[Badgirlz-list] at yahoo hack day this last weekend

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/01/all-women-team-takes-yahoo-hack-day-top-prize/


All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize

Yahoo opened its corporate headquarters to hordes of
hackers, press and
others on Friday and Saturday for its open Hack Day.
After 24 hours of
hacking (with a break for a private Beck concert in
the Yahoo courtyard
the first evening), 54 projects were demo’d to the
crowd of about 400
people. Over 3,000 pictures from the event (tagged
“HackDay06?) are on
Flickr here.

A handful of teams were awarded prizes in categories
ranging from “Too
Useful” and “Best Schtick” to “Overall Winner”. The
overall winner,
determined by a quick huddle of judges after the demos
(David Filo,
Jeff
Weiner, Ash Patel, Bradley Horowitz, Chad Dickerson,
David Hornik,
Peter
Fenton, Gina Trapani, Salim Ismail and me) was a
hardware/software
combination device stashed inside a woman’s handbag.

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. The device was created by Diana Eng, Emily
Albinski and
Audrey
Roy, pictured to the right along with the device.

The other 53 projects weren’t bad, either. And I had a
wonderful time
emcee’ing the event. Something special happened at
Yahoo this week, and
I was very lucky to be part of it. Thank you to Yahoo,
and especially
Chad Dickerson (head of Yahoo Developer Network) and
Bradley Horowitz
(VP Product Strategy at Yahoo) for organizing this and
inviting me to
participate. This needs to become a regular event.
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