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June 20, 2007
The Hack Day judges handed out prizes for some of the most interesting, entertaining, useful and 'I-shoulda-thought-of-that' hacks built at Hack Day in London. Almost all of the following are live (at the time of this post) for you to see and play with:
Best hack of the rules : Blue Steel, Beagle III
Should have been in the product yesterday on Yahoo!: Stephen Fernandez, Indicating Users in Flickr Photos with tags and notes (greasemonkey)
Should have been in the product yesterday on BBC: Dharmafly, Hack Hud
Best use of BBC API’s: Monkey Tennis, BBC Nwsr 24
Best use of Yahoo! API’s: Steffan Jones, Flickr Tunes
Most Useful: Richard Rutter & Andy Hume, "Get us Organised"
Best International Hack: Mnemosyne, You say potato, I say Solanum tuberosum (greasemonkey)
Funniest Hack: North and South, Top Gun
Best Overall: Nick Bilton and Michael Young, shifd.com
There were also a few special category winners presented by the Hack Day sponsors:
Make Magazine: Bli.mp
SecondLife: Supernova, SLorpedo: The mixed reality game of naval warfare
Flickr: Steffan Jones, Flickr Tunes (also "Best use of Yahoo! API’s". see above.)
BBC Radio: Erin & Kelvin, John Peeled
And if you want to see what else was built, Christian Heilmann posted the complete list of submitted hacks, and Frankie Roberto liveblogged the demos.
Matt McAlister
Posted at June 20, 2007 2:37 PM
Any chance we can get the videos of our own presentations for download? The clip of the presentations part is tiny and only shows 1 app, I'd really like to get a hold of how ours went. Thanks for a great weekend guys!
Posted by: Jamie van Dyke at June 21, 2007 4:29 AM
any chance we can get the videos of the awards as well? Thanks
Great Weekend!
Posted by: Chris at June 21, 2007 6:32 AM
weren't there actually 3 winners of the BBC radio hack? atleast there were given out 3 radios?
Posted by: Svend at June 21, 2007 9:03 AM
Yes, we have the videos, and we're working on posting them soon. Sorry it has taken so long. More to come...
Posted by: Matt McAlister at June 21, 2007 12:18 PM
how do i join the winning hackers associaition ...
Posted by: sean jump at July 14, 2007 8:07 AM
Fantastic event, congrats to all the winners!
Posted by: Alan Parekh at July 27, 2007 9:17 AM
great. wish we can see live video.any more such interesting events keep me posted
Posted by: Ram at August 5, 2007 9:53 PM
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