The Redline Challenge
How a three-hour pub crawl website used Twitter location hashtags, Twitpic photos, and email-to-SMS messaging to provide live updates and contact options.
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Notes on code, startups, and the decisions behind the software. From our team in Cambridge, MA.
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internOwl Launched!
The launch of internOwl, a site helping students research and find internships, initially focused on Massachusetts and planned to offer insights into internship quality.
Read the postFOSS Saturday: sfFbConnectGuardPlugin - sfGuard meets FB Connect
How sfFbConnectGuardPlugin links Facebook Connect identities to sfGuard users and captures a validated email address by triggering the connection flow manually.
Read the postFOSS Fridays: Nada
A brief FOSS Fridays update says no new project is ready yet, while hinting that something fun is in development.
Read the postWords of Congress: Fun with Hadoop
How Hadoop MapReduce processes XML bills from the 111th U.S. Congress, including custom input parsing, word-frequency counting, and distributed setup lessons.
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