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Getting ready for Open Hack Day London

2009-05-05T16:29:53Z

Thing are getting frantic here at the European Hack HQ with last minute schedule shifts, ordering of food and drinks and making sure we have all the gear and infrastructure in place. Almost 400 people have signed up and we're getting all the goodies ready for those about to hack. In the meantime, check the Open Hack Day London 2009 Wiki for all the latest updates and info. See you soon!

Open Hack Day India - 14th and 15th of February

2009-01-12T10:05:22Z

Namaste! You didn't think being in Bangalore once was enough for the Open Hack Day, did you? We're back and we're ready to see what creative hacks the Indian developer community can come up with. Where? The Taj Residency, Bangalore When? The weekend of 14th and 15th of February Want to come? Register either for only the presentations (weak) or for the full hack day (good) at the Open Hack Day India 2009 registration page. This is the only official signup for the event, you need to get your free ticket there! Detailed Agenda: Saturday Feb 14th 8am – Registration Begins 9am-1pm – Technology Presentations 1pm – 24 hour Overnight Hacking begins 7pm-10pm – Special Valentines Entertainment for Hackers and 1 Guest (Details To Be Announced) Sunday Feb 15th 12pm – Hackers Last Hour Call – Start registering your hack for Demos 1pm – Hacking Ends – Lunch 2pm – Hack Demos begin 6pm – Judging & Awards 7pm – wrap-up & disperse Other resources:

See you there!

Update from Brazil Hackday.

2008-11-09T23:44:24Z

Oi! Open Hack Day Brazil is being hosted in a beautiful auditorium on the campus of SENAC university in Sao Paulo. Before I continue, I should note that the food here has been delicious, diverse, and refreshed every couple hours throughout the night. My favorite item so far was the fresh-squeezed pinapple juice with mint leaves served this morning ... mmm, delicious ... ok, back to the update :) Even after a long night of hacking, the crowd here is still enthusiastic, and racing for the finish line. YQL and BOSS have been huge points of interest so far, but I've seen some unique projects in the works: one group is using the Social API SDK from within Blueprint and another has two $100 laptops and a breadboard wired with LEDs, so I am unsure just what kind of hacks to expect. The tenacity and passion of the participants is impressive: they were lined up at 8 yesterday morning and went to work immediately after the doors opened. Debugging technical challenges, like authorization flow, across a language barrier has been daunting at times, but we've had fun all along. In the middle of the night, we were treated to unexpected delights: "Freebird", an homage to the recent Open Hack in Sunnyvale, a clip from Monty Python's "The Holy Grail", and "Iron Man". Throughout, a wonderful, varied selection of music (trance, R & B, rock, alternative, hip hop, and whatever genre includes Pornophonique, a guitar/Game Boy duo Christian Heilmann introduced us to) helped maintain a superior hacking environment. Credit must be given to the Sao Paulo and Miami teams for organizing such a well-run and enjoyable event. The classes were casual (bean bags along the front row) but punctual, with staff on hand for translation. I should also note that Sao Paulo is a beautiful city, with expansive areas of verdant lawns and tropical foliage interspersing urban development on a staggering scale. We have very much enjoyed your stay here. And the food is amazing. Now, we are going into the awards ceremony. Tchau. Erik Eldrigde Yahoo Developer Network

