Judging the Hack Day entries…
October 1st, 2006
The Yahoo Hackday was totally awesome… 500 people, 70-80 hacks (of which 54 were finished/presented) and an energy level off the charts. Mike did a great job MC’ing the whole thing and has the usual excellent coverage over here.
There’s more here , here and here.
For TV coverage, check out this YouTube video. Beck put on an amazing show and put out a video (scroll down a page) dedicated to Yahoo!
It was quite an honor to be asked to judge the event… here’s the full list of judges:
- David Filo – co-founder (see his post about it here)
- Ash Patel – CPO
- Jeff Wiener – SVP, Search & Marketplace
- Bradley Horowitz – VP, Product Strategy
- Chad Dickerson – Head of Yahoo Developer Network
- David Hornik – Partner, August Capital
- Peter Fenton, Partner, Benchmark Capital
- Gina Trapani, LifeHacker.com
- Mike Arrington (MC too)
- Salim Ismail (er, that’s me).
For a list of photos of the judges pondering the entries (and laughing our heads off), see the top 6 photos here.
For full video of the hacks, see Blip.tv here and here. See Bradley’s keynote here.
If you can click ‘next’ with some rapidity, scroll through all the 3000+ photos here.
The event was clearly a home run for Yahoo (congrats Brad & Chad and all involved). Opening up their APIs is a smart thing to do and will further wire the company into the infrastructure of the internet.
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1. :Ben Metcalfe Blog »&hellip | October 2nd, 2006 at 11:43 am
[...] Well organized What can I say, the event was very well organized. It didn’t feel too ridged and structured – apart from the presentations, which had to be kept short as there were over 50 of them to be judged (more on that from Salim Ismail). But the rest of the time was very relaxed. When events run smoothly, like this one did, you know that there are lots going on behind the scene to achieve that. Food just ‘magically appeared’, the cafeteria suddenly was cleared of it’s tables and chairs, trash kept disappearing from the floors… People in the background were responsible for ensuring the event ran seamless. [...]
2. Moblogging purse takes Ha&hellip | October 2nd, 2006 at 6:33 pm
[...] We’re all pretty wiped out from the weekend, which was described as transformative, off the hook, familial and hard to top. People came from Boston, Florida, New York, Tennessee, Chicago, Vancouver, and Abbotsford, Ontario. The hacks were judged by David Filo, Jeff Weiner, Ash Patel, Bradley Horowitz, Chad Dickerson, David Hornik, Peter Fenton, Gina Trapani, Salim Ismail and Mike Arrington. [...]
3. Alex Piner | October 26th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Hey Salim,
Very nice to meet you at Commerce.net.
Keep in touch,
Best,
Alex
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