Yahoo! Hackday
Congratulations to Sharan and Vincent !
They came in 3rd in Yahoo! first open Hack Day under the Messenger section. The 2 of them are currently in Silicon Valley on the NOC program.
Below are the details:
Yahoo! Hack Day
29 – 30 September 2006
Background: In the context of Yahoo! Hack Day, a “hack” is a 24-hour project that demonstrates something cool. Technologist and author Eric Raymond defines the word “hack” more generally as “an appropriate application of ingenuity. Whether the result is a patchwork job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went into it”. At Yahoo! Hack Day, teams are asked to build something on one of Yahoo’s platforms or APIs.
Website- http://www.hackday.org/
NCSV Team
Best Messenger Hack, 3rd place: Ask questions to Y! Answers from Messenger
Description: Allows users to ask questions by typing their request into a messenger secondary window
Team: Sharan and Vincent
Yahoo! APIs USED: Messenger API
Sharan H Makhija
Faculty of Engineering
Major in Electrical Engineering
Woon Yongjian, Vincent
School of Business
Major in Finance
Click on the link below to read Vincent's blog on his experience and thoughts in the competition.
www.woonzai.com