New York City’s Digital Media scene is poised to get a boost with a new developer contest. NYC Media Lab has announced Media Mash 2012, a competition that asks developers and students to create mashup applications from data and APIs exposed by media and tech companies that belong to New York City. The developer contest carries a total prize money of $10,000.
A consortium of leading German organizations has launched a contest soliciting visionary ideas for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Christened Ideabird, the consortium defines M2M as any technology that allows machines to communicate directly with each other.
The Music Apps Hack Weekend held February 25-26 at New York City’s SPiN Ping Pong Club invited developers to build music apps powered by the Spotify API. The event was organized by OMD and saw representatives from McDonalds, Mountain Dew, Doritos, State Farm and others actively engage in seeing how developers could possibly drive consumer engagement via music apps.
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 55 hackathons coming in the next couple weeks all around the world.
The travelling mobile app competition AppCircus is again coming to SXSW. Last year mobile developers joined the circus, with competitors coming from all over the world. The deadline to apply this year is Friday, February 24.
Online stock and options brokerTradeKing, has just announced the results of its $100K Campus Challenge for students to use its TradeKing API. The API lets developers build applications to manage trading activity, access to market data and account management. The company challenged business students to create uniquely new web and mobile applications.
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.
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