Hackathons - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 22:39:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Facebook, Open Compute Project Set Hardware Hackathon June 18 Facebook and the Open Compute Project will hold a hardware hackathon at the social network’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Tuesday, June 18, at noon PT, with the winners receiving up to $10,000 in seed funding and mentoring to groom their idea for pitching to venture capitalists.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/facebook-open-compute-project-gigaom-hackathon_b117621#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-open-compute-project-gigaom-hackathon_b117621 http://allfacebook.com/?p=117621 Thu, 16 May 2013 11:27:46 +0000 Facebook To Add More Support For Emoji Within Status Updates, Comments If you’ve noticed more friends posting colorful status updates and more descriptive emoticons in comments, you’re not alone. Facebook announced Wednesday that it is adding more support for emoji — a standardized set of emoticons and picture characters.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/facebook-to-add-more-support-for-emoji-within-status-updates-comments_b116957#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/facebook-to-add-more-support-for-emoji-within-status-updates-comments_b116957 http://allfacebook.com/?p=116957 Wed, 08 May 2013 13:41:48 +0000 Facebook, MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, FOSI Team Up On Project:Connect Initiative Aimed At Safer Internet For Youths Facebook, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla, and the Family Online Safety Institute will team up on Project:Connect, an all-day hackathon in New York Thursday, May 9, aimed at developing social tools, applications, badges, and curriculum to aid younger Internet users in making more responsible choices.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/projectconnect_b115598#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/projectconnect_b115598 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115598 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:44:20 +0000 HackEd 2.0: Facebook, Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Join Forces Again Facebook and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will team up to host two education-based hackathons in April, aimed at uniting education technology enthusiasts, education experts, and developers.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/hacked-2-0-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation_b114264#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/hacked-2-0-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation_b114264 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114264 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:48:35 +0000 Facebook Marks Digital Learning Day With List Of Resources For Educators Facebook marked Digital Learning Day Wednesday by offering a list of available resources for educators on its Facebook in Education page.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/digital-learning-day_b110200#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/digital-learning-day_b110200 http://allfacebook.com/?p=110200 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:28:01 +0000 Registration Opens For 2013 Facebook Hacker Cup Can you feel it in the air? It’s almost Hacker Cup time at Facebook. The social network announced in a post on the Facebook Engineering page that registration is now open for the 2013 Facebook Hacker Cup.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/registration-2013-facebook-hacker-cup_b108190#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/registration-2013-facebook-hacker-cup_b108190 http://allfacebook.com/?p=108190 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:50:39 +0000 Facebook Engineering Details Favorite 2012 Hacks With 2012 drawing to a close, Facebook celebrated its hacker culture by sharing its favorite hacks from the past year in a note on the Facebook Engineering page.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/favorite-2012-hacks_b107244#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/favorite-2012-hacks_b107244 http://allfacebook.com/?p=107244 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:32:03 +0000 Facebook Testing Free Wi-Fi After Users Check In To Businesses Looking for an attractive incentive to coax Facebook users to check in to your business? How does free Wi-Fi sound?

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/free-wi-fi-check-ins_b103648#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/free-wi-fi-check-ins_b103648 http://allfacebook.com/?p=103648 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:47:34 +0000 Hack Your Facebook (All In Good Fun) Hacking has both bad and good connotations when it comes to Facebook, but what about if Facebook users hack their own accounts, with humorous results?

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/hack-my-facebook_b100047#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/hack-my-facebook_b100047 http://allfacebook.com/?p=100047 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:29:44 +0000 Gut, Charades Win Grand Prizes In Facebook-Heroku Joint Hackathon Facebook held a joint hackathon with Heroku in San Francisco, and of the 15 projects completed over two days, two came away with grand prizes: Gut and Charades.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/gut-charades-win-grand-prizes-in-facebook-heroku-joint-hackathon_b99807#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/gut-charades-win-grand-prizes-in-facebook-heroku-joint-hackathon_b99807 http://allfacebook.com/?p=99807 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:32:40 +0000 Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Events; Users Can Choose Calendar Or List Format Facebook’s overhaul of its events feature took a big step forward Wednesday, enabling users to view their events in either a calendar or list format, with the changes originating from one of the social network’s hackathon events.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/events-calendar-list_b94242#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/events-calendar-list_b94242 http://allfacebook.com/?p=94242 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:38:05 +0000