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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:

• http://hackday.org
• http://developer.yahoo.com
• http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/820863
• http://twitter.com/openhackday
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/hackday
• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-hackday/
• http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=23130487205

... 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!

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

stay tuned....

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.

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

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.

In case you haven't seen the Hack Day imagery on the badge page or the Backnetwork, check out the logos here:

They look great on the event schwag we've organized.

Designer: Micah Laaker

Original photos:

• rightee


• DannieVDM


• Andy Hay

A lot of people have asked us how they could get involved in the Hack Day effort. Fortunately, we have a few guinea pigs (and a rabbit) who volunteered to scout out the idea of 'sponsorship' to help Yahoo! and BBC make this event even richer.

In no particular order, the following Hack Day sponsors are contributing to the event by providing access, assistance, small prizes, goodies and living, breathing engineers...some of which will participate, as well. No booths and no booth bunnies (except the hackable kind).

• Make Magazine


• IBM developerWorks


• Nabaztag


• Linden Labs


• Arduino


• Moo


• O'Reilly


• Instructables

Participants who wish to learn more about any of these companies and how to hack their products and services should look out for them at Alexandra Palace.

Thanks to all of you for experimenting with us.

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