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We Came, We Saw, We Hacked #TCDisruptBJ |
What fuels Silicon Valley is a never ending desire to solve problems, make things work and get things done, no matter what the obstacles. If anything is testament to the universality of this spirit, it is the emergence of a fervent strain of entrepreneurship in China -- most recently evidenced by the 46 hacker teams that poured their hearts and minds into their computers at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon.
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Siri Ported To iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G |
In a moment as historic as Alexander Bell's call to his assistant, an iPhone hacker wrote on Twitter that he had successfully ported Siri to the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. He wrote "Actually, it just worked," informing the world that he had completely ported Siri to the iPhone 4 and that more versions are on the way.
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Introducing The First TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing Hackathon Winners |
 Between bridging the translation gap, the lack of and then abundance of morning coffee, collective Internet struggles and the many many hacks using TianJi's ("the LinkedIn of China") API, the TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing Hackathon just happened, and it was nothing short of amazing.
Around 300 hackers signed on to spend 24 hours together, and 100 actually braved a night full of spotty connectivity and vegetable noodles in order to present their hacks at 11:00 am Beijing time. Each team was given a minute to show their stuff in front of the multi-lingual audience and judges.
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Watch TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing Hackathon Live |
Ni hao! It's now morning and all of us here at the Disrupt Beijing Hackathon are somehow awake. We've got around 50 survivors of a grueling night spent coding about to take the stage and present the fruits of their labors, the excitement is palpable.
For the many of you not in China, you can (miraculously) watch the very first ever international Disrupt hackathon on the livestream above.
Good times.
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Classy: Google Is Running Zagat Ads Against Mobile Searches For “Yelp” |
 If you search for "Yelp" on Google from your mobile phone the top paid result, even above the organic result to Yelp.com, takes you to Zagat. While it is a common practice for companies to advertise against their competitors' names in search advertising, in this case it is Google itself which is bidding for that search term and taking the top spot. A classy move.
Google bought Zagat last September to shore up its local reviews for Google Places, which is its answer to Yelp. Google Places and Yelp have a contentious history, with Google borrowing liberally from yelp to help build up its local directory. Now with Zagat, Google finally has a large corpus if its own review, in addition to the ones people are slowly adding to Google Places. By redirecting some of the people who are looking for Yelp to Zagat, Google is keeping up its pattern of punching Yelp in the face every chance it gets.
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