The Hack Day winner: Blogging in Motion A pretty useless and silly thing, but damn cool, a perfect hack. It is a hand bag with a cell phone attached to a pedometer which will take a photo every so many steps and then automatically upload to Flickr and their blog. A funny application of this would be attached to my golf bag, fairway, fairway, trees, sand, etc... On the team was Diana Eng who was also on Project Runway last season, which is why I recognized her all weekend. Though it took me until afterwards to figure it out, I kept thinking I worked with her at my last job. I often confuse tv and reality.
Here's a gang of links on hack day here: Hackday.org, Yahoo Developer, check out the Beck video here, Techcrunch article, Venture Blog article, Flickr cluster, or a Technorati search
The stuff I worked on for Maya's Mom is still behind closed doors until we emerge from our closed beta. It was some straight forward combination of Yahoo Answers, Geocoding and a Flickr tie-in. Unfortunately I lost network connection right before presenting, so it was a little tough to demo the API calls, oh well. The nice thing is using Yahoo's Developer APIs I could add new features to an existing site, quickly and easily providing our users more value. Thanks Yahoo! for opening up so much.
If you want to see the presentations video check out Blip.tv, part 1 and part 2. Mine is in part 1, I ended up going 4th, you can see my technical difficulties. The best presentation is in part 2, I don't see time codes so just fast forward until you see the Patrick Stewart puppet.
Here are a few friends hacks: