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David Filo and Christian Heilman of Hackday India in Bangalore
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This past weekend, Bangalore was the place to be if you were a hacker. More than 100 hackers from different parts of India participated in Yahoo’s open hackday session, held at the Taj Hotel in Bangalore. The 24-hour marathon session started late Friday evening (October 5th) and ended late Saturday evening (Oct 6, 2007) by which time the hackers seemed relieved that the deadline was over.
Each of the participating teams (31 in all) were given 90 seconds to demo their hack before a panel of seven judges. The judges included David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo!; Brad Horowitz, VP, Yahoo!, Christian Heilmann of Yahoo!, Ashish Gupta, managing partner of Helion Venture Partners, and others.
There were about 10 winners that won prizes under different categories.
Right after the winners were announced I caught up with David Filo and Christian Heilmann to find out what they thought of hackday India, which is the first hackday in Asia and the third in the world. The previous two hackdays were held in Santa Clara and London.
Tune in to find out what David and Christian had to say about hackday India and the creativity of Indian ...
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Yahoo's Joe Arnold on Open Hack Day in Bangalore
Right now, a bunch of hackers are huddled over their laptops in a downtown hotel in Bangalore. This 24-hour Open Hack Day marathon session is organized by Yahoo India R&D. Similar Open Hack Days were organized in Sunnyvale, Calif. and London. Bangalore is the third city. I ...
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Burning Man: Some Of The Cool Stuff We Saw!
There are so many words to describe Burning Man that it overwhelms me. If you’ve ever attended the annual desert gathering of artists, hackers, hippies and yuppies alike (it all happens about 100 miles north of Reno, Nev., in Black Rock City), then you know what I mean. ...
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Hack The Vote 2008
This edition of The Listening Post from Homeland Defense Week focuses on the latest news surrounding the security of electronic voting systems.
I’ve covered e-voting for more than three years, going back to my news reporting days and the first revelations that electronic voting systems were wide open security nightmares waiting ...
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Food Hacking: A Conversation with Marc Powell
It’s not every day you get to hack your dinner with an anarchist, computer whiz, chef — unless you are one like Marc Powell. We had the pleasure of attending a Unicorn Precinct 13 Supper Club and hanging out for a bit before the cooking frenzy. Marc shares ...
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RSA Security Bloggers Meetup in San Francisco. Somebody Call Security!
Taking a break from the bustle of RSA 2007, some of the best-known security bloggers got together at the Foreign Cinema, a French bistro and movie house in San Francisco, hosted by network security podcaster Martin McKeay. Check out the guest list, as we roam the crowd ...
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Hacking Linux with F5's Brian Hatch
Brian Hatch, F5 Networks‘ manager of IT network engineering talks with Network Security Podcaster Martin McKeay, about Linux OS security concerns, defenses and hacks. Hatch is the author of Hacking Linux Exposed, and he spoke with McKeay at the RSA 2007 Security Conference in San Francisco.
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Why Is Ethernet Inventor Bob Metcalfe Excited About Home Automation?
For a highly reliable and secure automated home, networking devices and systems is a core requirement. Eric Smith, a co-founder and CTO at Control4, talks with 3Com Founder Bob Metcalfe. Metcalfe has a well-established reputation as a gifted technologist, as “Mr. Ethernet” (here’s why), as a ...
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Jay Fichialos on Hack Days
Hack Days seems to be the in-thing amongst developers. The 24-hour coding challenge has caught the fancy of the tech community which is looking for various ways to make work more interesting.
Barely a few weeks after Yahoo conducted its much publicized public Hack Day, Sabre Labs is holding ...
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Getting Naked on the Net
Back in the Wild Wild West days of the Net (remember when it was called the “information superhighway”?), most individual contributors to the web were middle aged white males. Fast forward a decade later, and with the advent of free publishing tools and blogging, just about every demographic is ...
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