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August 25, 2006

Announcing Yahoo (Open) Developer Hack Day

Michael Arrington

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A few months ago I was able to hang out at Yahoo Hack Day, and see first hand the energy that developers are willing to put in to their own projects and ideas. Yahoo is now taking the Hack Day idea one step further.

On Friday, September 29, 2006, Yahoo will open up its Sunnyvale headquarters to all developers for a 24 hour Hack Day, followed by a really cool party on Saturday night. If you are a developer, and have an idea for a cool one-day hack project, this will definitely be a fun event for you. We are working with Yahoo on this event, and my official duties include “presiding over the festivities”.

More information is at HackDay.org, although the site just went up and will be updated in the next week or so with additional details. Any developer can participate, although there will probably be a submission process for hack ideas and some method for limiting the total number of teams just to keep things under control.

If you are interested in participating, sign up on the site.

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  1. jrl

    August 26th, 2006 at 1:22 am

    cool. can anyone participate or just go to the party?

  2. Skip Trace

    August 26th, 2006 at 5:19 am

    Sounds like it could unleash some interesting ideas for Yahoo as well as the developers.

  3. Jason Coleman

    August 26th, 2006 at 7:22 am

    We need one of these on the east coast.

  4. Dave McClure

    August 26th, 2006 at 8:08 am

    nice job, brad & chad… sounds like a blast ;)

    any prizes for best hack? any sponsor opportunities? do tell.

    - dave “celebrate your inner geek” mcclure
    http://500hats.typepad.com/

  5. Andrew

    August 26th, 2006 at 9:14 am

    That sounds like so much fun. I’m tempted to fly out to CA to do it. Can we see one in Atlanta or on the east cost? :)

  6. Greg

    August 26th, 2006 at 9:16 am

    I think you have way too many parties:)

  7. Cruncher

    August 26th, 2006 at 10:19 am

    So what exactly is it, do not have much time to digg in.

    Like you go and write a hack fo differrent things on the web and then som prizes? why whole day 24 hours? any example on what sort of things people demo?

  8. David

    August 26th, 2006 at 10:30 am

    So does this make you the Head of Hack Michael?

    I’d have to agree with the above commenter saying to have this type of event only at the headquarters is a mistake.

  9. Observer

    August 26th, 2006 at 4:02 pm

    Speaking of Yahoo, does anyone know if you can perform an advanced search like the one I’m about to describe? For instance, on Google.LA, e.g. http://www.google.la/, I can click on the “Advance Search” button, and then on the Domain box, enter “.la” to search only for Dot-LA websites. Of course, I can also enter keywords during the same search to narrow the scope of my search. Alternativey, I can simplify this type of search by typing in “site:.la” for all Dot-LA websites, or “keyword site:.la”, e.g. “southland site:.la” for all Dot-LA websites that contain that keyword. Perhaps one of the hackers could suggest this type of functionality on Yahoo’s search engine.

  10. Observer

    August 26th, 2006 at 4:14 pm

    I stand corrected. It appears you can type in “site:.la” or “keyword site:.la” directly in the search box on http://www.yahoo.com as you can in Goolgle.LA and get results only for Dot-LA websites. Cool!!!

  11. Observer

    August 26th, 2006 at 4:15 pm

    Before anyone says anything, I’m fully aware that you can perform the same search on http://www.google.com. I’m just partial to Google.LA.

  12. Curtis Edmond

    August 26th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

    I’m a bit confused though. Here, it seems like the event is open to anyone who cares to join, evidenced by this quote:

    “If you are a developer, and have an idea for a cool one-day hack project, this will definitely be a fun event for you.”

    But on the Hack Day site itself, they make the event out to be more exclusive…

    “Now we’re opening up Yahoo! itself to a select group of hackers and special guests for a weekend festival of hacking, camping (yes, the tents-in-the-outdoors kind–we have really, really nice grass!), music, and good times.”

    I’m not going either way, so just color me curious :)

  13. Pinger (Breaking News)

    August 26th, 2006 at 9:16 pm

    pinger opened its beta- the sign in process is lengthy but should work…

  14. RSR

    August 26th, 2006 at 11:23 pm

    In this case… you should be a developer in order to participate… I guess.

  15. Nik Cubrilovic

    August 27th, 2006 at 1:10 am

    one of the hack challenges will be to come up with a new party guest list system for techcrunch :)

  16. Konrad

    August 27th, 2006 at 8:37 am

    Hey Michael! Great site! We are having a HUGE UNFORGETABLE PARTY with the Tycoons girls this Halloween October 31st at our private estate in Orange County California and we would like to invite you and your friends. The blog and picture taking opportunities will be endless.
    Live entertainment will be provided by the one and only DJ Nasty.

  17. Jeff Lindsay

    August 28th, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    I guess I should chime in with a mention of SuperHappyDevHouse, the original open developer hack day that happens every six weeks.

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