Finally got a chance to catch a breath of New York air after spending most of last week in Boston at Mashup Camp 3.
Mashup Camp is an unconference-style event which brings together great minds in the Internet software community and focuses on discussing and creating interoperable services. A good example of a web mashup is an application which utilizes data from several different services and coherently presents this information in a useful way.
The event also features a competition where the attendees have a chance to present their work to small groups of people spending just a few minutes with each group. Afterwards the other attendees can give the creator a wooden nickel as a sign of approval. The project with the most wooden nickels wins.
This year, Hype Machine scored the first place, TourFilter came in second and DestinSharks.com came in third along with a few other third-place winners.
Lots of other cool stuff presented, good music-related mashups: Gigul8r, Gruvr (save for the names) as well as some amazing data manipulating, mind-melting tools like Dapper. Full list here.
Naturally, since this is an event filled with techies, there is plenty written about it on the blogs and in photos on Flickr.
This was tons of fun!
Congratulations Anthony!
Shall we send some Buckfast over for you to celebrate
January 24, 2007 @ 4:33 am
great to meet you, Anthony. psyched to have finally voted for a winner
hope to see you at the next Mashup Camp iteration.
January 24, 2007 @ 9:20 am
oh, and let me know if there’s anything i can do to help w/ the Hype Machine, even if it’s just pasting a sticker on the laptop.
January 24, 2007 @ 9:21 am
[...] Machine Shop » The Hype Machine Wins Best of Mashup Camp 3 could not be more psyched that Anthony won - LOVE the Hype Machine (tags: HypeMachine Volodkin MashupCamp Boston MIT) [...]
January 25, 2007 @ 12:28 am
Good job, do you get to keep these nickels or do they give you some other kind of prize?
January 26, 2007 @ 9:07 pm
I had a great time reading on my web 2.0 geek friends’ blogs about their fantastic discovery of hypemachine at mashup camp - funny cause I thought it was like an institution. Congrats have long been due..
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January 30, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
[...] If you didn’t believe me when I first told you about cool The Hype Machine was, didn’t pay attention when they were named the best mashup of Mashup Camp 3, maybe Jason Calacanis’ description of it as Napster 3.0 will grab you. Oh, and for the Yubnub users in the audience, The Hype Machine is in there. Command is ‘hype’. [...]
February 1, 2007 @ 8:14 pm
They alighted fromthe buses. . If you re education would harry potter movie pass.
October 3, 2007 @ 11:15 am