Hitesh Parashar summarizes it in one word! Miraculous!
How teams are formed and innovate and create new apps within a weekend is a miracle. 57 teams were formed, 40 launched live apps and these are the three winners at the Google GTUGCampOut Hackathon event.
I found it striking that all three are developers of my Bay Area Facebook Meetup, excited to try out Google Wave at the GTUGCampout event, innovative developers, early adopters of the platform world.
Hiresh Pareshar (@wittyone) made Poppywave as a Robot inspired to teamup with Nutshellmail Facebook App Team
His team includes: @pcrampton, @vanriper, @samanticseed,@davidlyman,@elliston, @davidelliston, @prathapnirmal and @kewaljit
Solomon Sung Wu Videowave app came from Facebook world
Audrey is a rare female developer I see at hackathons. I first met her when organizing WeekendApps -Opensocial at Google where she was part of the team that developer Fluffy Puffy Pets.
Last weekend Audrey developers an app and became the the 3rd price winner at GTUGcampout at Google Mountainview for her Google Wave app called Cuteboxes. 57 apps were bult, 40 launched on Sunday night.
I am equally inspired by yentas of different local regions who set out to create a silicon valley like innovative ecosystem for tech entrepreneurs to learn, support and grow together.
One such person I met me fr Venezuala at the 140conf the twitter conference and we promised to work together on my new pet project to create twitter meetups worldwide. I am unable to locate him on twitter, do you know him. pl help connect us back. He was on a whirlwind tour to various countries to help create Silicon Valley like environment in Latin America.
Steve Dementer has been covered by CNN for making $250K within 8 weeks of launching Trism on Iphone.
Do you know the real story of how Steve built himself focusing on his dreams. He came from poverty through finding his place to follow a dream. He shared this honest story as keynote of IphoneDevCamp3.
Raven Zachary is bright, motivated, an organizer but more important a mentor.
I can relate to some of what drives developer event organizers. Its sheer amazement to be surrounded by raw creativity and help build structure with networking user groups, barcamps and meetups to create environments where innovators iterate to build real businesses.
I knew Raven as the developer behind the Obama Iphone App. I met Raven at IphoneDevCamp3 at Yahoo. Everywhere I heard from iphone developers how he encouraged them to build on iphone. All this self-motivated with no help from Apple. Inspiring!
Adarsh Pallian is a force to reckon! He spins out tons of app ideas and executes them at warp speed.
Adarsh built chart.ly that fit so perfectly with Stock reporting so he merged it with Howard Lindzon’s Stocktwits. Next Adarsh spun out IamBIGontwitter.com , a HotORNot like app for twitter.
Does it sound strange that Kyle Sollenberger started a twitter app to help his facebook app?
That is a pattern I see where developers migrate from one app ecosystem to another focused on solving a problem for themselves. Earlier we heard a similar story from ChatterMonkey
Cotweet has used twitterville community to reach the early adopters of brands to help them build and scale their product.
Update: Co-tweet raised $1.1 yday. Also they are based out of Pennsylvania and are moving to silicon valley.
It takes a certain type of geek to attend WhereCamp, especially if you work for a large company like Google. These are the people who go out look for new innovations and provide integrations and adaptions.
I met Tom Brown of Google Transit team at WhereCamp 2009. They are planning more real time access.
140conf was an amazing collection of minds, each with a unique voice in all areas of life using twitter for real-time conversations across a diverse geo, beliefs, passions and walks of lives.
There were many twitter app entrepreneurs, many using twitter as their platform, many connecting across the web, desktop and into other twitter apps. What was common was their passion and entrepreneurial energy!
Chatterbox had the best marketing give away with their squealing monkey. Founder Todd Clayton shared his story of how his team bootstrapped with consulting work to build out chatterbox with a passion to help us make sense of twitter data streams for brands.
Chatterbox started with a facebook app called “I have kids” and now has Chatterbox on twitter for brands. Classic example of organically scaling and growing in social app space! I love it!
