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Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager is a hacker advocate at Spotify in New York City. Before moving to NY, Andrew worked at SimpleGeo & Ning in San Francisco. Previously, he was an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive. Andrew studied print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech, where he created a student-run online news publication called Planet Blacksburg.

In 2006, Andrew interned at ESPN in Bristol, CT, working for the Sports Production team doing Javascript and SQL experiments. Prior to that, he worked at the WSLS-TV NBC 10 in Roanoke, VA, as a web intern. In his freshman year of college, Andrew worked at the local ESPN Radio station answering phone calls and writing scripts for the local afternoon talk show.

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  • The man behind the latest Twitter meme: Uberfacts

    By Andrew Mager | January 10, 2012, 8:31am PST

    Nietzsche once said, “There are no facts, only interpretations”. Kris Sanchez would say otherwise. He’s the 20-year-old guy running the immensely popular Twitter account...

  • Twitter's latest design: cleaner, richer, better

    By Andrew Mager | December 9, 2011, 9:29am PST

    I’m a huge fan of Doug Bowman’s design brain. Since he’s started working at Twitter over two and a half years ago, the site’s design, look, and feel has gotten better and...

  • Five Gmail tips that will make you an inbox ninja

    By Andrew Mager | November 4, 2011, 1:00pm PDT

    “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ~George Bernard Shaw I’m an inbox hawk. If an email sits in my inbox too long, I get...

  • Service as a service: Zaarly leads the way

    By Andrew Mager | July 22, 2011, 3:09pm PDT

    A buddy of mine left a bag of stickers, tee shirts, and his laptop power cord on a sidewalk on 9th St. in New York City. He was in a rush, and jumped in the cab, forgetting that his valuables were...

  • Housefed: a community marketplace for home-cooked meals

    By Andrew Mager | July 11, 2011, 10:56am PDT

    I love photo-sharing sites, especially when they involve food. Housefed isn’t just about sharing pictures though; you can invite random people over and literally share your meal. Think...

  • Invite your entire Facebook graph into Google Plus

    By Andrew Mager | June 29, 2011, 5:33pm PDT

    Here’s a trick to get everyone from your Facebook social graph into Google Plus: Sign up for a Yahoo! Mail account, and import all of your Facebook contacts. Click “Contacts” at...

  • Social DJing with Turntable.fm

    By Andrew Mager | May 28, 2011, 1:31pm PDT

    It’s really fun to build a tracklist of music to listen to while you work all day. Now imagine being able to play that music for an audience in a social setting. You can create channels and...

  • Live: Demos from TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day 2011

    By Andrew Mager | May 22, 2011, 8:52am PDT

    TechCrunch kicked off its second Disrupt Hack Day this morning, and it was at least 5x bigger than last year’s event. Each team gets 60 seconds to present their idea. Most of these hackers...

  • Cabana: Build iPhone apps without knowing a line of code

    By Andrew Mager | May 12, 2011, 5:58pm PDT

    The geniuses at Department of Behavior and Logic are working on one of the coolest projects I’ve seen in a while. Cabana is basically an app maker, built for designers, not coders. At the...

  • Predator: A camera that learns

    By Andrew Mager | May 7, 2011, 10:13am PDT

    Check out this video from Zdenek Kalal in Surrey, UK. He’s built an extremely smart camera that can track and recognize faces, among other things. Imagine the ideas that could come to...

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