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The blog of Gergely Orosz on IT related topics: web, software design, .NET, PHP and the rest. Follow me @gergelyorosz on Twitter.

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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I’ve created TweetForYourTeam just a week ago and have just added a major update with a couple of fun features. Cheer By a Single Click In the original version of TweetForYourTeam one was able to engage in cheering for or against a team by sending a tweet to Twitter. In the current update an easier [...]

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This World Cup has been exciting for me not just because of the great games but also because during the group stages I’ve been building a cool real time spectator monitoring application for it: Tweet For Your Team (powered by Kwwika real time data services). What does it do? The application streams tweets live from [...]

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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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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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