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• in Technology
  An Opportunity Missed: The Olympics-as-a-Platform
  An “Olympic App Competition” and open data and social media policies would have made 2012 the most interactive Olympics ever.
  by jhaughwout / on Aug 5, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “hackathon”

 

• EV & Bike News Roundup

  
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  Some more top electric car news from the past week or so: Bikes Copenhagenize Index 2013 — Bicycle-Friendly Cities Milan’s Design Week Shows Italian Ebike — Cykno New Bike-Friendly Cities — Texas Instruments, The World Bank Group, & More  EVs Two BYD Manufacturing ...
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• Need Funding? Then join AngelHack Manila

  
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  AngelHack Manila – the Manila Leg of AngelHack Spring 2013 that will be held at the Voyager and Chikka floors (12th and 13th) of the Anson Building, ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City this June 8 to 9 2013. The winner/s will flown to San Francisco and will have the chance to win the US$100K in funding [...] The post ...
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• Teenager Designs Twitter Software To Stop Spoilers

  
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  American teenager Jennie Lamere has created a piece of software to prevent people from seeing spoilers about their favourite films and TV shows and this inspired piece of coding has won her the title of “best in show” at a hackathon being held in Boston, US. 17 year old Jennie Lamere spent around 10 hours ...
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• Teen Wins Hackathon With Twitter Spoiler Blocker And Gets Picked Up By Tech Company

  
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  If you love to tweet while watching TV shows, you probably have a healthy hatred of spoilers – particularly if you live on the West Coast. (Those East Coast folks seem to delight in ruining shows for the of us, don’t they?) But very soon, that could all change. A teen just won a hacking competition by submitting ...
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• 17-Year-Old Coder Creates Software to Save You From Spoilers

  
  Geekosystem — Authority: 704
  We’ve had many screaming matches polite discussions about spoilers here in the Geekosystem office, but this is probably something everyone can agree is a good thing. A 17-year-old coder named Jennie Lamere has created software that filters your Twitter feed for discussion of shows you don’t want spoiled . ...
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• US$100K funding and incubation at stake at AngelHack

  
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  AngelHack Manila is set for June 8 to 9, and US$100,000 in funding and incubation is earmarked for the grand prize in September. AngelHack is slated as the biggest hackathon in the world, with local events happening in some 30 cities around the globe leading up to the September 2013 finals. This Spring (rainy season ...
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• #CIPD #Hackmanagement - Hierarchical ideas dying slowly

  
  HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM) — Authority: 123
      Ive been thinking about posting something on this for a few weeks, linked in to my previous comments on employee engagement becoming more social. As you may know, Im involved in the Engage for Success movement for promoting engagement, e.g. being one of the team which host its podcast show .  I also got ...
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• Our Appium Hackathon Was A Success, More To Come

  
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  The hackathon we co-hosted with  Sauce Labs  last week to dive into Appium , the open source tool for mobile automation, was a brilliant success. Thank you to all who came out! We had such a great time that we plan to hold another hackathon soon. We had a full house of 30 or so Appium hackers ranging from the ...
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• Prebacked Flips the Script on Incubators

  
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  There is now another incubator making waves, but unlike so many that claim to be different, Prebacked actually seems to have implemented a novel approach. Rather than teach startups the ropes and help them find companies/customers whose problems they solve, Prebacked solicits problems from companies and sectors and ...
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• Featured: BMW EV hackathon works on anonymous driver communication to make charging easier

  
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  Filed under: Emerging Technologies , EV/Plug-in , Green Culture , BMW BMW brought 80 software developers and computer programmers together to tackle the themes of sustainability and electro-mobility in a hackathon last month. BMW hosted the Sustainability Hackathon to deal with a widespread problem - ...
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• Please Vote for Sunlights “Civic Hacking in Pursuit of Democracy” Video

  
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  Here’s an appeal for our readers: please help Sunlight spread the news of the great work civic hackers do as far and wide as possible by voting for our storytelling video in the Looking@Democracy contest organized by the Illinois Humanities Council with support from the MacArthur Foundation. (Voting ends May ...
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• Solving Storytelling Problems at Tribeca Hacks

  
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  Technology-centered hackathons identify real-world problems and then attempt to solve them through rapid prototyping. Artistic hackathons — 48-Hour Playwriting contests and the like — use compressed time periods to stave off creators’ perennial demons (procrastination, usually manifested by a compulsive desire ...
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• BMW Hackathon 2013 smartphone apps for electric cars

  
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  BMW Hackathon 2013 smartphone apps for electric cars.l This 2 day event was sponsored by car sharing service DriveNow and ChargePoint who are two major operators of charging networks where electric vehicles are concerned.
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• Healthtech startup Prebacked wants to reverse the incubator process

  
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  Most incubators aim to help startups land funding for their ideas, but one healthcare technology startup is aiming to change this model. Prebacked  hosts pre-incubation programs that get customers (large enterprises, such as Fortune 500 companies) to pitch the problems they are facing to early-stage startup teams, ...
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• Does FoundationDB beat the CAP conjecture? Hackathon on Friday!

  
  OpenSource Connections — Authority: 121
  We’re cohosting a hackathon with FoundationDB on Friday. For those of you not in the know, FoundationDB is a pretty exciting addition to the NoSQL space. It brings flexible, arbitrary transactionality (including atomic cross-row joins in a distributed system) to NoSQL. My colleague Doug Turnbull got very excited ...
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• Collaborate in the First Virtual Hackathon – #Commhacks For Communications Pros

  
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  Here’s something fun to add to your May activities … My friend Sarah Evans emailed me last night to let me know that Tracky had just launched the first Virtual Hackathon called #Commhacks for communications professionals. When I asked Sarah how #CommHacks came to fruition, she explained, “We created the ...
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• Facebook rethinks its ‘hackathons’ with an eye toward mobile

  
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  Facebook is retooling its famous "hackathon" all-night coding workshops to give engineers more time to conceive new products, hopefully with a focus on mobile.
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• Lick Your Chops: Register for Hack//Meat Silicon Valley

  
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  Calling all hackers, food industry “steakholders,” entrepreneurs and creatives: Registration for Hack//Meat Silicon Valley is now open! June 21-23, 2013 //  Palo Alto, California WHAT IS HACK//MEAT SILICON VALLEY? Following the success of Hack//Meat NYC, we heard nonstop from our friends and colleagues on the ...
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• The Houston Hackathon

  
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  From the Mayor’s office : Mayor Annise Parker Houston Mayor Annise Parker today announced the City of Houston will host a 24-hour “ Open Innovation Hackathon ” on May 17-18 at the Houston Technology Center and at Start Houston . A hackathon is a day-long event in which software developers, ...
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• Join Us for the First Salesforce Non-Profit Developer Hackathon!

  
  Force.com Blog — Authority: 138
  If you’re in the Bay Area, and a five day week of hacking on Visualforce pages, Apex triggers and JavaScript callbacks is just not enough awesome for you, join us this Saturday, May 4th, for the very first ‘Salesforce Developer Garage’ event! Salesforce Platform Developer Relations are partnering with the ...
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