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Using this at startup weekend / hackathons to involve the entire audience in the judging process for peoples choice would be amazing
Re:Startup Australia on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:45PM (#5378811)
Re:Startup Australia on Thursday March 14, 2013 @09:43PM (#5378803)
The temporary site for the group can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/siliconbeachproject/

It includes access to the data used during the workshop

We're currently using MPMoviePlayer but we have a multiplatform C++ streaming/preload/caching library we're working on as we'd like something super performant that we can use on winpho/android & ios
Ta for the feedback, we've heard a lot of feedback that Apple prefer to use the black iPhone in third party promotional material. For our green/white theme we use everywhere else though we find the white iPhone fits best for us. I'm sure there's analytics out there that would prove one way or the other, would be interesting to see some hard data on
Each app is native with a .NET backend on Azure, we use blog storage for the media and a custom TTS engine.
Re:How To Build A Kick-Ass Growth Team on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @07:50AM (#5176071)
Sharing what you look for in a growth hacker and what questions to ask is very useful as many people claim they are great at "growth hacking".

My biggest insight from this is that growth hackers need to be mathematical and not marketing gurus.

Great article! Keep em coming

Re:Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @07:47AM (#5096806)
SoundGecko plus tldr.io would be awesome
Re:Microsoft's Ajax CDN tumbles worldwide on Thursday January 03, 2013 @09:49AM (#5002536)
It looks like the CDN still works from Australia but is down almost everywhere else