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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition.

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Cojoin | Data Integration

Tech Zulu Event

We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

Jonah believes that the media business is still mostly stuck in the traditional world where too many ad dollars and too much content is still produced in a traditional way but he thinks the next few years will change that dramatically as most competition switched to social, mobile & digital. Video is the new HTML.”

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