Infographic: NYC BigApps Winners and Highlights
NYC Media Lab Launches Media Mash
NYC Media Lab today launched Media Mash, a competition for developers and students to mash up data from the city’s top media and tech companies to create new insights, experiences, and business models.
Open to individuals and organizations with fewer than 50 employees in the U.S., Media Mash promotes collaboration between the media industry and the developer community to drive innovation. Judges will award $10,000 in prizes in professional and student categories for apps that run on the web, desktop computers, tablets, or mobile phones. Resources available to developers include open APIs, and feeds from bit.ly, CBS Sports Fantasy, Etsy, Facebook, foursquare, The New York Times, PBS, Rolling Stone, Tumblr, and others. More info about Media Mash here.
NYC Media Lab connects companies seeking to advance new media technologies with academic institutions and was launched by NYCEDC, NYU-Poly, and Columbia Unviersity to tackle the big questions facing the media industry today, with the goal of generating research, knowledge transfer, talent development, R&D, and new business models. Find out more about NYCEDC’s initiatives to support the media and emerging technology industry in NYC.
I’ve been involved with NYC BigApps since its creation three years ago. It’s a great program. NYC opens up some of its data sources to developers who use the data to build new mobile and web apps. The judges vote on them (I’m one of the judges) and there are prizes awareded which total $50,000. A number of startups have come out of this program and I’ve met quite a few great developers through this effort.
Hacking Green Data
Go green with the Cleanweb Hackathon this weekend, where developers will hack together apps using energy and environmental data. The event kicks off Friday night with an icebreaker at the New York Academy of the Sciences, continues Saturday with an all-day, all-night hackathon at NYU ITP, and concludes Sunday with demos and an awards presentation.
The list of judges includes Fred Wilson, Principal of Union Square Ventures; Rachel Sterne, NYC Chief Digital Officer; Frank Rimalovski, Managing Director, NYU Innovation Venture Fund; Evan Korth, Co-founder of HackNY; Mike Shimazu, Innovation and Business Development at NYSERDA; and Maria Gotsch, President and CEO at the New York City Investment Fund. Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer, will also join as a special guest.
Register today for the Cleanweb Hackathon and explore the APIs and datasets available.
