As more and more businesses are reaping the rewards of internal hackathons, agencies are starting to use hack days with clients as a way to build digital marketing products quickly. This collaborative new form of product development allows businesses to improve their existing platforms and respond quickly to changing marketing conditions and consumer demands – as FusePump and Chain Reaction Cycles found out.
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Hackathons were born straight out of the software-coding community, but do they hold any lessons for VARs? If a vendor is interested in staying on top of where their industry is headed — then yes. 
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For weeks we've been teasing you that something BIG was coming. This is it. Six months from now one hardware hacker will claim The Hackaday Prize and in doing so, secure the grand prize of a...
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But hackathons, which have been popular here since the early 2000s, are becoming less about trendy apps and more about solving real-world problems. Local hackers are paving the way for “civic hacking,” or using technology to solve city, state and neighborhood problems. And these marathon code-writing sessions are taking a turn toward the healthy in order to produce better results.
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At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a recent event called Hacking Medicine's Grand Hackfest attracted more than 450 people to work for one weekend on possible solutions to problems involving diabetes, rare diseases, global health and information technology used at hospitals.
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Filmmaker Ken Fisher was preparing about a hundred tech workers to find, talk to and videotape homeless people in the vicinity of the Twitter building in midtown San Francisco.
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The online facilitators of the Living Bridges Planet network did some moves to create spaces, that enable the connection and collaboration in an easy way during the 24 hours of the #eduhack14.
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And I'm Audie Cornish. The University of Maryland, College Park has claimed the title Best School for Hackers. They have got the trophy to prove it. Maryland beat heavyweights like MIT, Stanford, Michigan and Carnegie Mellon and they did it by sending the most students to five hackathons last year. They placed first in two of them.
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It’s been 8 weeks since we wrapped up phase one (Idea Hack) of Culture Shift 3 and this weekend, as the second and final phase kicks off we welcome back our six finalists – Mainframe Film, Chocolate City, Tae Wool, Parresia Publishers, Nigerian National Film Corporation and Fetch Strategic Insights. Over the next three days each of the organisations will work to further develop their ideas culminating in a pitch to a panel of judges on Sunday, where three of the teams will win funding and start-up support to get their concepts market ready and launched.
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At the root of all innovation is curiosity, a tinkering spirit and an ‘urge to fix something’. There are too many hackathons focusing on contests, hiring events or start-ups but none on hacking because its ‘fun’,” says Venky Goteti (40), co-founder, Devthon. “At the heart of all innovation is the culture of hacking and exploration. We want to encourage this culture,” he explains.
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A hackathon is most easily explained by relating it to the crowd-sourced, time-crunched challenges that we see every day in pop culture. From “Top Chef” to “The Apprentice” to “Extreme Makeover,” television is teeming with passionate individuals trying to solve a difficult task with incredibly constrained resources and time. What results is often remarkable by any standard and speaks to the power of concentrated, collaborative problem solving.
Sarah's curator insight,
December 13, 2013 7:29 AM
This article explains how doctors, engineers, and all types of medical specialists followed a common cultural activity found on TV, called a hackathon. Commonly seen on shows where you are given a difficult task to accomplish in a certain amount of time and given restraints, a hackathon has proven to be a successful way of brainstorming and solving problems. So, a hackathon took place to "hack pediatrics'. This 36-hour challenge might be the start of a new technique of problem solving for America.
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Recently, students from various academic departments at UB have taken home thousands of dollars in cash and prizes after prevailing over competitors from across the nation at two separate “hackathons.”
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This year at Hack for Western Mass, we're including a youth hackathon. We will be making wildflower seed bombs, building robots, doing yoga and mixed-martial arts, building virtual worlds in Minecraft, hula-hooping, creating stop-motion animations, making worm composting bins, programming Scratch games, and more!
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![Hardware Hackathon Winners Will Be Awarded A Trip To Space [Video] - PSFK | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/GXIpSIhVol_h8Wiw91LLzTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
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Airbitz and Dark Wallet developers team up to win Toronto bitcoin hackathon with DarkMarket, a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace.
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More than pizza-fueled programmer meet-ups, hackathons promote workplace readiness and professional development soft skills. Colleges should imitate them.
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Hackathons work like this: a few hundred computer programmers, designers and business-minded techies come together to form teams that develop new projects from scratch. They work toward a deadline—sometimes several days and sometimes just 24 hours—and at the end there are usually cash prizes awarded for the most innovative projects. While working, energy drinks and pizza consumption are rampant, and sleep is very optional. HACK UCSC organizers insist that, food-wise, there will at least be sandwich wraps at their event, and expect students won’t work all night or camp out at the event, though they are welcome to bring their sleeping bags into the workspace if they feel so compelled.
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Making Spot The Future a generative experience for everyone involved requires a combination of knowledge about really interesting and little know initiatives happening all over the country, journalism, creative communication, social media engagement and access to many different kinds of personal networks. It's quite a challenge but we think we can do it together. In this post we discuss the content already submitted and - See more at: http://edgeryders.eu/spot-the-future/were-reading-reviewing-and-submitting-articles-for#sthash.l1fBXHkI.dpuf
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The New York Times reported last May: Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person’s computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes and monitor cellphone communications, too.
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October 20, 2014 7:00 PM
Selling the idea that everyone can be hacked, that is some marketing tactic.
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When Dave Fontenot moved to the University of Michigan from his home in South Florida in the fall of 2011, he brought the standard equipment every freshman college student needs -– clothes, shoes, books, and a backpack. One item, though, was missing.
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Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the western hemisphere when it comes to the internet. That's why technology experts and programmers are meeting in South Florida for the first ever "Hackathon for Cuba."
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Massive amounts of unstructured data are held in the form of PDF documents, but extracting key figures and words out of PDFs in a programmatic manner can be difficult and costly.
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Culture is the social infrastructure or operating system of an organisation. It is everywhere and you cannot see it but it is ingrained in habits. Great culture hacks change habits. Seb Paquet – derived from http://youtu.be/ojQT6U-gRAM
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