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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](http://citygridhackathonla.eventbrite.com/ "CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon"):

**[3Scale](http://www.3scale.net/ "3Scale")** ([@3Scale](https://twitter.com/#!/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.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/3scale_2001.png "3scale_200")](http://www.3scale.net/)

**[CityGrid](http://developer.citygridmedia.com/ "CityGrid")** ([@CityGridAPITeam](https://twitter.com/#!/CityGridAPITeam "@CityGridAPITeam")) - Places, offers, reviews APIs and mobile, web and custom advertising with places that pay.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/citygrid_200.jpg "citygrid_200")](http://developer.citygridmedia.com/)

**[CloudyRec](http://cloudyrec.com/ "CloudyRec")** ([@Cloudyrec](https://twitter.com/#!/Cloudyrec "@Cloudyrec")) - CloudyRec is a mobile app scaffolding engine with integrated Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS).

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CloudyRec_2001.png "CloudyRec_200")](http://cloudyrec.com/)

**[Factual](http://www.factual.com/ "Factual")** ([@Factual](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-admin/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.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/factual_200.png "factual_200")](http://www.factual.com/)

**[GeoCoda](https://geocoda.com/ "GeoCoda")** ([@GeocodaHQ](https://twitter.com/#!/GeocodaHQ "Geocoda")) - 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.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Geocoda_2002.png "Geocoda_200")](https://geocoda.com/)

**[IPGP](http://www.ipgp.net/ip-address-geolocation-api/ "IPGP")** ([@IPlookup](https://twitter.com/#!/iplookup "@IPGP")) - IPGP is a site that lets users lookup the location of their site's visitors based on their IP addresses.

 

**[Iron.io](http://www.iron.io/ "Iron.io")** ([@Getiron](https://twitter.com/#!/getiron "@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.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ironio_200.png "ironio_200")](http://www.iron.io/)

**[Jeppesen](http://ww1.jeppesen.com/main/corporate/land/journey-planning/features.jsp "Jeppesen")** ([@JeppesenJP](https://twitter.com/#!/JeppesenJP "@JeppesenJP")) - Jeppesen Journey Planner is a cost effective way to integrate public transit information into your own website or mobile application.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/jeppesen_200.jpg "jeppesen_200")](http://ww1.jeppesen.com/main/corporate/land/journey-planning/features.jsp)

**[Socrata](http://www.socrata.com/ "Socrata")** ([@Socrata](https://twitter.com/#!/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.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/socrata_200.gif "socrata_200")](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/socrata_200.gif)

**[Spire.io](http://www.spire.io/ "Spire.io")** ([@Spireio](https://twitter.com/#!/spireio "Spire.io")) - A real-time messaging service as the first in a set of hosted, secure, and scalable APIs built for mobile and web application development.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/spireio_logo1.png "spireio_logo")](http://www.spire.io/)

**[Tiggzi](http://tiggzi.com/ "Tiggzi")** ([@tiggziapps](https://twitter.com/#!/tiggziapps "@tiggziapps")) - Cloud-based Builder for HTML5, jQuery Mobile, and PhoneGap Apps, allowing connection to REST APIs, and Export for Android, iOS, or Mobile Web.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tiggzi_200.png "tiggzi_200")](http://tiggzi.com/)

**[Verious](http://www.verious.com/ "Verious")** ([@Veriously](https://twitter.com/#!/Veriously "@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.

[![](http://www.citygridmedia.com/developer/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/verious_200.png "verious_200")](http://www.verious.com/)

The [CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon](http://citygridhackathonla.eventbrite.com/ "CityGrid Los Angeles Hackathon") is sold out, but you can follow the event on Twitter using the hashtag [#citygridhackathonLA](https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23citygridhackathonLA "#citygridhackathonLA").