UCLA is taking on USC this weekend at the University of Southern California. No, its not football or basketball, its a hackathon. The Trojan Hack is bringing together programmers from both schools, to build the best apps in a 24 hour competition. The Trojan Hack was created by Ju Hae Lee and Andreas Petasis, two USC students that were inspired by the PennApps contest, and wanted to create a competition so fierce that it would settle the question between USC and UCLA once and for all.
Hackathons are a fast growing phenomenom where developers come together, usually in short periods up to 72 hours to submit ideas, form teams and hack together applications, data visualizations and sometimes form business models around their ideas. ProgrammableWeb is tracking 20 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.
The CleanWeb Hackathon wrapped up this weekend in New York City, with the goal of building apps that explore sustainable business models leveraging the mobile and social web, challenging developers on what they can do in 24 hours with utility, transport and smart grid datasets, and APIs.
Hackathons are a fast growing phenomenom where developers come together, usually in short periods up to 72 hours to submit ideas, form teams and hack together applications, data visualizations and sometimes form business models around their ideas. ProgrammableWeb is tracking 21 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.
Getting access to good local data has been a challenge for developers. There is a huge opportunity for developers to integrate local data as people are increasingly using their mobile applications while on the move. If you have a killer idea for a local app and are looking at various data sources to integrate, you could give the newly updated US Yellow Pages API a try and win big in its developer contest.
Hackathons are a fast growing phenomenom where developers come together, usually in short periods up to 72 hours to submit ideas, form teams and hack together applications, data visualizations and sometimes form business models around their ideas. ProgrammableWeb is tracking 22 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.
College hackathons have proliferated on the northeast over the past two years, from HackNY to Startup Weekend Princeton, to PennApps, which the Dining Philosophers hold at the University of Pennsylvania on a weekend early in each semester.
This year theme was simplicity; taking a complicated app and making it easier. Of the 42 demos presented Sunday afternoon (livestream archive here), here are some of the coolest hacks that took full advantage of available APIs.
The API Mashup Contest that invited developers from Central Europe or Germany to submit Mashup ideas or applications has announced its results. The contest saw a huge response from developers and more than 70+ mashup applications were submitted for consideration. In the end the winning applications were a social shopping network, a hotel finder and an application using the Google+ API to help users find interesting people.
Hackathons are a fast growing phenomenom where developers come together, usually in short periods up to 72 hours to submit ideas, form teams and hack together applications, data visualizations and sometimes form business models around their ideas. ProgrammableWeb is tracking 22 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.
Springer, a leading scientific publisher of books and journals is building on the success of its first API contest that it had held a year back. The Springer API Challenge 1.0 contest had seen Springer Quotes, a web application to search and read articles from Springer win the top honors. Now its in second year, the Springer API Challenge 2.0 is more focused and wants developers to showcase applications that make use of specific APIs and criteria.
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