CMU Hack Day Results

2008-10-13T19:02:31Z

Carnegie Mellon's 2008 Hack Day was our largest and best-attended University Hack Day ever. We wound up with 29 entries and a very full house for demonstration time, thanks to the inclusion of Hack Pitch--in cooperation with the Tepper School of Business--in which hackers teamed up with MBA students to produce business plans based around working hacks. Because there were so many entries and so much enthusiasm throughout the night, the judges conspired to add a few Honorable Mention awards not given at other events. Here they are: Hackiest Hack: Susan Blog, by Edwin Shao and Susan Lin. This hand-drawn travelogue captured our hearts and brought in many interesting images from Flickr, and the presenters learned an important lesson about not assuming that everyone's screen runs at the same resolution that yours does. Especially the projector you're going to present your hack on. :) Head First No Prisoners Award: Local Event Mapper, by Derek Kozel. The author had no programming experience of any sort, or even a laptop to hack on, and yet he managed to quickly glean enough knowledge to bring local events from many different services onto the same map, courtesy of the biggest, most complicated set of Yahoo! Pipes we have ever seen. Ever. Guts and Determination Award: Upcoming++, by Ashutosh Chauhan. Before the presentations start, you really want to make sure the machine you're going to present on will talk to a projector. After five (count-em FIVE) attempts, Ashutosh's effort--an interesting mash-up of Upcoming and Maps--finally came alive, to rousing applause. Category Awards Search Monkey Prize: TwitterSearchMonkey, by Paul Shen. TwitterSearchMonkey amplifies the search result for a Twitter user's profile page, including the user avatar and ten most recent tweets in the advanced search bar. http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=Uld.s BOSS : How We Like, by Kyle Sun and Ruojian Yu. This hack used BOSS to run multiple searches on a person's name, analyzed the results for emotionally-charged terms, and gave a percentage of "how we like" it. Running it on the judges' names during the demonstration was a brave--and highly amusing--move that helped to seal the deal. Sorry, no URL available. Hack for Good: Panorama, by Donald Cober and Nirava Patel. Kids around the world are beginning to acquire One Laptop Per Child machines; this hack makes it simple for them to create a 360-degree panorama of where they live, stitch it together, and upload it to Flickr. The vision is to allow children around the world to share their surroundings with each other. If you visit the hack's page, you'll see the actual image the authors captured when they demonstrated their hack: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Panorama Overall Winners Third Overall: GeoComments, by Steven Hillenius and Sam Hashemi. Even though this one used (ahem) a competitor's map API, we could not ignore the technical sweetness or the bright idea: a simple implementation of geo-located discussion to find the best food in the area. Click the map to visit a spot near CMU; add comments or read those left by others, or click the magic Food button in the top right to see where to eat on campus. Steven and Sam even had a portable version which ran on a jailbroken iPhone, which used your current location to instantly find food near you. http://geocomments.res.cmu.edu/hack/ Second Overall: Eagle Eye, by Mattt Thompson and Dan Sibley. Eagle Eye was a very nicely-done interactive photo scavenger hunt, using FireEagle, Flickr, GeoPlanet, and Yahoo! Maps. Players see photos and do their best to come closest to the spot where the photo was taken, by uploading a matching geotagged picture. Sorry, no URL to share, but we hope it will be along shortly. First Overall: The Inhabited Web, by Chris Harrison, Bryan Pendleton, Julia Schwarz. This hack took top honors for several reasons: it was a technically sweet implementation of one of those slap-your-forehead-it's-so-simple ideas: a real-time visualization of how many people are currently browsing the same page you're on, and approximately where they are. The demo is currently live here: http://inhabitedweb-demo.geekdom.net/hacku.html ... but we imagine it will be visible everywhere soon, since it also took first place in Hack Pitch. Thanks to all who participated ... next stop, San Diego!

