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Hack Day Demo List
Hack Day demos are on right now; see live coverage on http://live.yahoo.com/hackday.
Here's your list of entries:
- number: 1
- team: Stanford
- hack: FlickrFuse
- url: local machine
- people: Michael Fischer
- comments: Stanford
- number: 2
- team: Carnegie Mellon
- hack: Demograph
- url: local machine
- people: Mattt Thompson
- comments: Carnegie Mellon
- number: 3
- team: Georgia Tech
- hack: DialPrice
- url: local machine
- people: Roger Pincombe
- comments: Georgia Tech
- number: 4
- team: UIUC
- hack: Pages
- url: http://williamduff.name/YahooPages
- people: Will Duff
- comments: Pages emulates an advanced WYSIWYG web page builder inside the browser. Use the Tools to build the perfect layout and then customize your web page by double-clicking to edit content in the HTML Editor. Once you're done, save your web page to my server
- number: 5
- team: Berkeley
- hack: Psychic Skype Hotline
- url: local machine
- people: Ryan Luecke, Gabor Angeli, Stewart He
- comments: Berkeley
- number: 6
- team: Undergrads of Innovation(U of I)
- hack: The Wobbly Wheel
- url: local machine
- people: Greg Schechter, Matt Strick, Dave Alongi
- comments: In the past 24 hours, we tried to change the classical view of shopping on the web. We implemented in page product comparison, and a universal shopping cart. We used the Yahoo Kelkoo shopping services, along with our own apis.
- number: 7
- team: DonatGroup
- hack: Microformats and the future
- url: http://sni.ps/yahoo_api
- people: Séamus O'Connor, Rob Linton
- comments: Hack Does: Shows a glimps into the future where microformats are ubiquitous. APIs: Yahoo Boss Yahoo Tech: Yahoo Music Player Tech: PHP, Drupal, Mootools Needs: I have no special needs
- number: 8
- team: Shannon Clark
- hack: Personal Identity Domain
- url: http://shannonclark.com
- people: Shannon Clark
- comments: Aggregates my blog posts, social web activity, content about me, and my profile, using Pipes and MyBlogLog. Working on BOSS and OpenSocial now.
- number: 9
- team: Cana-Hackers
- hack: Skill Tag Hack
- url: http://hackday.superb.net
- people: Adam Leszcsynski, Jason Barnes
- comments: What it does: Improve internal communications. Pulls list of employees at each location, allows users to sort based on location or skills tags to get a better idea of who is in charge of what. APIs: Flickr, Maps, Patterns. Languages: PHP, HTML, CSS,
- number: 10
- team: Richard Crowley
- hack: Dopploadr
- url: http://dopploadr.rcrowley.org/
- people: Richard Crowley
- comments: Dopploadr is an extension to the open-source, Mozilla-based Flickr Uploadr that authenticates with your Dopplr account to geotag photos as they're uploaded.
- number: 11
- team: Dipity
- hack: Dipstars of a Feather
- url: http://ryan.dipity.com/rromanchuk/FIREEAGLE_and_FLAMINGOS
- people: Ryan Romanchuk, BK Gupta, Derek Dukes
- comments: A user can link their FireEagle account to Dipity. For any new events added to Dipity for a given user or topic (or updated through FireEagle), Dipity will look for the related WOEID and then attaches other users to that event.
- number: 12
- team: Shoppertron
- hack: Yahoo! Music Store Widget
- url: http://shoppertron.com/Y/musicstore/
- people: Jack Hurwitz and Peter Van.
- comments: This is a simple IAD 300x250 sized widget written in PHP. It allows someone to search the Shopping API for Music Albums. The results in the widget are visible by clicking the buttons.
- number: 13
- team: The Seg Faults
- hack: Circuit Hero
- url: http://wizardiask.com
- people: Stewart He, Ryan Luecke, Gabor Angeli
- comments: Our hack: An electric guitar, but not what you're expecting. It's an analog circuit built into a guitar, with the open note and first 4 frets fully playable. All you need to know is how to play a regular guitar.
- number: 14
- team: Jeremy Gillick
- hack: Ganzbot, the feed reading robot
- url: local machine
- people: Jeremy Gillick
- comments: It's a simple robot that automatically reads Y! news, weather, twitter an other feeds with on a simple plugin architecture.
- number: 15
- team: Philosoraptor
- hack: Icarus.TV
- url: local machine
- people: Mattt Thompson
- comments: Icarus.tv is like Pandora for music videos. Starting with an artist you like, it will automatically play videos from other artists you may like too. It uses the impressive collection of videos made available by the Y! Music API, as well as BrowserPlus.
