Startups 5 Lessons From the Garage48 Helsinki Hackathon Garage48 Helsinki, the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week. It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. Sixteen startups were created during the weekend. Together with Osma Ahvelampi (CTO, Sulake) and Teemu Kurppa (co-founder, Jaiku), I… Ramine Darabiha View comments
Analysis Word Cloud 2.0: The Spatial Dimension Word clouds: No doubt you've seen these graphic representations of the most commonly used words in a body of text, floating around the internet. They are especially popular after big political speeches. Thanks to IBM researcher Jonathan Feinberg's web site Wordle.net, word clouds are easy for anyone to create. To draw a loose analogy: Wordle… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Apple iPhone to Android: Automation Many weeks have passed since my iPhone met its unfortunate end thanks to a dive into a pond that left it, even after i-Hospitalization, without Wi-Fi, a functional USB port (it charges, but does not sync) and with a flaky Bluetooth connection. Now, the Mute switch has stopped working, too. Who knows what will fail next? In the meantime, I've made… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Breaking Internet Blackout in Syria? Update: The answer to the question in the headline seems to be no, for now. Following Egypt's severing of its main ISP connections to the Internet, Syria has now reportedly done the same. Possibly anticipating the political wildfire that has leapt from Tunis to Algeria to Libya and now to Egypt, authorities may be trying a preemptive block… Curt Hopkins View comments
APIs How FluidDB Built an API for Boing Boing in an Evening This week, Boing Boing posted its entire 11 year archive (63,999 posts) in XML format. But Nicholas H.Tollervey from FluidDB wanted more." XML is good, but having a searchable database of posts is better," he writes on the FluidDB blog. So he ported Boing Boing's XML archive into FluidDB. "Because of FluidDB's open nature anyone can now make… Hack Klint Finley View comments