For those of you who couldn’t attend the Hackers & Founders / Factual hackathon last weekend, we thought we’d post a few choice clips of the weekend’s talks/events for your enjoyment. On Saturday, Pete Warden moderated a stellar panel that focused on local data. Among other things, the panelists discussed what applications they’d like to see [...]

This past weekend, Factual hosted a terrific open data hackathon at the Hacker Dojo in partnership with Hackers & Founders. For two days, a number of developers worked around the clock, either individually or in teams, to build applications using Factual data. (Occasionally taking breaks to partake of the free food and beer.) At the [...]

The wait is over, thanks to all who participated and to Factual for co-sponsoring this contest. Without further ado, the winners: First place (iPad 2 + smart cover!) goes to Jason Wei with Nom Nom, an Android app. Source code available here. Nom Nom is a social version of Yelp – it allows users to [...]