Yahoo! Open Hack 2008
Thanks to all who contributed to the success of Open Hack 2008. More than 300 hundred developers participated in workshops and sessions at our Sunnyvale headquarters. We previewed the new Yahoo! application platform and social APIs. Many stayed for the party and concert, wrote code through the night, and showed their newly built apps and mashups the next day to a panel of judges. Here's a complete list of the Open Hack winners and a selection of presentations and videos. Stay tuned for Open Hack 2009!
Presentations and Sessions
An Overview: Yahoo! Open Strategy
Neal Sample & Cody Simms
Building Apps for the Mail Development Platform
Brian Goodman
Building Search Mashups with BOSS
Vik Singh
Building your own Mashups in Zimbra
Kevin Henrikson, John Holder
Contacts API
Charles Wu
Design Hacks with Stencils & Patterns
Christian Crumlish
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Seth Fitzsimmons, Ben Ward, & David Ayman Shamma
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Tyler Bell, Eddie Babcock
Hacking with the Flickr API
Ross Harmes
Hacking with the Music API
Scott Haynie
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Douglas Crockford
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Ian Kennedy
Open Social Update
Charlie Jiang (Yahoo!)
Dan Peterson, Evan Gilbert (Google)
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Allen Tom, Eran Hammer-Lahav
The Purple Pedals Project
Tarikh Korula
Roll Your Own API
Kent Brewster
Running an OpenSocial App on Yahoo!
Dan Theurer, Erik Eldridge, Jon LeBlanc
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Paul Tarjan & Evan Goer
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Ryan Kennedy
Using Y!Geo Maps to Power Your App
Gus Maldonado
Using Yahoo! APIs with PHP
Rasmus Lerdorf
Whirlwind Introduction to Building Your Hack In Flash
Allen Rabinovich
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Xavier Legros
Yahoo! Blueprint Platform
Markus Spiering
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Jonathan Trevor
YUI 3.0: A Look Ahead
Matt Sweeney & Eric Miraglia
Winners
University Hack Award: DialPrice
Team 3: Georgia Tech
People: Roger Pincombe
Best Overall: Xoopit for Yahoo! Mail
Second Prize, Y! Mail category
Third Prize, Flickr category
Team 18: Xoopit
People: Jerry Su, Amy Lee, Bijan Marashi
Most Prolific: Circuit Hero, 13, 43, and that Guitar Thing
Team: The Seg Faults (UC Berkeley)
People: Stewart He, Ryan Luecke, Gabor Angeli
Filo's Technical Merit award: Cell Phone Signal Tracker
Team 32: Chunky Goo
People: Jesse Baird
Best User Experience: TripIt Openmail Integration
Team 33: TripIteers
People: andy & Jacques
Most Entertaining: MoshPit
Second Prize, Flash Platform award
Team 30: Mossssshhhhhh
People: Mo Kakwan
Most Unexpected: iHeater
Team 39: game changers
People: Mark Rosetta
Most Impromptu: Search Monkey Speed Hack
Team 47: UIUC/Berkeley
People: Greg Schechter and Niels Joubert
Yahoo! Open Strategy award: cafe.com
Team 17: Cafe
People: Roman Nouzareth, Laurent Letourmy, Guillaume Fontana
Best Mail App: Where Are My Drivers?
Second prize, FireEagle
Giga Om Prize
Team 34: Two Guys from Macquarium
People: Wilson Sheldon, Kelvin Ling
BOSS: OpenDNS Guide
Bleeding Purple award
YUI category, 3rd prize
Team 22: OpenDNS
People: miked, rcrowley
Flickr category: Find And Seek
Team 23: Alpha Team Hacker 5
People: Joshua DeWald, Taylor Dondich, Nolan Ehrstrom
Flickr category, 2nd prize: Meebo FlickrIM
Team 27: Meebo
People: Martin Hunt
Fire Eagle category: Weather Sets
Team 21: Something Tasty
People: Leah Culver, Ariel Waldman
Fire Eagle category, 3rd prize: Dipstars of a Feather
Team 11: Dipity
People: Ryan Romanchuk, BK Gupta, Derek Dukes
Geo category: Map Data Visualization
Flash Platform award
Team 42: From Circumstances
People: Erik Swedberg, Jesse Zbikowski, Rod Graves, Jasmeet Bagga
YUI category: Flickr Transport
Team 35: PixelTap
People: Majed Itani, Nate D'Amico
YUI category, 2nd prize: MyYahooSocial.com
Team 28: Team MyYahooSocial.com
People: Gaurav Sarode, Sijith Salim