Posts in the Category: Echo Nest
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…
I arrived at Startup Weekend NYC with Echo Nest t-shirts and Red Bull in tow, ready to experience an event unlike no other. It was my first Startup Weekend, and I was pleasantly surprised at the massive group of people that showed up, easily close to 300 businesspeople, designers, hackers, and more! The event began…
Last weekend I travelled South to Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey for HackRU, an annual hackathon hosted by the Rutgers Computer Science club (USACS). There were about 100 student hackers in attendance that built some pretty amazing hacks over the course of the sleepless 27-hour event. I gave a demo on Saturday morning showing…