Posts By: jonmarkgo
Last month, Twilio hackers from all around the metro area descended on the offices of Union Square Ventures for the February 2012 Twilio Meetup. Fueled by pizza and beer, we began a fun night of live coding, karaoke, and mingling with the awesome people of New York’s Twilio community. Join our Meetup group and keep…
Aidan Feldman is a developer, evangelist and general ne’er-do-well at Jux. When he isn’t up all night coding with his cats, he’s leading a double life as a modern dancer. Check out his blog, Github and tweeters. Find more info about the Hacker Olympics here, and follow @hackerolympics on Twitter. So I’m a hackathon junkie…
Last week I took the long trek uptown to attend the monthly Columbia Venture Community meetup. The CVC is a private meetup for those affiliated with Columbia University, but I managed to score an invite through unusual means. Honorary Twilion Jeff Novich was using the February CVC Meetup to demo and test Cnvrge, a Twilio-Powered…
by Carl Pierre – InTheCapital
I’m a hacker. So when I was invited to mentor at Lean Startup Machine, let alone two of them in a row, I was a bit taken aback. The Lean Startup concept is a metrics-driven process that allows founders to test their ideas against reality. What could I, a hack-jitsu master, learn from a bunch…
by Harrison Weber – The Next Web
by Adrianne Jeffries – BetaBeat
It was the first weekend in November when hundreds of hackers descended upon Microsoft NERD in Cambridge, still recovering from their Halloween sugar highs. Their goal: to create the next generation of music tech at Music Hack Day Boston. The event began as most hackathons do, with API demos from the sponsors and project pitches…
Small businesses have long been searching for effective ways to utilize social networks to better engage their customers and spread the word about their brand. VenueMachine was created at the 2011 Foursquare Global Hackathon with this in mind, providing a platform for businesses to easily identify and reach out to social influencers. I spoke to…