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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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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.
Follow @mager on Twitter.
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The man behind the latest Twitter meme: Uberfacts
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 @Uberfacts. These facts...
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Twitter's latest design: cleaner, richer, better
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 better. Yesterday, they...
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Five Gmail tips that will make you an inbox ninja
"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 anxious. I love prompt...
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Service as a service: Zaarly leads the way
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...
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Housefed: a community marketplace for home-cooked meals
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 AirBnb...
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Invite your entire Facebook graph into Google Plus
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 the top, and...
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Social DJing with Turntable.fm
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...
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Live: Demos from TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day 2011
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 have...
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Cabana: Build iPhone apps without knowing a line of code
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 Launch...
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Predator: A camera that learns
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 fruition...
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Office Tour: EmergeMemphis
The kind folks at Seed Hatchery invited me to MobileCampMemphis this weekend, and I want to show you some pictures of EmergeMemphis, an incubator in downtown Memphis for tech startups. A couple...
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PepsiCo and Instagram team up for SxSW
Instagram, my favorite photo-sharing app on the iPhone, just teamed up with PepsiCo for a South by Southwest promo called Brisk Pics. Users have been submitting their best photos to Instagram...
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Fashism: Unbiased fashion advice on the fly
One of the apps I've been playing with lately is called Fashism. It allows you to post a "look" or photo of yourself (or a friend), and people get to comment and rate your wardrobe. It's addicting...
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Live: The Crunchies 2010
This blog post is breathing. It's being updated every few minutes, or as fast as I can hit save. Enjoy the live blogging! Techcrunch put on a great show this evening at the Exploratorium in San...
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fflick: The best social movie recommendation site
Ever since I had a beta invite, I have been wanting to interview the founder and CEO of fflick. Kurt Wilms has built one of the coolest, yet simplest, sites I've used in a while. Have you ever...
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Maximizing the timeliness of your tweets
Dan Martell and Ethan Bloch have teamed up to create a new app called Timely, that tells you the best times to tweet during the day so that the maximum amount of people will see your message....
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Facebook's speedy slideshow photo viewer
Check out this screenshot of Facebook's new slideshow photo viewer: There is a popup black modal that the photo sits on. It's also super fast. Arrowing through a slideshow is like flipping...
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Facebook adds better security: tracks the location of your logins
Yesterday I noticed that Facebook added a new section to my settings page: the ability to keep track of every time and place I've logged in. Every time you login to Facebook, they try to...
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Robots speak up and defend global warming
This is a guest post by Jason Rothman. He has been posting a lot lately on my blog, and you guys seem to be happy with it, so here's another post! When I was five, my parents took me to a fair...
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Eight burning questions with Matt Hunter, founder of TextSlide
This is a guest post by Jason Rothman and follows the format of a Q&A (one of my favorite type of posts). Enjoy, and please leave feedback in the comments below. Matt Hunter developed TextSlide...
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