our boat: Ivy, a web app that lets friends or coworkers add songs to a group playlist that they can all hear at the same [...]
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• ‘This Was My Jam’ Cracks Us Up with Humorous Twist

  
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  SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — You might already know about This Is My Jam, which encourages users to post the one song they truly care about at any given time, in a refreshing change from the deluge of millions of songs that threaten to entertain music fans at any given time these days. When you update your [...]
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• SoCo Frees Sonos Digital Music System for Web, Text-Message Control

  
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    SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — When Sonos released an API to let developers build music apps that could talk to its excellent line of connected speakers for the home, we expected a deluge of neat stuff, but it never showed. That changed this weekend, with the creation of SoCo (pictured above) and SonoShell (below), whose ...
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• Innovative Sound Effects Finder Aims to End Designers’ Tedium

  
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  SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — The sound designers who make our videogames, plays, movies, television shows, and so on face a Herculean task when it comes to finding the right door slams, thunderclaps, and so on:  They have to trawl through massive sonic databases looking just the right creaky door sound, to enhance scenes on ...
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• Recco Bot for Music: The Only Twitter Bot You Might Ever Like

  
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  SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Most Twitter bots drive us insane with demands to buy tooth whitener or win free iPads. This one just wants to play you the music you want to hear. It really couldn’t be much simpler: just enter an artist name, or some text with the artist name in it, and send that to [...]
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• InstaSound Will Let Vinyl and CD Shoppers Preview Songs, Share Finds with Friends

  
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  SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — We already know the vinyl revival is not going away. Now, there’s a handy new app looking to help record shoppers (not to mention CD holdouts) listen to albums before buying them, as well as sharing their prospective purchases with friends a la Instagram. Enter: InstaSound. This iOS app (with a ...
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• 2 Percent of Australia’s Raspberry Pi Devices Are Apparently at Music Hack Day Sydney

  
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  SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Raspberry Pi is a fairly raw computer that a bit larger than a credit-card that costs $25, and which hackers can turn into a wide variety of things. It’s a blank canvas, making it perfectly suited to the hardware hackers at Music Hack Days such as the one happening today here in [...]
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• Facebook Hipster Promises To Be Klout for Music Fans

  
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  Facebook Hipster is a work in progress at this very moment, but developer and Music Hack Day Sydney participant Syd Lawrence promises he’ll finish it today and launch it tomorrow. From what we know about Facebook Hipster so far, it pushes a lot of the right buttons, functioning like a Klout for musical taste. Enter ...
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• Music Hack Day Sydney Showcases Aussie Ingenuity, Worldwide Technology

  
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  SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Australia’s first-ever Music Hack Day has begun here at Red Bull’s Sydney headquarters, and judging from the volume and intensity of the initial conversations between the over 50 hackers and sponsors in attendance, it’s going to be real “corker,” as we say here down under. The music ...
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• Hacking into the science of solutions

  
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  Science Hack Day (SHD) is an event that aims to bring together designers, developers and scientists with good ideas to collaborate together and come up with solutions within a timeframe of 48 hours....
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