- number: 16
- team: self.included
- hack: Siffd
- url: http://siffd.com
- people: Sandro Turriate, Jon Bardin
- comments: Searching Upcoming with YQL; working on sharing with e-mail and IM.
- number: 17
- team: Cafe
- hack: cafe.com
- url: http://apps.yahoo.com/canvas/Z9fix13e
- people: Roman Nouzareth, Laurent Letourmy, Gilluame Fontana
- comments: Cafe.com games inside the Yahoo! Apps Platform, plus the Social API, Presence, Updates, and Maps
- number: 18
- team: Xoopit
- hack: Xoopit for Yahoo! Mail
- url: http://www.xoopit.com/
- people: Jerry Su, Amy Lee, Bijan Marashi
- comments: Xoopit uses the Yahoo! Mail App Development platform, a whole lot of JavaScript on the client-side and a disgusting amount of Java on the backend to organize images, videos, and other media within your e-mail.
- number: 19
- team: SEAhawks
- hack: Y!bqty
- url: local machine
- people: Andrei Navarro, Harish Mallipeddi, Gavin Bong
- comments: A showcase of integration between Yahoo APIs and Mozilla Ubiquity. Ubiquity plugins are written in pure Javascript and we made use of the FUEL library in FF3. APIs used in our Ubiquity commands: Yahoo Music, Yahoo Finance. We also played around with BOSS
- number: 20
- team: jdhsu
- hack: Search your own search results with BOSS
- url: http://www.noquirk.com
- people: jean-david hsu
- comments: Search your own search results with BOSS
- number: 21
- team: Something Tasty
- hack: Weather Sets
- url: http://weathersets.com/
- people: Leah Culver, Ariel Waldman
- comments: a card-collecting game, based around visiting different cities and matching the weather to collectible photo cards. it uses bbauth, the fire eagle and weather APIs, and photos from flickr. and maybe maps if we have time
- number: 22
- team: OpenDNS
- hack: OpenDNS Guide
- url: http://www.opendns.com/
- people: miked, rcrowley
- comments: Replaced Yahoo YDN with Yahoo BOSS to provide better search results and a better search experience to our end users. Converted internal APIs to JSON.
Need to run demo on own computer due to VPN/internal resources.
- number: 23
- team: Alpha Team Hacker 5
- hack: Find And Seek
- url: http://apps.yahoo.com/-Mz3EFU38/YahooFullView/
- people: Joshua DeWald, Taylor Dondich, Nolan Ehrstrom
- comments: This hack allows Yahoo! users to create and play Scavenger hunts based on Flickr images. The app itself is embedded in the Yahoo Application Platform so we make use of YML and the new Social API. Additionally, we obtain location information through Maps.
- number: 24
- team: the1geek
- hack: XPad Geo-Assist
- url: local machine
- people: Newton Chan
- comments: Geo-mashups with other services YUI widgets, YMaps, Upcoming, Flickr and FireEagle APIs
JavaScript, Ajax and PHP
- number: 25
- team: SlideShare
- hack: SlideSearch
- url: http://www.slideshare.net
- people: Jon Boutelle, Choon Keat Chew, Gee Chuang
- comments: We're implementing the BOSS search API with our existing SlideShare API to allow one-click uploads from search results on presentations (ppt files). Instantly convert a PPT search result into an embeddable flash presentation!
- number: 26
- team: Jordan Sissel
- hack: SnackUpon
- url: http://pipes.yahoo.com/jordansissel/snackupon
- people: Jordan Sissel
- comments: Get StumbleUpon-like behavior trained automatically from your own tags in delicious. Sources are BOSS news and web search, your Delicious network, recent Delicious posts, and your own recent posts.
- number: 27
- team: Meebo
- hack: Meebo FlickrIM
- url: local machine
- people: Martin Hunt
- comments: Adds photo sharing with Yahoo! IM to Flickr and other pages. Drag and drop photos to buddies and instantly share. OAuth, Flickr, Greasemonkey, and the Presence, Contacts, and Updates APIs.
- number: 28
- team: Team MyYahooSocial.com
- hack: MyYahooSocial.com
- url: http://myyahoosocial.com
- people: Gaurav Sarode
- comments: This application is a one stop place for all your yahoo social needs. We can see the yahoo profiles, flikr updates and maps. We used yahoo YUI, Y! Open Platform SDK, Flikr API, Yahoo! Maps API and phpflickr.com API.
- number: 29
- team: Serendipity
- hack: Blogosphere Social Graph
- url: http://www.networkedblogs.com/blognetworks/website/bloggraph.php
- people: Waleed Abdulla and Jon Thoms
- comments: This is a flash visualization of the blogosphere social graph based on data from the Blog Networks Facebook App. For each blog, we calculate related blogs by analyzing users' subscriptions to the blog and other blogs.
- number: 30
- team: Mossssshhhhhh
- hack: MoshPit
- url: http://www.wavewash.net/moshpit
- people: Mo Kakwan
- comments: We use the flickr API and simulate a hackday concert.
- number: 31
- team: portcode
- hack: DarwinPorts RDFa
- url: http://darwinports.com/?q=
- people: Mat Caughron with phenomenal advice from Paul Tarjan
- comments: SearchMonkey app: added microformats (RDFa) for port file web pages that are descriptions of open source software packages ported to MacOS. This makes the ports much more indexable by search engines.
- number: 32
- team: Chunky Goo
- hack: Cell Phone Signal Tracker
- url: http://www.jesseandkristi.com/000/signaltracker.htm
- people: Jesse Baird
- comments: This hack tracks cell signal strength with Y! Maps. The purpose is to show real-world stats on actual cell phones rather than using the Carriers' web sites.
- number: 33
- team: TripIteers
- hack: TripIt Openmail Integration
- url: local machine
- people: andy & jacques
- comments: combining the magic of the openmail api, javascript, python, php and our own special sauce we've created the best way to organize your travel. we'll need a camera shot, a lady in a cake and a working browser.
- number: 34
- team: Two Guys from Macquarium
- hack: Where Are My Drivers?
- url: local machine
- people: Wilson Sheldon, Kelvin Ling
- comments: Technologies: Fire Eagle, YUI 2.5, Y! Maps, iPhone Simulator Using Fire Eagle to help with fleet management. Boss can keep track of where his or her drivers are and send messages back to driver based on items of interest along the route.
- number: 35
- team: PixelTap
- hack: Flickr Transport
- url: http://pixeltap.com
- people: Majed Itani, Nate D'Amico
- comments: PixelTap is a web platform for image manipulation and transport. For our hack we have extensively used YUI for user experience and have integrated transport to and from Flickr.
- number: 36
- team: Mytopia
- hack: Mytopia
- url: http://apps.yahoo.com/dev-preview/I1yoGv7k/YahooFullView/
- people: Lior Cohen, Guy Ben-Artzi, Yotam Shacham
- comments: Our application is a virtual world for casual games. You can play in real-time with your buddies from Yahoo, Facebook and Open Social. We integrated with YAP utilizing the PHP API, YML, JS and AS3.
- number: 37
- team: gokuso
- hack: CAPTCHA - New Generation
- url: http://gokuso.tw/openhack08/main.php
- people: Fred Meng, Ange Wei
- comments: All new CAPTCHA elements. We use Flickr APIs to implement this ideas. Language(English), Technologies(php), no special needs, no camera/sound devices needs.
- number: 38
- team: Technarium
- hack: Food Eagle
- url: http://raconteuring.com/FoodEagle/food.php
- people: David Horn, Lisa Brewster
- comments: Where can I eat? Food Eagle combines Fire Eagle and Yahoo Local via YQL to return different kinds of restaurants close to your current location.
- number: 39
- team: game changers
- hack: iHeater
- url: http://netapt.com/~markr/heater.html
- people: Mark Rosetta
- comments: It burns up CPU cycles to create a make-shift personal heater to prevent late night hackers from freezing to death in the middle of the night. VideoAPI's used....
- number: 40
- team: game changers
- hack: aussie maps
- url: netapt.com/~markr/maps.html
- people: Mark Rosetta
- comments: Creates a more culturally neutral view of the world we live in.
- number: 41
- team: Matthew Fong
- hack: Flickr Location Calendar
- url: http://www.what2see.com/hackday08/
- people: Matthew Fong
- comments: Uses Flickr API to return an image per calendar day of a location inputted by user.
- number: 42
- team: From Circumstances
- hack: Map Data Visualization
- url: http://modernhacker.com/r
- people: Erik Swedberg, Jesse Zbikowski, Rod Graves, Jasmeet Bagga
- comments: Visualizes geographical data using Yahoo Maps.
- number: 43
- team: The Seg Faults
- hack: IM-to-Phone Bridge
- url: http://wizardiask.com
- people: Gabor Angeli, Stewart He, Ryan Luecke
- comments: Java + Smack + Skype + Sphinx
- number: 44
- team: Team Stanford
- hack: Super Checkout
- url: local machine
- people: Michael Fischer
- comments: A webcam is used to read a UPC label. Then using BOSS the product is looked up online.
- number: 45
- team: Team Stanford
- hack: If they mated...
- url: local machine
- people: Michael Fischer
- comments: The user enters two names. Using BOSS, images are retrieved. An image recognition classifier is used to crop out the heads of each person. The images are merged to create a love child.