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This is a tool to help people see who they're voting for. It tracks movement through the political partys for the current politicians, shows stats and other useful information.
A hack that plays sounds according to the flow of recent Flickr activities. The frequency of the notes is determined by the number of recent entries per second and their pitch is determined by the server's response time.
Raw images are obtained using YUI,YQL (in this example i use 'select * from flickr.photos.interestingness(100)'). Those are mixed one with another to form different images. Mixing means watermarking, setting transparency, setting how many and in which order pictures shall be mixed to form one ultimate picture. In my example I use two pictures with 50% transparency each, one of it setting the size of the final product. Due to Ajax implementation and to my Php server settings to aproxi…
Tax Evasion Reporting application - Civil Society Hack - Android and Web application The role of our application is to allow users to report tax evasion, one of the biggest problems in Romanian economy. Android application: Download from: http://evaziune.serviceautobucuresti.ro/evaziune.apk Online demo: http://evaziune.serviceautobucuresti.ro/mobile2/ Using Foursquare API to get the venues the user can submit the value of a purchase and whether they have received a receipt for that a…
A video demo is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V7HfypLod0 TheBatMail is a web app (Yahoo Mail App) that integrates directly into Yahoo! Mail. Our app has 3 main featurers or hacks if you want: threaded discussions, social discovery and email editing. Lets start with the first one: Threaded discussions - all your emails are now organized as discussions, you no longer have one email for every reply, but instead all the emails about certain topic or subject are gro…
An HTML 5 canvas rendering framework which features a physics engine and a Node.js server implementing a Worms 2 clone.
This hack allows you to listen to local music anywhere in the world, or search for specific music to a certain area. All you need to do is share your location and you can discover local artists and listen to local music tracks. We are using Yahoo! Query Language, Yahoo! Media Player and last.fm music database. The project is open and you can download the sources from the github.
I've live blogged the event, offering for users who didn't have the possibility to come, all the info about the projects and the organisation.
multiplayer network snake game using node.js as a server, json as a data exchange format between server and client, web-sockets as default communication protocol, canvas for display
So everybody today is social: you give ratings, share them, look for other shared ratings. But where is an old fashion database? We made an app. for a Windows Phone 7. On the server, we have built from a free open online database( http://www.freebase.com/), a rating system, based upon the current ratings for producers, actors, directors and so on. So, we will predict what will be the rating of future movies, by only seeing the crew. It's a typical old school "maths" approach, on a radical…
Used to woke up and immediately pick up the phone to connect yourself to the real world ? Don't do it anymore ! Now you have the Yahoo Farm available for that ! All the cloud data you need at a blink of an eye, right there in your bedroom ! The Yahoo Farm is a real-world wooden diorama, showing a real world farm, reduced at a 1:50 scale. It will tell you how is gonna be the weather today (you just look at the hand-painted background), it will tell you how many emails you have re…
Ymotion helps you get the an idea about the mood of your audience at a presentation or in a touristic place by leveraging face detection and face gestures recognition techniques.
MoodMusic tracks the visitor's location and finds music that matches the weather at his location. Uplifting music for a sunny morning, slow rock for a romantic rainy evening.
A class that can be used in Performance Test automation for consolidating CSV performance reports. It targets a long-time unsolved problem with test automation, the time wasted on putting together 48 or more test reports daily. This class will fetch all individual reports from a directory, parse the performance data, and output it into a single report that can be imported in a spreadsheet or publishing software.
PIT is a tool which allows it's users to report and view the status of the roads which they use by submitting PITs from they're mobile phones. It closely adheres to the KISS principle and tries to do what it was set-up to do and do it well. We hope this resource can be of use to local communities and to lead to roads being repaired more quickly. To develop it we used Ruby on Rails as a web server, YUI for UI components, Yahoo maps to display our info and Yahoo Place to decode the GPS …
A rss reader with a gaming system.
Using NodeJS, Yahoo Messenger API and XMPP we created a bridge between Yahoo Messenger and GoogleTalk (or any XMPP server). The application stays online on both networks and relays messages. We implemented a quick reminder bot to help us also be connected to the reality.
