Hackday London
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| 23:13 UK time, Monday, 18 June 2007
Thank you to everyone that came along to hackday and made it a very special event for everyone involved. It was quite a rollercoater ride.
In between the lightning bolts and outages of wireless, 73+ hacks and prototypes were created by the 400+ crowd of hackers, developers and designers. The prototypes ranged from involving yellow post-it notes and which poked fun at the lightning bolts on the Saturday morning. To a simulated on Y! Maps and Coke Mentos rocket ship with some great pictures.
We're planning to go through the range of hacks and see which ones could be developed further. Looking at the long list of hacks there certainly was some fantastic hacks including the winner of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ prize - .
While at Hackday a couple of extra sources were released into the wild along with the wild west/playground servers. But expect to hear more about those in following posts.
Oh about 5000 load of the pictures can be found on flickr using the tags , or
Chris Valance from ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Pods and Blogs interviewed a lot of hackers and has made the audio interviews available .
Hackday caused quite a stir not just in London but also in the blogosphere and media spaces.
Even wrote,
Web developers are gathering in London for the first ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳/Yahoo hackday. The free-form event aims to show web developers how to get more out of the data feeds and interfaces the two organisations make available. Those attending will be encouraged to play around with the technology to see what kind of innovative applications they can produce over the weekend.On-hand will be developers from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and Yahoo to provide advice about how best to use the technology.
On the blogosphere most of what happened,
And friends, much code was hacked.
The Ten word review says,
God produces amazing hack that almost electrocutes 400 internet geeks. - isofarra
and
Like a slumber party for nerds, but without any makeovers - katemonkey
Back to the press, the Guardian wrote a small post
But the concept was simple: get a bunch of geeks in a room, give them goodies and assistance from some of the people behind the Yahoo Developer Network and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Backstage, and let them build what they like.
Thank you once again to everyone who helped out, attended and was involved in Hackday London, we enjoyed it and look forward to other events like this one soon.
Here's a selection of our favorate moments
https://www.flickr.com/photos/m0dlx/561260128/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/calcock/566461961/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/564319713/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mmoorr/561706256/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/calcock/566457827/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/560917761/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/themattharris/566424059/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/demimismo/566639067/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/564322497/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/558269875/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/calcock/566384981/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanspence/566578641/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/557989068/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenichiokada/561977290/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanspence/566186020/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/isofarro/563556110/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/clagnut/565398033/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanspence/566190338/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/558245225/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/calcock/565981756/
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