eTech 2007: Session: Hacking Yahoo

March 29, 2007

Chad Dickerson on Big Company Hacks at Yahoo!. This was a presentation on Yahoo's Hack Day event. Starts by showing off Yahoo's developer network and defining what is a hacker. Key principles of the HackDay @yahoo:

Build something in 24 hours
Present it to everyone at the end of the day
No prior review of projects
Thats it

Result: Hundreds os prototypes build. Shows internal E-Mail from Rob McCool on Yahoo's hack day and how excited the whole company was about the event. Why we wanted to do Open Hack Day: we wanted to do something big. Shows Hackday cycle of innovation and developers helping developers, an highly collaborative environment. Invited Beck, the hacker musician, to do a concert on the event. Explains the invitation process, how open it was, people were coming from all over the world, including people from the competition, which was totally OK. Open "request for invite". Asked only ONE question before acceptance: Are you going to build something ? Something special happened at Yahoo many press writers said. Hackday website

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[...] doing it’s European version of Hackday in London in early June. I’ve seen Yahoo’s presentation about the US version on eTech and it clicked on me. It’s a great idea for a variety of [...]

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