Results of yahoo hackday india 2007
The first Open Hackday in India was held between October 5th and 6th ,2007 in Bangalore! AbOUT 100 hackers took on the challenge to take the Yahoo! APIs and create something using them in 24 hours. In the end, we had 31 submitted hacks and each team or single hacker had his 90 seconds of fame presenting the hack on three massive screens to the whole assembled audience and the 7 judges.
There page is to facilitate the sharing of the links and hacks developed in those 24 hours.
Winners
Best "Non-Technical" hack: Yahoo! Hindi Search
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Members: Raxit Sheth
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Best "Really Needs an Interface" hack: Del.icio.us Tag Management
Description:A set of command-line Ruby scripts--shown in 10px Courier--that deals with del.icio.us tags. The first script identifies duplicates like "movie" and "movies", asks you which to keep and automatically renames all tags accordingly. The second script allows you to create bundles of tags instead of having to do them by hand inside del.icio.us.
Members: Siddhartha Reddy
Url:http://www.grok.in/hacks/delicious-tag-management/
"Most Parallel" hack: Collaborative Browsing
Description: Collabrative browsing by integrating two way (push and pull) communication between browsers. Allows n Number of people in a group to browse together. A hack which relies on xmpp for cummunication. The hack uses xmpp4moz , samplace and greasemonkey plugins. This is to demonstrate that collabrative browsing is possible without a server proxy. In fact, no server side coding is used at all.
Members: Antano Solar John , Karan Jude
Url:http://collabrowse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
Best "Desktop Hack": Desktop Wallpaper Love
Description:A Windows application that CREATES desktop wallpaper from Flickr images, filtered through Yahoo! Buzz feeds, resulting in a daily wallpaper of what's hot right now.
Members: O. R. Senthil Kumaran
Url:http://code.google.com/p/ngwallpaper/
"I wish I had a Mac" Hack: Third Tag
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Members: Gavin Fernandez
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"Most Viral" hack: Facebook Friend Folio
Description:See all your friends, their photos on Facebook and Flickr, their geographic location on a map, their horoscope and their favorite movies, all in one page instead of having to click through to each profile.
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Url:http://apps.facebook.com/chintan
"Best Self Expression" hack: Smart Editor
Description:A YUI Rich Text Editor that analyses the text you type while you type it and uses several APIs to show you relevant photos from Flickr, News, and Amazon.com. Results can be dragged into the editor if you want to enhance your text with multimedia.
Members: Jeetu Mirchandani, Madhusudhan Rao
Url:http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~jeetu/smart/
"Most likely to arrive at next Hack Day on time": Social Routing
Description:This application is a maps hack that uses the traffic APIs to show you how likely it is to arrive some place in time. As the really cool social extra it also interfaces with twitter to allow for your friends or "people in the field" to report street blockages and gridlock as and where they occur and offers shortcuts and alternatives based on the wisdom of the community using the app.
Members: Pradeep BV, Pooran Prasad, Rohit Talukdar, Cherian Thomas, Arun Ramanatham
Url:http://www.socialrouting.com/
"Brainiest Hack": YaHealer!
Description: YaHealer was a hack that allows doctors to share photos of a brain scan over two Yahoo! widgets that are connected over the web and change in sync. The hack showed a photo set of a brain scan and allowed the first user to go back and forth in the set, highlight parts of the brain and chat with the second user. The changes on the first widget would be reflected in the other and there was also a multiple undo option. This would allow for collaborative annotation of large sets of images (for example also architectural blueprints) without either user having to download the whole set of photos.
Members: Arun B, Naseer Ahmed, Shourya Sarcar, Vijay J.
Url: http://shouryalive.com/blog/winners-at-yahoo-hackday-india/
"Best in Show": Maps Doodle
Description: Hack-a-doodle
Members: Parashuram
Url: http://dy-verse.blogspot.com/2007/10/hack-doodle.html
The other hacks
FlickOff!
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favrRoots
Description:A hack that allows you to create tree structures from data, sort them by dragging and dropping and turn them into voting interfaces.
Members: Bhasker V Kode
Url:http://bhaskervk.com/libraries/hackdayindia/
zooky
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Members: BalaSundaraRaman
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Google Search Assist
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For now this is it
Description: For Now This is It is a chatbot which monitored chat rooms, and played interesting choices of music based on what was currently being discussed in the chat room. The bot used Yahoo! term extraction API in order to extract meaningful words out of conversations. Members: Shreyas Srinivasan and Tejas Dinkar
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Dark Humour
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No man's land
Description:You have moved to a new city and facing the harsh realities of it. No more with this mashup service. The complete city guide helping you to navigate through the city life in a breeze. Whether its finding your way out or Locating the nearest ATM, or medical store. Everything at one place. Guessing what's happening in the city. The Events@City navigates you through the upcoming events, while the Entertainment section features video highlights of films, talks and etc. And finally being part of a city is never complete without knowing the culture and life in the city, where our CityPics comes in place. A nice handy mashup for all your city woes. i
Members:Vivek Juneja & Peeyush Aggarwal
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Jugad
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A search mashup that allows you to create statistics of search results on the fly, like comparing the net income of certain countries. Members:
Markandey Singh
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Jugad
How big can you think?
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Daily Prophet
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Visualizr
Description: Renders graphical stories from text using the Yahoo! Term Extractor and Yahoo! Image Search.
Members: Amit Rana, Rajat Bhatla, Shyamal Mehta
Url: http://www.techjini.org
SlickRnot!
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Wiki Changers -
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Members: Sidu Ponnappa
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Offline Flickr
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Seam Carver for Flickr
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YUI RTE Transliteration Plugin
Description: A plugin to the Yahoo Rich Text Editor to allow people type in Indian Languages
Members: Anishek Agarwal, Babu Srithar, Parashuram
Url:http://dy-verse.blogspot.com/2007/10/transliteration-component-in-yui.html
Yahoo! Search Mashup
Description: Shows results from various yahoo services like yahoo search, videos, images, answers, news etc
Members: Balachandar Muruganantham, Vibash, Yusuf, Sridhar Rao
Url: Search Download
SUPER Meebo
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Blogckr
Description:A mashup which can be used on a blog to pull up photos from flickr.com based on tags used for posts in the blog.
Members: Ajo Paul and Relton Alexander
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Video News Mashup
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HackBuzzer
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