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

Tech Zulu Event

The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Technologies used: SQL Server, C#, IIS, HTML, and CSS. Not only did they get all types of swag and great food, these hackers got to be some of the first to build on APIs from AT&T and American Airlines. Up for grabs for first place at this hack was $10k.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Video is the new HTML.” I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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