Facebook World Hacker Cup second anual announced today
Facebook world hacker cup opened today
Facebook world hacker to coders and programming from around the world was opened today to challenge’s prize for $5,000.
Facebook world hacker come back to challenge hackers from around the world to try out their skills on 20 January.
To challenges, Facebook world hacker will be opened with the qualifying round for 72 hours and three rounds, where the hackers will be filtered until left 25 finalists are flown directly to the Facebook headquarters in California on March.
The winner of Facebook world hacker cup, received for $5,000 cash and may also be employed by Facebook, such as Google world hacker last year, Petr Mitrichev from Rusia, that now, he was appeared to wear a badge as Google employees.
It seems that technology-based companies like Facebook or Google’s use of intelligence hackers to find weaknesses in the system of their algorithms. This is to test the system before they release of their products into the market.
The first round Facebook world hackers start for 24 hours on 28 – 29 January and then advanced to second round contestants to select as many as 500 people.
The second session of Facebook world hackers during in the three hours on February 4 for as many as 100 contestants were selected and awarded trophies.
After that, they will be selected again on lap three the remaining of 25 peoples on 11 February. The semi-finalists selected as many as 25 people will be directly flown to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Besides that, the semi-finalists of Facebook world hacker also got the cost of replacing a visa expense to enter the U.S. for $ 100, but Facebook will not reimburse the cost of the passport.
The final season of Facebook world hacker cup will be held on March 17 for grand prize $ 5,000 for the winner, second prize for $ 2,000, third prize for $ 1000, while the fourth prize is only getting $ 100 and T shirts.
So, if you have the qualifications, you can register for Facebook world hacker cup at Facebook.
Posted on January 5, 2012 |
Facebook Felt They Have Won The Social Network Battle
No doubt, the feeling that “Facebook has won the social network battle”. It seemed to penetrate the social network, with Mark Zuckerberg said the era of connecting people – it is the social graph. That mean Facebook allows you to work or less done at this time.
In a moment of “something incredible” Facebook event on Wednesday, more than 60,000 people at the same time online office meeting room humble of society was considered, Mark Zuckerberg and his cohorts know a number of new features for social networking site.
While they may not be quite at the level of a speech as Steve Jobs, is impressive, as the regular product introductions on Facebook and the lack of tension around the announcement of the day (Skype was announced almost a week).
The increasing ubiquity of Facebook has certainly been a priority of Zuckerberg statements. It was confirmed that now, Facebook has more than 750 million active users. And share a personal story about an elderly neighbor with him Wednesday morning to discuss the event and his desire for video chat.
In the words of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is a social “infrastructure” of the Web to see. It is obvious that the greatest innovation to come not to create within its walls, but other applications that rely on this infrastructure.
Video calls via Skype is a good example, and in the coming months, it can expect new innovations of Facebook to participate.
The next five years, Mark Zuckerberg said, is built on top of the social infrastructure that has already created on Facebook.
Posted on July 7, 2011 |