We are tracking from http log last entries the customers and we use ip2location, geo and image search to determine what they were looking for on our site. Plus a special hack, to determine the customer contact information based on his IP, to forward him to marketing departament to be contacted personally in case his visit does not end up with a conversion/order. Everything what you see is in one 57k file, 1200 lines of code, including graphics, no libraries, no includes.
Yahoo Messenger Bot that provides information such as weather and time to the user through instant messaging
We had plenty of time last night to make this too in 1-2 hours, even if we wanted to end in something else:) Is the romanian map, with beautifull places, at each refresh we random them, on click you get the informations for that specific place from Yahoo. Is not something extraordinary, but is cute! This could go further into opening the regions at click and show all places to visit, but probably another time:)
The Web Trace empowers users with value added searches, searches that are handy just for the ones familiar with backdoor hacking, are now available to less technical people through our customized queries. With one click, find out what information is available about one individual, including pictures and news, or you can search only PDFs or MSOffice documents.
A Eclipse plug-in based on Yahoo Messenger API that enables programmers around the world to share their code in real-time.
Upload an image of you - "Face off" finds other photos you are in on Flickr, post them on Facebook and get notifications when new photos of you are uploaded. "Face off" uses the Flickr API and face recognition software from Face.com.
Nexi.me is a place to look for talented people when you're ready to build your next software project. You enter the technical skills that you're looking for and nexi.me will suggest the people from your Linkedin network that are the best match. https://github.com/ciprianmardare/ShaolinCoders
Using node.js, socket.io we've created a web client hosted on different Linux servers and, in addition, using MTR for obtaining infos about the pack's route from one or many server to an address provided by the user, we are able to place the locations through which the packes have passed on the Yahoo Maps.
Graphs reported infectious outbreaks from multiple news sources on a variety of maps including a 3D globe. Also finds relevant tweets and photos from the local alea and allows for reporting and emergency planning
This ideea could be taken eaven further and we could have the same server manage online adds ( based on ip of the visitors we can query yql for the data we need to make targeted ads ) . Make one step further and we can display a flash ad that was originaly sent to be displayed on the web in a billboard given the suitable conditions ( arduino gathered data and yql ) meet .
Worm using XSS for spread.
There is always a problem with security on the internet. This hack helps protect Yahoo!Messenger conversations from being stolen. As we know, there are all kinds of different Y!M Archive Decoders, so this hack takes control over Y!M Messenger application and adds an additional layer of encryption on the messages, so that on being stolen, it would be impossible to read them.
Search for a hash tag or anything on twitter using YQL and get the location of users that tweeted on a map. The result is a nice overview of how people share the same events all over the world.
A small multiplayer game written in node.js, HTML5, CSS3 and YUI in which users have to insert a word that starts with the last two characters of the previous word. They get points depending on how the complex the word they enter is and lose points for not answering in time.
Think of "Social RFID" as an offline version of the "Like" button. Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to pull up your phone and navigate through all the entangled menus for a simple "Like on facebook" or maybe a status update on Twitter? Well our RFID hack allows you to do that in an instant and it's completely automated based on your RFID node. So, the next time you enter an conference hall or see a car you like in the showroom, just swipe your tag and your preference is auto…
The problem our application solves is that it helps visitors in foreign countries who don't know what to visit. Tourist guide finds the most popular objectives to be visited. The popularity is based on the number of pictures from flickr, foursquare, gowalla and panoramio near the place the visitor is. The application also finds the best route between the objectives and shows it.
This project aims to bridge citizens with elected public officials in order to better address the needs of the community as identified by its members. We provide the tools so that you, as a citizen, can report issues and monitor how they are addressed. At the same time we support the public officials to better advertise their stewardship to the community.
We have done a great hack, the Yahoo! Messenger status reflecting the electric energy consumed by your house hold appliances. For example your wireless router, washing machine and even computer. So for each of these electric devices we created a Yahoo! Messenger ID. You cand add it to your list an see the status reflecting the instant power consumption, the total energy consumed. Furthermore, the current and voltage can be monitored.
