Hacks and Hackers Bang Out 12 iPad Apps Over the Weekend
Journalists and computer programmers teamed up in San Francisco over the weekend to see what kind of news-related iPad apps they could come up with in the space of 48 hours. Modeled on 48-hour film projects, the competition—called Hacks/Hackers Unite—came up with 12 different apps, including winner "Who's Reppin' Me?" which uses geolocation to identify who your representatives are and then pull in news stories about them and allow you to communicate with them via Twitter.
The 80 competitors also produced a news app for kids, tools to create news quizzes, and tools for photographers to create slideshows.
The competition was the brainchild of Burt Herman, a former Stanford Knight Fellow, who several months ago started hosting Hacks/Hackers meetups in the Bay Area to get journalists and technologists talking together.
