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May 23, 2011 12:22 am GMT
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Meet This 14-Year-Old Self Taught Hacker
In case you missed it, hackers were busy building new ideas and products at TechCrunch Disrupt's Hackathon in New York last night. Fueled by RedBull, coffee, and massive quantities of junk food, hackers burned the midnight oil last night, preparing to show off their designs to the judges, who included VC Jeff Clavier and Canv.as founder Christopher Poole, and VP of Product Bradley Horowitz. We had a chance to sit down with the event's youngest hacker; fourteen-year-old Jake Essman. Essman, a New York native, teamed up with fellow engineers Jesse Leone, William Li, and Feliks Beygel to create buyby, a shopping search engine. BuyBy is fairly simple"you use the site to find where a product is located at a store. So you could search for a 'white t-shirt' and the search engine will not only show you a list of online stores that have that product, but it will also show you stores that sell the product nearby your location.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ELyu38z3pDo/
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