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Tips for a Great Hackathon

hackerearth

In 1999, the word “hackathon” was used at the OpenBSD event in Calgary and then a little later at the Sun Microsystems JavaOne conference. Once you finalize the initial details, it is time to formulate and communicate a well-thought out code of conduct to all attendees via the website, posters, social channels, etc. Code of Conduct.

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Make the Commercial First

Boxes and Arrows

Way before starting to code, discover the true value of the idea using tools you probably already have. Making commercials or demo videos used to be a complex and costly process, costing tens of thousands of dollars, but modern computers and video recording on phones have changed all this. We’re already in a new era of video.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

Now, with the advent of innovation software, the process of ideation and collaboration mostly happens online. Due to the time limit, participants will be intensely focused on innovation. In many cases the goal is to create usable software or hardware. Offline/group discussions can often be dominated by the same talkative people.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

Now, with the advent of innovation software, the process of ideation and collaboration mostly happens online. Due to the time limit, participants will be intensely focused on innovation. In many cases the goal is to create usable software or hardware. Offline/group discussions can often be dominated by the same talkative people.

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Can Microsoft Claw its Way Back into Relevancy?

Outside Innovation

At the Apple announcement on September 9th, Microsoft was given top billing in the iPad Pro demos. But Microsoft has never explicitly written software on the Linux OS for commercial applications. The bottom line: Microsoft needed software-defined networking for its Azure Cloud. This surprised many.

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Wings: Remastered and Revisited

CorporateIntel

A few decades back, before I became a software and media executive and long before I returned to writing, I wrote the “screenplay” for a succesful computer game called Wings. At the moment I’m a first time novelist , my book This is Rage: A Novel of Silicon Valley and Other Madness just released last month to good reviews.

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

P&G), software (e.g., There are numerous conferences dedicated to it and literally hundreds of articles, reports and posts discussing it. Every time a customer calls, requires a demo, has a 1-hour meeting with a sales person, etc. become merely just more ‘software’ once they are commercialized. The World Ahead of Us.