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Yahoo! India conducts Open Hack Day for developers
By siliconindia
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Monday, 08 October 2007, 19:30 IST
Bangalore: Around 100 developers came together and took up the challenge of developing some thing creative using Yahoo! APIs at the Yahoo! Open Hack Day on October 5 - 6, 2007. After Sunnyvale, California and London, Bangalore is the third city where Yahoo! R&D organized its Open Hack Day.
David Filo, Co-Founder and Chief, Yahoo!, Bradley Horowitz, VP, Yahoo! Product Strategy Group and few other executives flew in from the U.S. to be a part of the event.
The participating teams were briefed about the rules and regulations and the usage of Yahoo! APIs. The event kick started at 5 pm on October 5 giving the participants 24 hours to create their hack.
By the evening of October 6, there were 30 hacks, which were presented to a panel of judges who decided the best of the lot. The teams had 90 seconds to give a demo of their applications. I-pods and Play Stations were some of the prizes for the teams that won.
There were many categories under which the hacks were judged and some of prize-winning hacks were Yahoo! Hindi Search, Del.icio.us Tag Management, Collaborative Browsing, Desktop Wallpaper Love, YaHealer!and Maps Doodle among others.
Talking about the idea of organizing such an event, Horowitz said, "Yahoo! Open Hack Day is an out come of internal Hack Day events. The aim of such an event is to provide a platform to drive innovation and help small start-ups to partner with Yahoo!."