My First Time Running a Hackathon I’ve planned events before – but never anything like this 48-hour marathon spanning 200 participants across 3 continents and 2 time zones! When I was given the opportunity I was extremely excited, but at the same time somewhat anxious. Would I succeed in matching everyone’s energy and meeting their expectations? The task was daunting, but I took it slow and steady, step by step. First, I designed (with help from our talented graphic designer) a cool and eye-catching theme that would decorate all of our hackathon materials. Decorating slide decks, headers, banners, and t-shirts, our hackathon branding quickly became an R&D favorite. With the event only a month away, we held the official Taboola R&D Hackathon kickoff. Immediately, all of our participants – from engineers to designers to managers – began to gather in groups and cultivate project ideas. To encourage creativity and tech […]
Over 100 Taboolars in LA and TLV participated in our first global hackathon—we saw mobile apps, deep learning to data visualization tools & even robots.
Knowledge sharing is critical for every company that wants to grow and improve. The bigger the company – the harder it gets. Inefficiency, a lack of alignment within your peers, difficulty training new workers – you name it. In this post we will take a look at the existing methods for knowledge sharing. How they can’t keep up with growth and fast paced changes, and why people are your best resource for knowledge. What is Knowledge? In general, there are three main types of knowledge that need to be shared in a software company – Technical Knowledge, Product Knowledge and Business Knowledge. When a new employee begins their job, most companies will help them to learn, using some of the more traditional methods to share knowledge: Learn from others – via frontal training or assigning a mentor Allow Self learning – online course, or from the company’s knowledge center (Atlassian, […]
Imagine you’re walking down the street and you see a nice car you’re thinking of buying. Just by pointing your phone camera, you can see relevant content about that car. How cool is that?! That was our team’s idea that awarded us first place in the recent Taboola R&D hackathon aptly named – Taboola Zoom! Every year Taboola holds a global R&D hackathon for its 350+ engineers aimed at creating ideas for cool potential products or just some fun experiments in general. This year, 33 teams worked for 36 hours to come up with ideas that are both awesome and helpful to Taboola. Some of the highlights included a tool that can accurately predict the users’ gender based on their browsing activity and an integration to social networks for Taboola Feed. Our team decided to create an AR (Augmented Reality) application that allows a user to get content recommendations, […]
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How one college student helped define the future of VR in Taboola’s engineering challenge. The Taboola VR Challenge was held in Los Angeles (LA).
During my closing keynote presentation at LA Hacks, I had a surprise announcement: the launch of our first-ever Taboola Virtual Reality Challenge!
Taboola was very excited to sponsor the recent Hacktech Hackathon at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA.