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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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Lina Chen: Nix Hydra makes mobile games for the young female demographic. Naomi Ladizinsky: We looked at the mobile gaming market and couldnt find the games we really wanted to play, so we decided to make them. startup interview female women mobile apple itunes eggbaby capital venture content development videogame hydra'

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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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

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Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? So mobile is a huge part of it. You aren’t going to make a mobile-centric app right now? Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. What’s your take on the mobile ecosystem in the future?

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AT&T and American Airlines | The SXSW Party & Hackathon Recap

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The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Team Round Trip – Round Trip is the first mobile app of its kind. Technologies used: HTML5, python, django, jQuery Mobile, javascript, mysqldb. Technologies used: SQL Server, C#, IIS, HTML, and CSS. Up for grabs for first place at this hack was $10k.

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

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Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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

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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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