Stanford Hack Day Results

2008-10-08T22:21:06Z

The week started off with Paul Tarjan's Search Monkey Brain Jam. We had over 70 students attend and some excellent questions, and wound up with SearchMonkey in four out of our six hacks. On Tuesday we hosted the CS Faculty and Student appreciation barbecue, which was a big success and a great way for Yahoo! to kick off the year at Stanford. Over 160 students and faculty came out to enjoy the beautiful weather, food and conversation. We received tons of thank-yous and many of them stayed after to hear more about our new open technology push from Rasmus Lerdorf and Dav Glass. We had two days to cool down, and then on Friday we crammed in a room for the final hack hours before the judging. In keeping with our tradition, we hacked along with the students. Dav and Paul took the YUI documentation system and added RDFa markup to the HTML output. We didn't know of any other vocabularies for marking up code structure, so we made out own. Soon, any documentation generated by YUIDoc will be part of the semantic web. Two-time defending champion Michael Fischer showed off a pair of hacks, his "what if they mated" hack from OpenHack 2008, and a new hack that builds a social graph from your email correspondence, and then sends you text messages when "important people" send you an email. The SearchMonkey prize went to Lucas Garron, who amazed us not only by solving Rubik's Cube in 19 seconds but also with his SearchMonkey infobar for the World Cubing Association. Now Lucas can easily keep an eye on his competitors and their records in various competitions. Third place went to Bob Lantz, for Conference-O-Matic, a new way to look at the Association for Computing Machinery's conference database. Bob's hack scrapes the content from many different ACM pages and then uses YUI to present an easily-navigable file browser pane. Second place went to Stefan Krawczyk, for his VTA Bus View SearchMonkey app. Stefan usually uses a search engine to find his bus routes, and by embedding the data right in the page he can now save a click. We've asked him to extend his plugin to other bay area transit options, so soon we might have our transit options all in Yahoo! Search. First place went to Diana Gentry, for her cross-site Book Info Grabber. Diana's SearchMonkey app provided helpful links to other sources of information based on the book's ISBN number. Users can look up the availability in their local library, or comparison shop across multiple sellers. Book Info Grabber currently works with Amazon and Barnes & Noble, but Diana plans to extend it to any page that has an ISBN. Onwards to CMU!

Waterloo Hack Day Results

2008-09-29T16:39:27Z

First prize over all went to an impressive hack by Addy Cameron-Huff named HackDemocracy: http://yahoo.summerhilldesign.com Addy managed to organize an incredible amount of data and put an easy-to-use and very polished UI on top of it. In the end what we get is an incredible political research tool that allows us to dig into how your local MP has represented you by looking at what he/she has said on-record in Parliament. You can see see the excerpt about the topic you care about or the entire speech. You can also see how the parties stand on issues you care about based on how often they talk about those issues. And finally he added a simple RSS API for you to fetch the text of speeches by topic to let you build off of his hard data ming work. Second place went to Flare by Michael Campagnaro and Niall Wingham: http://flare.impact.org Flare is a semantic markup tool written in Javascript. Flare currently only supports RDFa, but we really hope Michael and Niall continue working on it and add eRDF and all the popular microformats to it. Anything that helps push the web towards semantic validity is very important. Third place went to Globami, by first-year studenut Renaud Bourassa: http://globami.rhinosphere.com Globami is a friend visualizer that lets you easily see where anybody's friends are on a couple of different networks, either through a nice Web UI or in a SearchMonkey info bar. Not bad for three weeks of instruction! In the BOSS category we selected Clustr, by Alex Leong, Nick Engelking, Danielle Alessio, and Josh Lamontagne: http://clustr.wolfjourn.net Clustr does a number of BOSS searches to determine the relationship between search terms, finds images to represent each and gives you a graphical cluster where the size of the images and the distances between them indicate correlation. In the BluePrint category we chose Mobill by Chong Su, Toshio Wang, Carol Yu, and Jason Cham: http://beta.m.yahoo.com/w/devtest-chongasu-mobill Mobill keeps track of your expenses, giving you some nice sorting and graphical visualization tools right on your phone. It also includes a Web service where you can download your expenses into a spreadsheet. In the SearchMonkey category we chose Jeff Pound's API Monkey app: http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=09H.s API Monkey provides language-specific reference help for a number of languages. And it does a really nice job of showing the most relevant parts of the various reference docs. Honorable Mention: Jimmy He's Tiny Vector Graphics Editor, which brought back memories of Logo and Turtle Graphics for me, and is great fun to play with. We also liked the ideas in the CalendrViewr2.0Beta hack. Are they perhaps trying to poke a little fun at Web product names, numbers and everlasting beta cycles with that name? MaybeNotSpam gave us an interesting way to give messages in the spam folder on Yahoo Mail or GMail a second chance at the In box. Edgar A. Bering gave us a fascinating lesson in quantum computing and Scheme that we ... didn't quite grasp a word of. :) Other highlights included a mobile RSS reader written using the BluePrint API called Feedy! and a Web directory index enhancer simply called DIR. We also saw another stellar batch of SearchMonkey apps, the simplest and funniest being the "Canada Eh?" app that added an "Eh?" to the end of all Canadian URLs. Also in SearchMonkey we saw a nice combination of IMDB, Torrent searches and Last.fm apps, along with a tv.com app, a World Of Warcraft app, and a very nice Map Infobar with driving directions from your location, derived from GeoIP. Photos from Waterloo are on Flickr, here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/70883693@N00 Onwards to Stanford!

UIUC Hack Day Results

2008-09-22T17:26:50Z

Best Overall First Place - Pastee, by Matt Sparks https://pastee.org/ A secure combined pastebin/tinyurl service which was very polished. We actually ended up using it during the judging. First place gets Matt a trip to Sunnyvale for the finals; we can't wait to see what he comes up with next. More on Pastee here: https://pastee.org/about. Second Place - Speakli, by Rahul Malik, Dave Paola, and Nathan Lawrence http://www.speakli.com Speakli is sort of like Ning for Microblogging sites. A bit like Yammer, I guess, but with a different focus. You can create your own Microblogging site with a few clicks complete with a full-featured Mobile widget version of it which was very slick. Third Place - Internet Archive SearchMonkey App, by Alex Lambert http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=k4O.s Infobar finds all old versions of a site via the Internet archive. Alex also enter a pair of other really cool Search Monkey apps, RetailMeNot, which shows coupons related to the result, and BugMeNot, which we should probably not link here. :) Here's RetailMeNot: http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=ztq.s Best BOSS Hack - The Perfect Search, by Alex Lambert http://dev.quickfire.org/perfect/ Alex is a hack legend at UIUC; his hacks are eclectic and thought-provoking. In this one he paints a picture of what the Web would be like if everything had to be perfect. What if only sites that validated were indexed? Try doing a few searches on The Perfect Search to find out. Best SearchMonkey Hack - Gist, by Andy Schmitz http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=IyE.s Annotating web results or letting users improve the description of a site has been bounced around for a while, but you always have the Wikipedia problem and the spam problem. I thought Gist had a nice idea in that it only allows you take copy complete sentences found on the actual site to create a better blurb/description of that site. He had a cool Javascript hack combined with his SearchMonkey app to implement this in a rather slick fashion. Best BluePrint Mobile Widget - Speakli, by Rahul Malik, Dave Paola, and Nathan Lawrence http://www.speakli.com, described above. Honorable Mention Other highlights came from Will Duff (last year's UIUC winner) with Yahoo Mail file storage app, at http://williamduff.name/YMFS/, and Dan Barry, with the Map It SearchMonkey App, at http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=oXL.s. Onwards to Waterloo!

Hack Day Winners!

2008-09-14T01:55:44Z

Here we go:

