Posts By: jonmarkgo
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…
by Austin Carr – Fast Company
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
First off, I want to say that this was by far the largest hackathon I have ever been to, with more than 500 hackers filling a roomy warehouse on New York’s West side to kick off TechCrunch’s awesome 2011 Disrupt conference. The hackers arrived all morning, cheerfully greeting each other and pitching their ideas to…
by maandag – iPhoneClub
by Adrianne Jeffries – BetaBeat
by Alexia Tsotsis – TechCrunch
by John Biggs – TechCrunch