Posts by Havi Hoffman

Find us at the Velocity Conference, June 14-16. Stop by the booth or watch Yahoo! speakers online via the live stream.

Over 350 hackers came to Bucharest, Romania this past weekend and over 60 excellent hacks were presented.

Here at YDN, we’re counting the days till Open Hack EU 2011, taking place in Bucharest, Romania, on May 14-15.

YDN collaborated with Kynetx on a fast-paced online contest for the best app built YQL on Kynetx. We have a winner and several honorable mentions.

On Monday, Yahoo! Developer Network participated in Salesforce’s inaugural Cloudstock event, a developer-centric prelude to Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual customer gathering.

For this contest, build any application that uses both Kynetx and YQL. You can add any other web service into the mix.

About 100 people gathered to build projects that combined ideas from science, software hacking, and web design.

Winners of the Developer Challenge were announced last Wednesday, just as the World Series was getting started at nearby AT&T Park.

Hack days generate serendipity, collaboration, patents, product ideas, and clever code. A recap of my recent panel at Web 2.0 Expo.

When I read about Tim Maly’s 50 posts about cyborgs project, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the word, I knew I wanted to contribute. With the web, we are all cybernetic organisms of a sort.

William Gibson’s new novel picks up some threads from his last one, Spook Country. Geolocation, augmented reality, extreme marketing, wearable technology, and retired rock ‘n rollers come together in a ripping good yarn.

South by Southwest Interactive 2011 is still more than six months away, but voting on the PanelPicker end this Friday, August 27, at 11:59 CDT.

PayPal recently announced its X Developer Challenge, featuring a Grand Prize of $100,000. YDN is sponsoring a $10,000 X Award. Register by August 4 for a chance to win an iPad.

At last week’s Summit, we spoke to presenters and thought leaders about using Hadoop. Here’s a sampling of what we heard and some snippets we captured on video.

During the early weeks of June, the Social Platforms team successfully launched Social 2.2, which included the coordinated release of software updates to 9 different social platforms (including Social Directory, Address Book, Updates, and YQL) and the cross-company release of social features in over 12 properties in many international markets. It was a challenging week [...]