metaLayer: Fourplay and Sidewinder Win MetaLayer's API Hackathon

metalayer:

Team Fourplay (above) and Team Sidewinder (below) took home the MetaLayer API Awards at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012. Both apps were built from concept to working product in only 48 hours!

FourPlay (previously Team Serendipity) used our Text API in combination with Foursquare to take ‘missed connection’ posts from Craigslist and matched the places where the encounter occurred with location data from Foursquare’s API. The result is a brilliant way to potentially find people you might have missed by looking at who’s checking in, or who’s been at those places recently!

That’s my team!

fourplay

I collaborated with a team to conceptualize, code, and present our site fourplay at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon over the last 24 hours. It is a site that mashes up Craigslist Missed Connection listings and Foursquare User data to bring you missed connections that happened near or at your check-ins. We leveraged Craigslist, MetaLayer, Factual, and Foursquare and won a prize from MetaLayer for using their API. Check out a clip of our presentation below!

I’d love to go live with this site in the coming weeks! Updates soon…

#tcdisrupt #hackathon presentations start now (Taken with instagram)

#tcdisrupt #hackathon (Taken with instagram)

Street Seats is a furniture project developed by Bade Stageberg Cox for the Pier 94 Coffee Bar at The Armory Show. The 50 chairs, found abandoned on the streets of New York, were repaired and given a new life with a coat of taxi cab yellow paint. Like the city’s residents, the chairs are an eclectic mix, and will migrate throughout the fair during its five-day run. The bottom of each chair is stamped and documented with the date and location it was recovered.

(via Bade Stageberg Cox)

thornehaus:

GOLDEN DELOREAN , LOS ANGELES , CA 2012

time for a new project! (Taken with instagram)

I am listening to this all day.

(Source: Spotify)

"We simply cannot afford to alienate large chunks of the workforce,” notes Dan Shapiro, a tech entrepreneur who sold his comparison-shopping company to Google and now works there as a product manager. Shapiro, who has blogged in the past about sexism in the tech industry, notes that “it is a widely understood truth that the single biggest challenge to a successful startup is attracting the right people. To literally handicap yourself by 50 percent is insanity."

“Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem, Tasneem Raja, Mother Jones, April 26, 2012 (via skillcrush)