#hackday

Y! Hack Day tweets and flickrs in random motion

"I decided to jot down some observations and thoughts on launching successful social networking development platforms…"

"A presentation for Dundee University's Hack Day"

"My introductory speech for the University Hack Day in Dundee"

"When you peel back the layers at Yahoo!, the core of innovation is usually a small group of people building something they think is really cool."

"The first Hackday in India is over! About 100 hackers took on the challenge to take the Yahoo! APIs and create something using them in 24 hours."

"I’m happy to say I’m headed to Yahoo’s next Open Hack Day, this time in Bangalore!"

"Even after seeing Hack Day work internally a bunch of times and now twice in the open format with external developers I’m still amazed every time. There’s something magical about the event."

"If I could boil down the Hack Day ethos to one simple statement, it would be this one: expect the unexpected."

"Hack day is really part of the process at Yahoo! now. It’s so effective that it’s getting hard to imagine how the company unlocked smart, innovative and actionable ideas without it."

"The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures."