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Sorry I’m a day late guys darn sleep thing caught up with me, just a few things to say on Hackday in london this year and then the blog will return back to normal. Hackday was fantastic and a big big thankyou to the BBC and Yahoo teams, all those people in red tshirts (quick not to the organisers “red tshirts” have you not watched any scifi?) indeed thanks to BT and CISCO for providing the network well most of the time…
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After showing you our amazing non computer hack it is only fair we allow you explore it fully via our very nifty API (Pipes version might come soon)

This is quite a complicated process so pay attention,
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Hackday has not quite gone as well as I suspect some had planned, in case you hadn’t noticed
the UK has been suffering rather nasty weather and this descended on Alexander palace with a series of lightning strikes, now you might think a large building with a really large aerial on top of a hill would be use to such strange activity but you would be wrong. An interesting side effect of the strike was the opening of the fire vents in the roof can you tell what happened next?
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So the blow by blow commentary went out of the window about the time of the Lightning strike on the building… Read the rest of this entry »

New Geo Services
Yahoo development team,

Mor Naaman
http://developer.yahoo.com/yrb

Geo Api mobile
Demonstration of Yahoo maps and flickr but unlike the previous session this is not pulling the pictures but mearly the number of times a location is mentioned. The name of the locations on the map font sizes was based on the number of times its been photoed, he then went on to demo the same technique in London integrated with photomontage which changed based on location.

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Session 2 is on the sofa’s as opposed to the main stage, lots of apologetic people in red T-Shirts sheepishly avoiding the lack of internet (though to be fair I’m up) the sofa are somewhat dark but comfy!

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Creating a BBC News widget Session 1

Kent Brewster
http://www.kentbrewster.com/bbc-widget/
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So its now 8:20 AM I have been on a high speed train (wireless internet!) nearly an hour heading for Hackday 2007, I’m really looking forward to the event which is being hosted by the BBC at Alexander palace. With the wireless internet at the event and through the power of power blogging hopefully I will be able to bring you the various sessions I attend, along with a mystery guest who will also be in attendance so what am I looking forward to?

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