April 28th - May 3rd, 2008 | OpenSocial Week: Making the Web Better by Making it More Social
The OpenSocial Week, organized by Globant and Google, received more than 700 people on the events held from April 28th to May 3rd:
- Tech Talks in different universities (Unicen from Tandil, ITBA, UTN, UADE, UCEMA, UBA)
- Event Social Network for Marketers, for Marketing Executives. More than 350 experts came to the pub Bahrein to learn about social networks as a promotion and marketing tool.
- OpenSocial Hackathon, the first Hackathon ever held in Argentina. During the day, more than 100 developers built applications based on OpenSocial.
OpenSocial Hackathon winners
During the Hackathon held on Saturday, May 3rd, more than 100 developers created applications based on OpenSocial. Agustín Baretto, the team formed by Martín Billelo and Maximiliano Ríos, and the one formed by Federico Adad and Martín Conte were the winners of the first Hackathon ever held in Argentina. They were rewarded with ipods and a balloon trip for building these applications:
• 1st place: Agustín Baretto with “Mobile Agenda”, an application that allows the users to send text messages to cell phones through social networks.
• 2nd place: Martín Billelo and Maximiliano Ríos with “Prode”, an application to bet on soccer forecasts.
• 3rd place: Federico Abad and martin Conte with “Mirador”, an application to let users talk via web-cam
More information on www.globant.com/opensocialweek
