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Aidan Feldman is a developer, evangelist and general ne’er-do-well at Jux. When he isn’t up all night coding with his cats, he’s leading a double life as a modern dancer. Check out his blog, Github and tweeters. Find more info about the Hacker Olympics here, and follow @hackerolympics on Twitter. So I’m a hackathon junkie…
Last week I took the long trek uptown to attend the monthly Columbia Venture Community meetup. The CVC is a private meetup for those affiliated with Columbia University, but I managed to score an invite through unusual means. Honorary Twilion Jeff Novich was using the February CVC Meetup to demo and test Cnvrge, a Twilio-Powered…
I’m a hacker. So when I was invited to mentor at Lean Startup Machine, let alone two of them in a row, I was a bit taken aback. The Lean Startup concept is a metrics-driven process that allows founders to test their ideas against reality. What could I, a hack-jitsu master, learn from a bunch…
It was the first weekend in November when hundreds of hackers descended upon Microsoft NERD in Cambridge, still recovering from their Halloween sugar highs. Their goal: to create the next generation of music tech at Music Hack Day Boston. The event began as most hackathons do, with API demos from the sponsors and project pitches…
Small businesses have long been searching for effective ways to utilize social networks to better engage their customers and spread the word about their brand. VenueMachine was created at the 2011 Foursquare Global Hackathon with this in mind, providing a platform for businesses to easily identify and reach out to social influencers. I spoke to…
I entered General Assembly at 10 AM on the morning of September 17, 2011 in full Twilio regalia, ready to get hacking with the crème de la crème of Foursquare developers. To my amazement, up on the projector screen was a live feed of the in-progress hackathons overseas in Tokyo and Paris. Akshay and the…
My name is Jon Gottfried and I joined Twilio as a Developer Evangelist to evangelise your apps. I was first introduced to Twilio by John Britton, and within minutes of visiting the website I realized that I had discovered something amazing. From the first time I used Twilio, ideas for apps started popping into my…
The inaugural Video Hack Day was held in New York City’s General Assembly last weekend. More than 100 hackers gathered from around the world, coming from as far away as Budapest to create a lineup of mind-warping hacks using APIs from Shelby.tv, FrameSocket, YouTube, Boxee, OpenTok, and many more awesome startups. As soon as the API…
Once in a while, I find myself daring enough to brave the waters of a customer service call center. It is generally a frustrating experience, but most often results in a happy ending. This was not one of those times. My Droid Incredible has been broken for quite some time now, likely by my own