Is hacking at risk? With more and more platforms creating closed environments, what does that do to the future of hackability? Hacking is critical for innovation and development, and now that the world is made of computers (what device doesn’t have a chip in it?) hacking has the power to innovate practically everywhere and affect our lives.
“I love to make things that help other people make things,” said Adam Wiggins (@hirodusk), founder of the cloud application platform Heroku, and a self-proclaimed hacker and open source enthusiast.
In his presentation, “Hackability: The future of programming in a post PC world” at the Future Insights Live conference in Las Vegas, Wiggins suggested that we look for inspiration to an adjacent industry, the Maker movement, that is enjoying the unfettered freedom to hack the physical world.
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Back in 2007, Jason Calacanis (@jason) started a human search-powered company called Mahalo (Mahalo on Wikpedia). It achieved a level of respectable success with 15M unique a month and $500K in monthly revenue, becoming the 150th most popular site in the U.S., according to Calacanis. But all of that work and success came crashing down when Google released its Panda update in 2011 that prevented content farms from building any influence. The update resulted in traffic being cut in half.
Calacanis realized he was falling into a marginalized business. He could quit, tough it out, sell, or pivot. Too proud to quit, Calacanis decided to pivot. But to do that, he’d have to ask himself questions as to what are the biggest market trends and what does he ultimately want to do.
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This article was originally a report published for Intertainment Media’s Ingaged Blog, makers and distributors of the KNCTR and Ortsbo. Hackathons are definitely the rage. Where else can a product, and sometimes an actual business be created in just 24-48 hours? A bunch of successful online services and products have been born out of hackathons. [...]
Are you making mistakes with your recruiting and you don’t even know it? At Talent Net Live at SXSW we asked some of the top recruiters what NOT to do when it comes to talent acquisition.
At this year’s ad:tech conference I went upstairs in the expo hall to the Innovation Alley and interviewed a bunch of the new young companies that were showcasing their product. Some deserved to be there. Some did not.
