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Results of the Open Hack Day Bangalore 2007
The first Hackday in India is over! About 100 hackers took on the challenge to take the Yahoo! APIs and create something using them in 24 hours. In the end, we had 31 submitted hacks and each team or single hacker had his 90 seconds of fame presenting the hack on three massive screens to the whole assembled audience and the 7 judges.
The winners were:
- Best "Non-Technical" hack: Yahoo! Hindi Search
- Best "Really Needs an Interface" hack: Del.icio.us Tag Management
- "Most Parallel" hack: Collaborative Browsing
- Best "Desktop Hack": Desktop Wallpaper Love
- "I wish I had a Mac" Hack: Third Tag
text files and get a list of recommended tags based on their content.
- "Most Viral" hack: Facebook Friend Folio
- "Best Self Expression" hack: Smart Editor
- "Most likely to arrive at next Hack Day on time": Social Routing
- "Brainiest Hack": YaHealer!
- "Best in Show": Maps Doodle
For a full description and a list of the rest of the hacks, please head over to the YDN blog.