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Posted by Trevor-KleinThe Moz Blog is built to help you all become better marketers. We couldn't possibly succeed in that goal if we didn't have a good sense for who you are and what you'd like to (and need to) see, so we did what anyone would do to get that sense: ask. This summer, we released a survey to ask you all about yourselves, your work, and your thoughts about the Moz Blog. This is the second time we've done this in the last several years, which makes these results all the more exciting—now we hav... →

PocketWatch was built today at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2015 Hackathon by a team of five brand-new programmers. PocketWatch is an easy, free way to keep tabs on friends and family who you might not talk to everyday, but would want to know if their region was at risk of a major weather event. Read More... →

WeChat bots are huge in China. The one Microsoft runs on China’s most popular messaging app has 20 million followers alone — and it is a cult hero — which shows that messaging isn’t just about chatting to friends. Why not use it to find a job or practice your interview technique? That’s what Jobot, a creation from this weekend’s TechCrunch Disrupt… Read More... →

It’s been a long night at Pier 70 in San Francisco. Yesterday, hundreds of hackers spent the day in front of their laptops even though it was a beautiful Summer day. That’s because they all took part in my favorite competition — the Disrupt SF Hackathon. Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were regular hackers. Their challenge was to… Read More... →

People with mood disorders like depression or anxiety are often encouraged to record their emotions in a notebook or app. That often starts to feel tedious, however, especially since many mood trackers don’t really return a lot of insight. Hack My Mood, presented at Disrupt Hackathon today by Allison Nelson, wants to give people information they can use to improve their mental health… Read More... →

BOSTON (by Jim Finkle, Reuters) — Apple Inc said on Sunday it is cleaning up its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software outlet. The company disclosed the effort after several cyber security firms reported finding a malicious program dubbed XcodeGhost that […]... →

I’ll admit it: Sometimes a mean or pushy email can ruin my whole morning, especially if it’s the very first thing I see. It seems like JeanCarl Bisson (a technical evangelist for IBM) and Adarsh Uppula (co-founder at hiring startup Gogohire) have had this problem, too. That’s why they built a service called Good Email Club at this weekend’s TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. Read More... →

Ever emerged from a Netflix marathon in a brainfog? Been tempted to set things on fire after an hour of reading stupid Facebook statuses? Felt surprisingly refreshed after pinning mason jar salad recipes on Pinterest and thought “hey, I should do that again!” BrainPal combines data from consumer EEG headbands and the Cloudbrain API to show you how the apps you spend the most time… Read More... →

Driving is so often an emotional affair. Even the mildest mannered people can turn into aggressive monsters when put behind a steering wheel. At TechCrunch Disrupt’s Hackathon today we saw a fun but interesting approach to cooling down hot-heads using wearable tech and music. Read More... →

Not every app here at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon has its roots in ideas of quantum entanglement and the ineffable quality of human connection, but that’s what drove Freddie Iboy and his coding partner Alec Garcia to build Entangled. Read More... →

For anyone who’s ever Googled “what happens when you take [prescription drug] with [other prescription drug],” idodrugs.club is a hack that gives you an answer based on scientific research. You know, so you don’t have to rely on that sketchy Reddit post. Juan M. Banda, a biomedical informatics researcher at Stanford, has created a tool that helps patients and… Read More... →

Jake Brewer, an avid cyclist and a senior policy advisor to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, passed away during a charity bike ride this weekend. Brewer, 34, of Alexandria, died Saturday afternoon when his bicycle went out of control at a sharp curve while on a two-day, 150-mile bike ride to cure cancer, the Washington Post reported. Brewer worked on several tech initiatives and… Read More... →

Clinical trials landed in the tech spotlight earlier this year when Apple launched an iOS software framework to let users sign up for medical trials. The challenge generally for medical researchers is signing the right people up to studies with very specific criteria for participants. On one level that’s a matching problem — which suggests technology can help. Read More... →

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Two of the youngest co-founders to take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Hackathon on Sunday were Kieran Mann, 9, and Rohan Chopra, 10. The duo impressed the crowd as they delivered a killer pitch for their app, Beanstocks, an app that allows parents to coordinate allowances and payments for their kids that are attached to real bank accounts. Beanstocks has versions for both… Read More... →

Even if you don’t care about politics, news about Donald Trump is pretty unavoidable. TrumpThis! Club thinks if you have to listen to Trump, you should at least be able to have fun while you do. The team wants to turn presidential debates into drinking games. Each player is given a button, and every time Trump says something stupid, you press your button. The last player to push the… Read More... →

OPINION: The rumors are true: Drake and Future will release a long-rumored and hotly-anticipated mixtape exclusively through iTunes and Apple Music tonight. It’s still a big deal even if you’re not a particularly big fan of Drake or Future. The collaborative album, titled What a Time to Be Alive, will stream on Beats 1 Radio at 6 […]... →

We saw a couple of car hacks during our Disrupt SF hackathon today. One that stood out for me was BetterDriver.Club. Mike and Peter Tuszynski, two brothers who flew in all the way from Poland to participate in the event, had originally planned to build a healthcare app. But after seeing the $149 Vinli OBD-II plug, which combines an LTE hotspot with the ability to read data from a… Read More... →

Anari Sengbe hopped up on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2015 Hackathon stage today to present an app with an aim to help ganja consumers enjoy smoking weed and eating at the same time. Enter FoodHigh.Club, an app that locates good food for stoners, based on peer reviews. The idea came to Sengbe last night while toking and coding in the midst of our Hackathon mayhem. “I can’t hack… Read More... →

For families where the children spend time commuting back and forth between parents’ houses, keeping track of everyone’s schedule can be a challenge for moms, dads, and kids alike. That’s a problem that Alex Jordan, age 11, has faced firsthand, which is why she returned this weekend to the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco hackathon to work on Famtastic, a combination… Read More... →