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A month ago Kwwika, a real-time data streaming service provider annonced a competition to build a mash up that uses their World Cup 2010 Twitter streams. I’ve decided to enter the competition and visualize the stream of tweets in a fun and engaging way. As the competition closed on 11th July, my entry was selected [...]

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Invited to the Kairos Society Global Summit!

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

It has been a great honour that I a month and a half ago I have been invited to become a member of the Kairos Society and also attend their annual summit mid April this year. Kairos Society is an invite-only foundation aimed to unite the world’s brightest young minds. Each year they hold a [...]

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It’s been a week since we’ve come home from the Innovation Accelerator in Mountain View. This is the trip that we’ve won on the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Paris, last summer, as special prize. It’s been a great week – we’ve attended numerous priceless sessions and gained a peek into the entrepreneurial life in Silicon [...]

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Qualified for ITech Challenge National Finals!

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

With two of my friends at the Budapest University of Technology we’ve entered the ITech Challenge management competiton (our chosen team name is Drunk Puppies ). This competiton is about managing an IT firm and making most profits possible; this year each team had to manage a telecommunications company. I would actually say that the [...]

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I still can’t believe it but it’s true: with team Digitalmania, Hungary we’ve won 3rd place on the Microsoft Imagine Cup world finals in Paris and were one of the 6 teams to receive the Innovation Accelerator prize in the main category, Software Design!! It’s amazing… we are also the first Hungarian team to make [...]

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The Win The Web 24 hours coding competition was held last Saturday. The competition was organized by Microsoft Hungary and during the 24 hours teams of 3 had to complete a larger and three smaller web projects using any technology they preferred. I entered with two of my colleagues from work. The main task was to create a [...]

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Imagine Cup Hungary Winners!

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

The Imagine Cup Hungary finals were held last week at Microsoft headquarters in Budapest. This year’s topic was Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment and there were multiple categories one could enter (including algorithm, games, short film and some other). We’ve entered the “main” category, Software Design. In this category the winners [...]

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