New Hackathon Patterns That Don't Subsequently Disrupt Your Entire Life
Hackathons often fail on the measure that most of us consider primary: the prototypes. After all, the end of the day is a demo. But lots of hackathon-born experiments don't turn out quite like their...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Invented A New PHP-Derived Language Called "Hack"
This story includes interviews with Facebook engineers Julien Verlaguet and Ed Smith.When Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard classmates first logged in to TheFacebook in February 2004, the site's servers ran...
View ArticleWhy Can't E-Books Disrupt The Lucrative College Textbook Business?
This story includes interviews with Chegg's Nathan Schultz, Texts.com's Peter Frank, and Boundless's Arial Diaz.College students today stream movies from Netflix, queue up music on Spotify, and order...
View ArticleHow Facebook Predicts Who You Know, Using Old Yahoo Code
This story includes an interview with Facebook engineer Avery Ching.Every computer science student learns the basics of graph theory--a set of mathematical abstractions for modeling networks and the...
View ArticleHow Anil Dash And Kevin McCoy Think They Can (Almost) Eradicate Fake Digital Art
Since the days of the Old Masters, it's been difficult to tell an authentic masterpiece from a fake. And once artists like Andy Warhol began using mass production techniques in their own studios,...
View ArticleHow Highcharts Won the Enterprise Data Viz Market
This story contains an interview with Highsoft CTO Torstein Hønsi.The web charting library Highcharts isn't widely known outside of data visualization circles, but it's used by organizations like IBM...
View ArticleBusinesses Can Now Use The Same Stats Language As Universities, Thanks To...
This story contains interviews with Facebook engineering manager Burc Arpat, AppNexus ad-quality engineering director Dave Himrod, and Pandas creator Wes McKinney and Pandas developer Jeff Reback.For...
View ArticleSometimes You're Just One Hop From Something Huge
This story contains an interview with Firebase CEO James Tamplin.Today, Firebase is a popular backend-as-a-service company, letting developers sync their apps and websites to Firebase's cloud without...
View ArticleWhy Salesforce Is Trying On Wearable Computing
This story includes an interview with Salesforce.com chief scientist J.P. Rangaswami.Not that long ago, being able to quickly glance at a powerful handheld computer to pull up customer information...
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This Smart Watchband Gives Your Favorite Timepiece A Brain Transplant
This story includes an interview with Kiwi Wearables cofounder Ali Nawab.The founders of Kiwi Wearables set out about a year ago to build a wearable computer controlled through state-of-the-art motion...
View ArticleOnce Browser Tech Partners, Google And Apple Are Divorcing. Is The Web In...
This story contains interviews with Telerik's Rey Bango, Google's Alex Komoroske and Opera's Lars Erik Bolstad.It's a little more than a year since Google launched Blink, a custom engine used by Chrome...
View ArticleThe Doctor Is Into This Medical Photo Sharing App
This story includes interviews with Figure 1 cofounders Gregory Levey and Dr. Joshua Landy.Doctors aren't big users of social media--their schedules don't leave a lot of time for casual status updates,...
View ArticleFinally, A 3-D Printer That Can Sculpt With Silicone, Nutella, Or Pretty Much...
This story includes an interview with Structur3D Printing cofounder and R&D director Andrew Finkle.Most 3-D printers are great at turning designs into solid structures, but can only build with one...
View ArticleIs This The Crowdfunding Site App Developers Have Been Wishing For?
This story includes interviews with Bountysource founders David Rappo and Warren Konkel.The basic idea behind Bountysource seems easy enough to explain--it's a crowdfunding site for open source...
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A Tiny Wearable Camera That Makes Photography Fun Again
This article contains an interview with Ca7ch founder and CEO Rom Eizenberg.Ca7ch founder and CEO Rom Eizenberg started thinking deeply about cameras after the birth of his son a little over two years...
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These Smartphone-Controlled Lightbulbs Are Now Shipping
This article includes an interview with Ilumi cofounder Corey Egan.When you think about household appliances that it would be nice to control from your smartphone, lightbulbs might not immediately rise...
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This Fitness Tool Uses Machine Learning To Shape Recs For Your Pecs
This article includes an interview with Stonecrysus CEO Matt Landers.A lot of wearable fitness trackers can help you keep track of how many steps you've taken or how many hours you've slept. The...
View ArticleLawn Sprinklers Smart Enough Not To Go Off In The Rain
This story includes an interview with Skydrop cofounder Clark Endrizzi.Everyone's seen automatic lawn sprinklers watering the lawn on a rainy day. It's funny, as long as you're not the one paying the...
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The Quest For The Ultimate Workout Headphones
This article includes interviews with FreeWavz founder Dr. Eric Hensen and president Harry Ericson.As an avid weightlighter, Dr. Eric Hensen knows how annoying earbuds can be at the gym. Hensen, who is...
View ArticleWhy You Should Be Watching Your Company's Cloud Stats
This article includes an interview with Databox CEO Davorin Gabrovec.Businesses can gather more and more real-time data on everything from sales to web traffic to social media buzz, but actually...
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