Yahoo! India R&D Announces Open Hack Day Winners for 2009

Yahoo! India R&D announced the top 9 winners of Open Hack Day 2009. The event received a whopping 500 registrations of which 361 were short listed comprising of 303 hackers and 58 Info Geeks. After 24 hours of hack, fun, music and food, there where 66 unique hacks from 125 hackers that were submitted. List of the 9 winning hacks (& categories): [1] Best Search Inside - Y! Grep; [2] Best Gone in 90 seconds - BOSS in 90 seconds; [3] Best Social Travel Helpdesk - Travel Assist; [4] Best Keynote from a Traffic Jam - Slideshare for Mobile; [5] Best Crossing the Language Chasm - Translate This; [6] Best Confidential Messages - Redact Mail; [7] Best Socially Mobile - Kiva Mobile; [8] Best Navigation Bangalore Traffic - MyBus; [9] Best Built from Scratch - Search Engine with Hybrid (Human & Artificial Intelligence by API (Advancing Predictive Intelligence)).

Open Hack Day conducted on Feb 14-15 in Bangalore, saw participation from across the country and also a few foreign nationals. David Filo, Co-Founder & Chief Yahoo! kicked off the 2nd ‘Open Hack Day India '. This was the 7th Open Hack Day being organized by Yahoo! worldwide. The event had its beginning in 2006 in Sunnyvale and since then Yahoo! has taken it globally to London, Taiwan and for the second time in Bangalore. For more information on the winners and their categories please log on to http://openhack2009.pbwiki.com/