Photo Hack Day 4 Recap: Congrats Snapsplosion!
Wow, Photo Hack Day 4 was a truly awesome event! Many thanks to Aviary for running the event and to Facebook for allowing all of us to utilize their awesome facilities.
This was our second year partcipating in Photo Hack Day and we were humbled and blown away by all the happy hacking that occurred with the Walgreens QuickPrints API and SDKs. In total, there were 16 great hacks (listed below) that utilized our technology and it was a very hard decision to pick out a single winner for our $1,000 cash prize.
photo provided by @Aviary
In the end, we awarded our prize to the iPhone app Snapsplosion based on their creative integration of the QuickPrints SDK which allows for a truly unique and memorable photo product to be created and printed to your local Walgreens. We look forward to working with the Snapsplosion team over the coming weeks to help them launch their application in production and claim not only our $1,000 bonus prize, but also the hearts & minds of many photo application fans out there.
Again, any thanks to all the hacks that utilized our QuickPrints technology! You all truly made the Photo Hack Day 4 event one that we will never forget. Participating hack applications were: Cardified, Cardz, DrawOnIt, Eventbook, FakeYourTravels, Family Photobook, iTravelToo, MakeupArtist, Masqued, Mozaify, PhotoMag, Post A Pic, Postcard Pal, Rebus, Simply Email Photos and Snapsplosion, who also took the 2nd place in the overall PHD4 event prize.
Even though the Photo Hack Day event has now come & gone, interested developers who integrate our Walgreens QuickPrints API or SDK into a production app, can earn a 15% revenue share for all orders placed within your app? Learn more at /api-overview/QuickPrints or email devportal@walgreens.com for more details.
If you missed our Photo Hack Day lightning talk on Saturday morning, we have included a video along with the presentation itself. Also, check out the great PHD4 event photo wall put together by our friends from Chute at http://slidechute.com/w/7048.
Join Walgreens at Photo Hack Day 4
Bay Area developers and designers:
Join Walgreens, Facebook, Aviary, Dropbox, AMD, Foursquare
& many more great sponsors at Photo Hack Day 4!
WHO: Our friends, old and new, in the photo space
WHAT: Another full weekend of photo-centric awesomeness
WHERE: Facebook HQ in Menlo Park
WHEN: April 6-7, 2013
HOW: Register today at phd4.eventbrite.com
[About Photo Hack Day 4]
Photo Hack Day, an exciting, weekend-long coding marathon, brings together talented developers and designers to build amazing applications using web and mobile photo API's.
Teams compete to create the most inspiring and innovative apps, gunning to win big prize money, cool tech gear, and the respect and wonderment of their peers in the startup community.
The 4th in the series, Photo Hack Day 4 brings the fun back to the West Coast, this time with our friends at Facebook, to bring you the greatest Photo Hack Day yet!
[Walgreens & Photo Hack Day 4]
Walgreens will be featuring its QuickPrints API & SDKs at Photo Hack Day 4 for developer attendees to utilize within their application hacks. We will also be offering a $1,000 cash prize for the best use of QuickPrints.
Walgreens will feature multiple representatives on-hand at the event to discuss QuickPrints and our Partner Program. If you want to reach us before or at the event, feel free to send a tweet to @WalgreensAPI or email us at devportal@walgreens.com.
Walgreens is excited to be a part of this event and look forward to seeing you there! The event is free to attend, and you can register at phd4.eventbrite.com.
Introducing Flickring: A New QuickPrints Integration
The Walgreens API team would like to welcome Flickring for iPhone to our developer program family.
People love Flickring (http://flickringapp.com) because it's a powerful yet simple Flickr app for their iPhone which lets people browse, upload, and share their Flickr photos and videos with ease, and has tons of features like advanced slideshow and printing.
According to Eugene Kaneko, Co-Founder of Pixite, "We love how QuickPrints makes is it super easy to get high quality prints of your favorite Flickr photos. It's the missing link for people who have tons of digital photos but love the look and feel of actual prints."
Download the Flickring iPhone app today from the Apple App Store.
Health 2.0 Chicago Meetup: Walgreens Rx API (03/20/13)
Presentation at Health 2.0 Chicago Meetup on March 20, 2013 by Sr. Product Manager Joe Rago regarding the Walgreens Prescription API.
Introducing OnTimeRx: A New Prescription API Partner
We are happy to announce that OnTimeRx® has now integrated the Walgreens Prescription API into their Free & Pro iPhone applications.
OnTimeRx (http://www.ontimerx.com) is a mature, user-friendly, standalone reminder and health manager app, designed by a pharmacist. The patent pending OnTimeRx medication reminder set up is highly intuitive, making it easy for non-tech patients to set up and adhere to simple or complex medication schedules. With automatic dose logging, patients can easily monitor their own compliance rate. Automatic popup alerts display when a remaining Days Supply is 5 days or less.
Now a “Refill at Walgreens” button is also displayed for Walgreens customers. A simple tap on that button orders Walgreens prescription refills directly from this app on the patient’s iOS device. Adding this convenience feature not only enhances OnTimeRx, it also helps patients improve adherence by helping them maintain adequate medication supplies.
Download the OnTimeRx Free and OnTimeRx Pro application for iPhone today!
