The first hackathon was held in 1999, and had 10 developers. Nowadays, hackathons like TechCrunch Disrupt and PennApps draw over 1000 hackers. There are hackathons happening almost every day, in cities all over the world. The themes of these hackathons range from music, television, mobile development, security, civic hacking, education, tourism, and almost anything you can think of. Gracenote has been participating in hackathons all over the world. This presentation talks about the growth of hackathons, and the involvement of our developer program and API evangelists. It was presented at The State of Music Discovery event in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb 18th, 2014 (http://www.gracenote.com/events/musicdiscovery_japan2014), on the week of the first Music Hack Day in Tokyo.

1. Hackathons Are Eating The World
Ching-Wei Chen (@cweichen)
Director, Gracenote Developer Program
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2. Hackathons are…
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3. Hackathons are…
○ Usually a 24 hour event where hackers are challenged to create
something from scratch
○ A chance to innovate and push the boundaries of what is possible
with technology
○ Where developers can learn how to use new tools and APIs
○ A place for people to meet people, make friends, and have fun!
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4. The first “hackathon” in 1999 had 10 hackers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon4

5. TechCrunch Hackathon 2013
1200 Hackers
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6. Dreamforce Hackathon 2013
US$1,000,000 Prize
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7. There are hackathons everywhere, all the time, for every cause
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From http://hackerleague.org

8. There are hackathons everywhere, all the time, for every cause
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From http://hackerleague.org

9. There are hackathons everywhere, all the time, for every cause
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From http://hackerleague.org

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12. This hack was made in 24 hours by students
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http://spruceapp.herokuapp.com/

13. This hack sold to Microsoft for US$80M
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From TechCrunch Disrupt 2010, http://groupme.com

14. Gracenote @ Hackathons
Hackathon to build the
“TV of Tomorrow”
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15. Gracenote @ Hackathons
First live music hackathon in SF
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16. Gracenote @ Hackathons
Largest hackathon event in Japan
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17. Gracenote @ Hackathons
The largest music hackathon in the
world, since 2009
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18. Music Hack Day Tokyo
First Music Hack Day in Japan
Feb 22-23 @ THE TERMINAL Harajuku
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19. Gracenote API Evangelists
○ Gracenote evangelists will be on-site to
help hackers build with our APIs
○ Best hacks using our API win prizes like
portable speakers, quadcopter drones,
and hackable robots.
○ We may also build some hacks of our
own
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20. https://developer.gracenote.com
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21. Gracenote Hacks
Fuwari
○ Mood-based playlisting app with
beautiful iOS7-inspired design
○ See what moods your Facebook friends
are listening to
○ Winner of TechCrunch Tokyo Hackathon
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22. Gracenote Hacks
defCOMM
○ Multi-player game for Pebble
watch, created at AT&T Developer
Summit
○ Capture songs using Gracenote
Music Recognition API
○ Battle players around the world for
ownership of songs
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23. Follow us on Twitter for all our hackathon updates
@GracenoteDev
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