hackathons are eating the world
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The first hackathon was held in 1999, and had 10 developers. Nowadays, hackathons like TechCrunch Disrupt and PennApps draw over 1000 hackers. There are hackathons happening almost every day, in cities all over the world. The themes of these hackathons range from music, television, mobile development, security, civic hacking, education, tourism, and almost anything you can think of. Gracenote has been participating in hackathons all over the world. This presentation talks about the growth of hackathons, and the involvement of our developer program and API evangelists. It was presented at The State of Music Discovery event in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb 18th, 2014 (http://www.gracenote.com/events/musicdiscovery_japan2014), on the week of the first Music Hack Day in Tokyo.TRANSCRIPT
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Hackathons Are Eating The World
Ching-Wei Chen (@cweichen)Director, Gracenote Developer Program
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Hackathons are…
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Hackathons are…
○Usually a 24 hour event where hackers are challenged to create something from scratch
○A chance to innovate and push the boundaries of what is possible with technology
○Where developers can learn how to use new tools and APIs
○A place for people to meet people, make friends, and have fun!
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The first “hackathon” in 1999 had 10 hackers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
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TechCrunch Hackathon 2013
1200 Hackers
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Dreamforce Hackathon 2013
US$1,000,000 Prize
7From http://hackerleague.org
There are hackathons everywhere, all the time, for every cause
8From http://hackerleague.org
There are hackathons everywhere, all the time, for every cause
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There are hackathons everywhere, all the time, for every cause
From http://hackerleague.org
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This hack was made in 24 hours by students
http://spruceapp.herokuapp.com/
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This hack sold to Microsoft for US$80M
From TechCrunch Disrupt 2010, http://groupme.com
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Hackathon to build the “TV of Tomorrow”
Gracenote @ Hackathons
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First live music hackathon in SF
Gracenote @ Hackathons
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Largest hackathon event in Japan
Gracenote @ Hackathons
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The largest music hackathon in the world, since 2009
Gracenote @ Hackathons
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First Music Hack Day in JapanFeb 22-23 @ THE TERMINAL Harajuku
Music Hack Day Tokyo
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○Gracenote evangelists will be on-site to help hackers build with our APIs
○Best hacks using our API win prizes like portable speakers, quadcopter drones, and hackable robots.
○We may also build some hacks of our own
Gracenote API Evangelists
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Gracenote Hacks
Fuwari
○Mood-based playlisting app with beautiful iOS7-inspired design
○See what moods your Facebook friends are listening to
○Winner of TechCrunch Tokyo Hackathon
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Gracenote Hacks
defCOMM○Multi-player game for Pebble
watch, created at AT&T Developer Summit
○Capture songs using Gracenote Music Recognition API
○Battle players around the world for ownership of songs
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Follow us on Twitter for all our hackathon updates
@GracenoteDev