Hackaway

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Saturday morning. A group from Aftonbladet and Omni is on the beautiful island Ekskäret in the Stockholm archipelago together with 40 external creatives and developers. This is Hackaway, a weekend hackathon. And the challenge is to do some new cool stuff around news, journalism and other relevant areas for Schibsted Publishing. Read more about the event on hackaway.com.

A couple of hours ago Martina started the 24 hour hackathon by ringing the hack-bell. We can’t wait to see what everybody’s building!

Update: Read about the demo here!

Here are some pictures from the hack-island.

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