- number: 3
- team: Georgia Tech
- hack: DialPrice
- url: local machine
- people: Roger Pincombe
- Winner: University Hack Award
- 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
- Third prize: Fire Eagle category
- number: 13, 43, and that Guitar Thing
- team: The Seg Faults
- hack: Circuit Hero
- url: http://wizardiask.com
- people: Stewart He, Ryan Luecke, Gabor Angeli
- Most Prolific
- number: 17
- team: Cafe
- hack: cafe.com
- url: http://apps.yahoo.com/canvas/Z9fix13e
- people: Roman Nouzareth, Laurent Letourmy, Gilluame Fontana
- Winner, YOS Award
- number: 18
- team: Xoopit
- hack: Xoopit for Yahoo! Mail
- url: http://www.xoopit.com/
- people: Jerry Su, Amy Lee, Bijan Marashi
- Winner: Best Overall; Second Prize, Mail Division; Third Prize, Flickr Division
- number: 21
- team: Something Tasty
- hack: Weather Sets
- url: http://weathersets.com/
- people: Leah Culver, Ariel Waldman
- Winner: Fire Eagle
- number: 22
- team: OpenDNS
- hack: OpenDNS Guide
- url: http://www.opendns.com/
- people: miked, rcrowley
- Winner: BOSS and Bleeding Purple awards; third prize, YUI division
- 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
- Winner, Flickr Prize
- number: 27
- team: Meebo
- hack: Meebo FlickrIM
- url: local machine
- people: Martin Hunt
- Second prize, Flickr division
- number: 28
- team: Team MyYahooSocial.com
- hack: MyYahooSocial.com
- url: http://myyahoosocial.com
- people: Gaurav Sarode
- Second prize, YUI division
- number: 30
- team: Mossssshhhhhh
- hack: MoshPit
- url: http://www.wavewash.net/moshpit
- people: Mo Kakwan
- Winner, Most Entertaining; Second Prize, Flash Platform Award
- number: 32
- team: Chunky Goo
- hack: Cell Phone Signal Tracker
- url: http://www.jesseandkristi.com/000/signaltracker.htm
- people: Jesse Baird
- Winner: Filo's Technical Merit Award
- number: 33
- team: TripIteers
- hack: TripIt Openmail Integration
- url: local machine
- people: andy & jacques
- Winner: Best User Experience
- number: 34
- team: Two Guys from Macquarium
- hack: Where Are My Drivers?
- url: local machine
- people: Wilson Sheldon, Kelvin Ling
- Winner, Best Mail App; Second prize, Fire Eagle category; Giga Om Prize
- number: 35
- team: PixelTap
- hack: Flickr Transport
- url: http://pixeltap.com
- people: Majed Itani, Nate D'Amico
- First prize, YUI division
- number: 39
- team: game changers
- hack: iHeater
- url: http://netapt.com/~markr/heater.html
- people: Mark Rosetta
- Winner: Most Unexpected
- number: 42
- team: From Circumstances
- hack: Map Data Visualization
- url: http://modernhacker.com/r
- people: Erik Swedberg, Jesse Zbikowski, Rod Graves, Jasmeet Bagga
- Geo Award, Flash Platform Award
- number: 47
- team: UIUC/Berkeley
- hack: Search Monkey Speed Hack
- url: local machine
- people: Greg Schechter and Niels Joubert
- Most Impromptu Hack Award

It was awesome; see you for the next one!

Hack Day Demo List

2008-09-13T23:04:47Z

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.

Invitations and Confirmations are Rolling

2008-08-20T23:58:10Z

We're seeing a fair number of requests for invitations, and some very creative 140-character haikus and limericks. (No palindromes yet, but there's still time.) As before, space--especially camping space--on the Y! campus is limited, so please get your requests in soon, if you have not done so already. For those who've already replied to their invitations, final instructions are being written now, and should be out to you shortly. Other places you might hear about Hack Day include:

... but please keep in mind that no matter what you might read out there, the only way to get a genuine invitation to Hack Day is to sign up at hackday.org. Thanks!

Save the date!

2008-05-22T23:16:22Z

Time-space coordinates have been designated. See hackday.org. Have fun. :)

stay tuned....

2008-05-20T16:33:40Z

stay tuned....

Results of the Open Hack Day Bangalore 2007

2007-10-07T08:16:27Z

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
"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.

Hack TV: Watch the demos here

2007-07-06T23:01:20Z

The Yahoo! Research Berkeley team built a handy hack demo viewer:

"You can see a list of all the hacks (including which hacks won the judges awards), you can launch URL demos for many of the hacks, and, best of all, you can jump to any hack instantly to watch it (no waiting for it to load or fast forwarding through the video to try and find things). We’ve also displayed the list of hacks directly on the video time line, which makes scanning around for hacks incredibly simple."

Check it out at: http://timetags.research.yahoo.com/hackdayuk

The Hack Day London Winners List

2007-06-20T22:25:40Z

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

Christian Heilmann posted the complete list of submitted hacks, and Frankie Roberto liveblogged the demos.