September 2011
9 posts
Project Management, Guaranteed Fun and No...
This is guest blog post by Stefan Richter on behalf of TheDeadline, a HackFwd alumnus.
People love our project management tool TheDeadline: Create tasks, share them with your co-workers and TheDeadline will keep you up-to-date on all important status changes and events. You save a lot of time because you don’t have to ask for all the information anymore.
We built TheDeadline for ourselves. My...
HackNow Winner: Luis Iván Cuende
HackNow is a contest we ran over the summer, challenging the young developers in Europe to come up with innovative, useful and novel applications or hacks. We received around 300 applications from the under-18 year old technical talent in Europe and the quality was superb.
The winner was clear. The 15-year old Luis Iván Cuende from Spain, with his distributed web-tech based desktop, Asturix On,...
HackFwd Build 07 in Berlin
We held Build 07 in Berlin over the weekend. From Thursday night to Sunday, the city was host to a crowd of geeks bent on changing the world. Friday was an internal day of presentations and workshops, and on Saturday we opened our doors to external invitees, friends, potential startups and world-class speakers. Our Build events are designed around providing our startups with the best mentoring,...
Chris Boos on Build 06
With Build 07 soon underway in Berlin, Chris Boos’s field report on the highlights of Build 06 is a nice read. In his post Chris lists his favourite presentations (with videos) and why they in particular stood out. Read his post here or catch the highlights below.
Let’s start with my favourite four presenters and their presentations here. I will list them in alphabetical order so...
Social by Design - Video from Build 06
Gareth Morris is a Partner Engineer on Facebook’s Platform Engineering team.
What does it mean to develop a product that is social by design? Gareth Morris from the Platform Engineering team at Facebook goes through the basics of using the Open Graph Protocol for including products and pages in the social graph and for tracking the performance of social plugins across sites, apps and...
Watchlater for iPhone released
Want a handy way to cache web videos for your iPhone and iPad? The much-awaited iPhone-supporting 2.0 version of the Watchlater app has just been released on the App Store, and it is free! It comes with 60 minutes of caching, so you can get a good amount of video onto your iPhone immediately.
Watchlater now supports over 40 different platforms, and has been called the “Instapaper for...
API's Whole - Video from Build 06
Josep Pujol of 3scale gave an expert talk about APIs at the Build 06 event. Josep is the latest addition to HackFwd Referrers, and as attested by the great talk below, a superb asset to the HackFwd pool of expertise. We are very happy to welcome him on board!
API extends programmatic access to your product and enables others to build on your applications. But API is about connectedness, Josep...
The Music of Delta Strike
Music is an important part of a gaming experience. While often playing second fiddle to other elements in a game, sometimes the music of a game adds a new dimension and even transcends the game.
The team at Pro3Games, the HackFwd startup behind Delta Strike, places a huge emphasis on the gaming experience. With the team overachieving themselves constantly it comes almost as no surprise to see...
The Art of the Pitch - Video from Build 06
Pierre Morsa trains presentation skills in France with Ideas on Stage and shares his experiences on startups pitching for investment.
In this talk, the basics of presenting a pitch to investors are covered by building a template for the contents of the pitch. The first tip: start with the product: unfortunately, after many pitches the first question is “so what do you do exactly?”....
