PubNub Wins Ford Motor Company & VentureBeat Makeathon

PubNub’s Geremy Cohen took home 1st place at DevBeat’s 24 hour Ford Motor Company Makeathon App Developer Challenge last night. Geremy built a real-time taxi notification system using PubNub and Ford’s AppLink technology, where the app is plugged into the dashboard of the car, and the driver can easily accept/reject the ride using the buttons on their steering wheel. Geremy specifically used PubNub to manage the distribution of data from customers to taxi drivers.

Congrats to @pubnub and @glassboardhack on winning the Ford Makeathon App Developer Challenge and Ford TDKs at #devbeat!

— Ford Motor Company (@Ford) November 14, 2013

You can read more about Geremy’s app here on VentureBeat, or check us out on ABC7 News below (1:40):

PubNub Data Stream Network ABC7 News Coverage from PubNub Video on Vimeo.