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		<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:57:49 GMT" ctSaves="10" flPreview="false" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="926" text="11 free hackathon ideas" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/08/11FreeHackathonIdeas.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.42" versionServer="0.42" whenLastSave="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:00:14 GMT">
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:45:53 GMT" pgfnum="6021" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/04/08/espresso.jpg&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;115&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named espresso.jpg&quot;&gt;Academic hackathons are the rage, and there's one coming up &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/hackny/spring2011_hackathon/wiki/Logistics&quot;&gt;this weekend at NYU&lt;/a&gt;. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:46:21 GMT" pgfnum="6022" text="Unfortunately, imho of course, the commercial APIs are over-represented and open formats and protocols are not represented at all. RSS will &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/04/thingsRssCantDo.html&quot;&gt;never&lt;/a&gt; offer you a job or fund your startup, but -- it might keep the Internet free so we'll still be interested in entrepreneurship for the Class of 2020 and beyond. You always have to keep putting back. And as the Twitter developers will tell you, the waters that surround big battleships and aircraft carriers can be very turbulent. As they say, when an 800-pound gorilla sneezes, you're the one with boogers all over you. :-)"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:48:27 GMT" pgfnum="6023" text="That's why I like platforms without platform vendors. There's no one to change the rules, decide that you've been copying them when they've been copying you. To deprecate the APIs that you've invested your life savings in. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:49:29 GMT" pgfnum="6025" text="Okay anyway, enough motivation."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:48:49 GMT" pgfnum="6024" text="The 11 free ideas are: "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:50:03 GMT" pgfnum="6026" text="1. Share Your OPML."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:50:10 GMT" pgfnum="6027" text="2. Beautiful River."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:50:14 GMT" pgfnum="6028" text="3. UI for FeedHose."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:51:07 GMT" pgfnum="6031" text="4. Centralized subscription manager."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:50:37 GMT" pgfnum="6029" text="5. Hack status.net so we can template it."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:50:54 GMT" pgfnum="6030" text="6. What if Readability and Instapaper didn't have to scrape?"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:51:41 GMT" pgfnum="6032" text="7. REST interface for DNS."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:51:50 GMT" pgfnum="6033" text="8. Open source Dropbox clone."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:53:47 GMT" pgfnum="6037" text="9. Drop-dead simple static hosting."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:53:54 GMT" pgfnum="6038" text="10. University news."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:54:04 GMT" pgfnum="6039" text="11. Make Apache an end-user product."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:51:51 GMT" pgfnum="6034" text="All are explained in more depth in two bits I wrote last fall. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:52:26 GMT" pgfnum="6035" text="1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2010/10/08/ideasForAnAcademicHackatho.html&quot;&gt;Seven free project ideas for an academic hackathon&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:52:37 GMT" pgfnum="6036" text="2. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/stories/2010/10/08/4MoreFreeProjectIdeasForYo.html&quot;&gt;Four more free ideas for your next hackathon.&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:54:25 GMT" pgfnum="6040" text="Now, if you're interested in doing one of these projects at this weekend's hackathon at NYU, post a comment here. I live a few blocks away so I can help you, and I will, with any of these projects. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:01:31 GMT" pgfnum="6041" text="The cool thing about them, is that they all make the Internet better and more useful &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; more open, and they are open-ended. They aren't done when the weekend is over. Because -- they're useful. :-)"></outline>
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