Over 500 individuals recently gathered in New York City for this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. This annual event, fueled by pizza, beer, and Red Bull, features teams of die-hard techies that spend 20 hours, many without sleep (hence the Red Bull), developing and coding the next big idea. Participants compete in a lightning round of pitches in front of a panel of judges with the winners receiving an opportunity to pitch on the main stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in front of more than 1,000 venture capitalists and industry insiders.
We are excited that one of the apps that was developed at the 2011 Hackathon was powered by Gnip data! We love it when our customers find new and creative ways to use the data we provide.
Edward Kim (@edwkim) and Eric Lubow (@elubow) from SimpleReach (@SimpleReach), which provides next generation social advertising for brands, put a team together to develop LinkCurrent, an app powered by Gnip data and designed to measure the current and future social value of a specific URL. When fully developed, the LinkCurrent app will provide the user with a realtime dashboard illustrating various measures of a URL’s worth — featuring an overall social score, statistics on the Klout Scores of people who have Tweeted the URL, how many times the URL has been Liked on Facebook and posted on Twitter, and geo-location information to provide insight into the content’s reach. Call it influence-scoring for web content.
The hackathon team also included Russ Bradberry (@devdazed) and Carlos Zendejas (@CLZen), also of SimpleReach, Jeff Boulet (@properslang) of EastMedia/Boxcar (@eastmedia/@boxcar), Ryan Witt (@onecreativenerd) of Opani (@TheOpanis), and Michael Nutt (@michaeln3) of Movable Ink (@movableink)– Congratulations to everyone who participated! You created an amazing app in less than 20 hours and developed a creative new use for Gnip data. I highly encourage all of you to check it out: www.linkcurrent.co
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