Hack Day 30 days ago :: And we’re still talking about it!
The lasting memory (and effects) of Yahoo!’s first Public Hack Day are still with us. It’s been a month since the event, but the buzz is still around.
Everybody here is still talking about it and folks who didn’t attend are asking more and more about what it was like.
The interest in what Yahoo! has to offer the development community continues to excite me and I think the determiniation and creativity of so many that were present for the public hack day proves it.
So far, I have not heard about future Public Hack Days, but I only hope there will be another one. I’m sure it will be bigger and more successful each time it occurs.
Yahoo! Maps on the Silver Screen
As a movie enthusiast and film & television major, I’ve always aspired to get my work on the movie screen. I never knew that it would come (initially I hope) in the form of a mashup I did with the Yahoo! Maps API.
To promote the upcoming Da Vinci Code DVD (due Nov. 14), Sony has put together another trailer featuring interviews from Ron Howard, Dan Brown and the Yahoo! Maps mashup I did back in June. It appears Yahoo! is handling a special contest with the studio built around several hidden clues put into the original movie release.
I originally coded the mashup back for the theatrical release. It had the map panning and zooming into Paris, marking 4 locations of exclusive clips from the movie. To my knowledge it was very successful, and can still be viewed on Yahoo! Movies.
If you see the trailer in theaters, please let me know what movie you saw it with and where. I have only been informed about it by a colleague and can’t wait to see it with my own eyes.
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