Controversy swirled around Salesforce.com’s $1 million hackathon contest last month. After an internal review, the winner still stands and the runner up gets a mill too! Talk about win win!
Chromecast currently only supports a limited number of apps, but many more could be available soon, thanks to Google getting ready to release the Google Cast SDK.
What motivates 70 people to spend two days in a conference room, coding their hearts out? For the participants in this weekend’s Google hackathon, the answer was a lot bigger than just winning a new TV.
A hardware-oriented hackathon at the Open Compute Summit on Wednesday could become a model for similar events on college campuses.
Facebook’s hackathons have generated some cool ideas. Facebook shared the top hacks from 2012 that range from silly (3-D printed globes showing where and how people use Facebook) to serious (calendar views for you upcoming events on the site).
Silicon valley may be looking toward in-vitro meat as the cuisine of the future, but there are plenty in the food and tech industries looking at alternatives. They’re getting together in New York to explore other ways technology can reduce our dependence on meat.
Miss Nev (as in “never miss a package”), the winning hack of Dwolla and Etsy’s eCommerce Hack Day in New York, plans to launch a platform that lets local businesses receive packages for customers in exchange for purchases or payment.
The early bird catches the worm – and then posts about it on Facebook: Bed Battles is a new web app hack that aims to gamify getting out of bed. Are you ready to challenge your friends to get up on time?
Serial entrepreneur Ryan Carson says hack weekends are a blight on the landscape, cashing in on the ‘youth and optimism’ of coders to turn a quick buck. Adherents aren’t so sure. So who’s right?
