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• November 2nd, 2012 Community Guides Coding for GOOD - SoundCloud API By Paul Osman

  The web has come a long way. We have APIs that allow developers to create amazing applications quickly, and browser technologies have advanced to the point where JavaScript / HTML and CSS are necessary tools for creating apps. Despite this, there's still a skills gap and companies are having an increasingly hard time hiring for technical positions.

  This is the main reason the folks at GOOD teamed up with the Apollo Group to launch Coding for GOOD. A series of coding lessons and final project. Participants with the top three submissions will be flown to Los Angeles to participate in a hackathon. The best of the three hacks may be offered a job at GOOD.

  We were excited when GOOD approached us about contributing a lesson on the SoundCloud API, so I sat down with them in their New York office and did a quick walkthrough on using the JavaScript SDK to create a simple SoundCloud app. Check it out, and if you know of anyone new to using web APIs, have them take a look too.

• October 2nd, 2012 Events Story Hack Boston Recap By Paul Osman

  On Saturday, we hosted Story Hack Boston along with P2PU and Mashery at the MIT Media Lab. About 50 people from content and technical backgrounds joined us to create new story telling experiences. The crowd was pretty evenly split, which made for a lot of awesome collaboration.

  

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• September 18th, 2012 Announcements The Next App Gallery Update By Amir Shaikh

  We're making some changes to how we manage our App Gallery and wanted to take some time to explain them to you, our developer community.

  The App Gallery is where we highlight interesting and useful SoundCloud powered apps and services for our users. As our developer community continues to grow, it's even more important that we keep a high bar for apps found in App Gallery. Having a high standard protects the value of being featured in App Gallery for all of our developers while giving our users a sense of confidence in the caliber of content we're showcasing there.

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• August 30th, 2012 Events Ideas How to Make a SoundCloud Powered Children's Toy By paulosman

  Just over a week ago we had our first internal hackathon at SoundCloud. You can read (and listen!) about it on our community blog or read some of the awesome press coverage the event received.

  

  We had over 60 people attend and over 20 projects were demoed. I joined a team organized by Josh Devins to build ToyBox, a children's toy that plays sounds from SoundCloud in response to physical events. The team consisted of myself, Horaci Cuevas, Josh Devins, and Oliver Hookins.

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• August 13th, 2012 Community Introducing the CloudSeeder Devkit By David Shu

  Today we're featuring a guest post from our friends at Retronyms. They've built some amazing community features into their app Tabletop using the SoundCloud API and have open sourced their CloudSeeder Devkit. This post was written for us by David Shu. David is a software engineer at the Retronyms and has worked on a number of iOS apps, including Tabletop and Dokobots. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA.

  We recently built a SoundCloud-powered community into our app Tabletop, a modular audio environment for the iPad, using the CocoaSoundCloudAPI. The project, CloudSeeder, lets users browse, stream, favorite, and comment on Tabletop tracks without ever leaving the app.

  As developers, we discovered tons of talented users in our Tabletop community. At the same time, our users found inspiration from each other and a new showcase for their creations. To share in the excitement of community creation with all developers, today we're releasing the CloudSeeder Devkit as open source on Google Code.

  

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