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- Meet This 14-Year-Old Self Taught Hacker
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- Mo' Money: Square Now Processing $3 Million A Day In Mobile Payments
| Meet This 14-Year-Old Self Taught Hacker | Top |
| In case you missed it, hackers were busy building new ideas and products at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Hackathon in New York last night. Fueled by RedBull, coffee, and massive quantities of junk food, hackers burned the midnight oil last night , preparing to show off their designs to the judges, who included VC Jeff Clavier and Canv.as founder Christopher Poole, and Google VP of Product Bradley Horowitz. We had a chance to sit down with the event’s youngest hacker; fourteen-year-old Jake Essman. Essman, a New York native, teamed up with fellow engineers Jesse Leone, William Li, and Feliks Beygel to create buyby, a shopping search engine. BuyBy is fairly simple—you use the site to find where a product is located at a store. So you could search for a ‘white t-shirt’ and the search engine will not only show you a list of online stores that have that product, but it will also show you stores that sell the product nearby your location. Essman, who has been coding since he was ten, says that he decided to come to the Hackathon at the urging of his Mom. A student at the United Nations School, Essman says that coding is a hobby, and this isn’t the first site he’s created. RantingOutLoud, a forum where anyone can can complain about anything, is a also Jake Essman project. What’s more, he essentially taught himself how to code. But for Essman, coding is still just a hobby and at this point, his career aspirations lie in the field of medicine as his goal is to become a doctor. Awww. Photo Credit /Daniel Raffel | |
| NerdNearby: Foursquare, Instagram, And Twitter With A Dash of Color | Top |
| Presentations for the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon are in full swing (tune in for the live stream! ), and we’ve already seen some very nifty nascent apps and services. One that just caught my eye is NerdNearby , a simple app that detects your current location and presents every tweet, Foursquare check-in, and Instagram photo that has been shared from that area in the recent past. In other words, it’s sort of like Color meets a jumble of geo and social APIs. There’s no signup process — the only thing you need to do is grant the site access to your location (a feature that’s supported by modern browsers on both PCs and phones). The content is presented in a simple interface pictured at right that looks quite nice in mobile browsers. Obviously it’s basic, but that’s to be expected from a site that was built in less than 24 hours. Some obvious potential improvements: support for more APIs and a way to filter which services you want to pull content from. Of course, there’s still the question of whether this content will be interesting — you’re going to run into plenty of Twitter updates that aren’t really relevant to the place they were posted from. You can follow the progress of the project on their Twitter account, NerdNearby . | |
| Mo' Money: Square Now Processing $3 Million A Day In Mobile Payments | Top |
| That was fast. Just like that Square passed $3 million in transactions processed, on a Saturday no less, according to a Tweet an hour ago by CEO Jack Dorsey. The mobile payments startup is seeing an acceleration in transaction volume. It took about 10 months from its public launch for Square to reach $1 million a day in payments going through its mobile app. Getting to $2 million a day only took about two months. And now, less than a month later, it is passing $3 million. Visa just invested , transaction volume is picking up—things are looking good for Square. COO Keith Rabois will be at Disrupt NYC. We’ll be sure to ask him what’s driving the surge in Square payments. @jack Jack Dorsey Boom. @ Square processed over $3 million today so far. Big weekend going into a bigger week. http://instagr.am/p/EjYzY/ about 18 hours ago via Instagram Reply Retweet Favorite CrunchBase Information Square Jack Dorsey Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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