Tools of the CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon

by Kin Lane on 25 Apr, 2012

We have a pretty awesome line-up of tools, platforms and APIs for people to use when building their local web and mobile apps this weekend at the CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon:

3Scale (@3Scale) - A Plug & Play Cloud based API Management Infrastructure for Developers, Startups, SMBs and Enterprises to securely open, control, manage and monetize their API to 3rd parties.
CityGrid (@CityGridAPITeam) - Places, offers, reviews APIs and mobile, web and custom advertising with places that pay.
CloudyRec (@Cloudyrec) - CloudyRec is a mobile app scaffolding engine with integrated Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS).
Factual (@Factual) - Places, Products, Health, Education, Government and Entertainment accessible via database and API, with a Resolve API providing places intelligence and Crosswalk API identifying places across multiple systems like Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook.
GeoCoda (@GeocodaHQ) - Simple Geocoding API providing information about any U.S. address via an HTTP API, and a spatial database to store and manage location-based information.
IPGP (@IPlookup) - IPGP is a site that lets users lookup the location of their site's visitors based on their IP addresses.
Iron.io (@Getiron) - Iron.io provides massively scalable cloud application services: IronWorker, a massively parallel worker platform and IronMQ is an elastic message queue as a service.
Jeppesen (@JeppesenJP) - Jeppesen Journey Planner is a cost effective way to integrate public transit information into your own website or mobile application.
Socrata (@Socrata)- Open Data Services for federal, state, and local governments to dramatically improve the reach, usability and social utility of their public information assets.
Spire.io (@Spireio) - A real-time messaging service as the first in a set of hosted, secure, and scalable APIs built for mobile and web application development.
Tiggzi (@tiggziapps) - Cloud-based Builder for HTML5, jQuery Mobile, and PhoneGap Apps, allowing connection to REST APIs, and Export for Android, iOS, or Mobile Web.
Verious (@Veriously) - A marketplace for mobile application components, enabling iOS and Android developers to license pre-built, pre-tested libraries to accelerate time-to-market, access 3rd-party platforms and increase in-app monetization.