A simple guitar tab search engine that you use when you're to lazy to reach for the keyboard and you just want to play a song. We are using the search.web table in YQL.
This hack feed your animal at regular time.And it send you a message on your Yahoo Messenger ID when you must to refill the compartiment with food.
Mobile app for Yahoo Answer for different mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Symbian). A demo on Symbian platform will be available, using an device and/or simulator. For the rest of the platforms, a web app is available
Y!vents is a social hack that helps people share their plans in form of events. For all this to work, the hack uses YQL to get all the user information, Yahoo Maps API & YUI for creating and adding checkpoints and events to the map. For a more user friendly approach we also used jquery. The main goal of our application is to help friends get in touch and hang out togheter.
Quick info uses Yahoo BOSS and YQL to quickly pull information about a particular subject from various sources.
K-1 Fighters info specialized search script
A forex-like based game, with real data provided by yql from the table yahoo.finance.xchange.
Bluetooth extension to Yahoo Messenger
Hardware hack, implemented using a Arduino Duemilanove. We tried to simulate an automated process using temperature&humidity&light sensors (instead of a level sensor). These properties are monitored from an iOS device and critical properties can be set to keep the process in balance and working. A future extension should imply servos thus completing full process automatization.
Recognize body signs using kinect.
Both a location based hack and hardware hack. We want to achieve geolocation and location based services in a building. So for we build an arduino enabled device that using wifi and RDID tags we can pinpoint locations in buildings. Also because uploading a plan of the building is very hard we also build an WebGL enabled map builder that is easy to use for everyone.
Thousands of photographers are looking for great photo shoot locations every day. They struggle, digging through an increasing amount of data. (A flickr search for churches near New York returns 25,000 results) We thought of giving them a helping hand. Our hack, Wanderplaces, allows photographers to discover great photo shoot locations based on various themes and categories. We selected a couple of venue categories (i.e: hotels, churches, towers, etc) and mined Flickr to identify the ta…
This is a concept demonstratig a fun way of displaying your activity history by creating an animation clip with your profile as the main character and your friends as secondary characters. This is not a complete work
Capture the flag and dominate the world. Learn what others have done before you and enjoy the victory dance. (HTML5, Javascript, YUI, YQL)
Basically, nowadays you have to work hard to have a normal life and by doing that you sometimes forget to apreciate your town, your country, your family. We want to remind people to look after important things in their life and be proud of who they are and where they are so maybe one day they'll thank yahoo for reminding this to them. (Helps interaction with individuals)
Search secrets using YQL and Wiki Leaks Data Table
LinkBeam is an instant link transfer solution between your devices. Click on one bookmarklet (or browser extension) installed on your desktop browser to transfer the current URL to your device(s) and also the other way around. All the information is sent with push notification services via web. Our working prototype is available for iOS devices and Google Chrome browser, but our plan is to support other mobile platforms and all browsers as well.
A program that makes possible the identification of forest cuts, working with satellite images. This application will be used by the general public (crowd sourced) and checked by the organizers (environmental NGO) in order to build the first public inventory of deforested areas in the country. The complete report drawn from the application will be used to notify the authorities, and the media, so that the situation be checked and cleared up officially.
Generates music playlists based on your various input.
hack uses YQL to get data for app's registered member from his social profile (yahoo contacts and google profile)
Data Table with all TV programs that can be used to show what is on TV at a certain time.
It's a 2 wheel robot remotely controlled by your drawings on yahoo messenger in doodle.
A brain challenging game with embeded subliminal messages that trains you to be better at teamworking, helping people, protecting the enviorement and most of all, being a better person.
Our hack allows users to quickly visualize on a map about music events in a particular area and provide a music sample. The main tecnology used (other) is Yahoo Pipes
Detects if a person is available (in front of the computer) and changes the users' status from Idle to his status and vice-versa. Also, we use a servo-motor controlled hand to alert the user that his status has changed.
Display Royal Navy submarines participated in World War II on Yahoo Maps with a historic timeline.
Using this site people will be able to evaluate the public relations institutions and workers.
You enter your last.fm username, dates and distance and we find which of your top artists are playing in the region