I went to the Yahoo! Open Hack day London last Saturday. I waited for quite a long time this event, and I’m pleased to say that all my expectations were fully met. A big number of Yahoo enthusiasts (and a guy with a Google T-shirt) arrived at the Congress Center early in the morning for a 24h session of hacking and fun events.
I was very happy to meet my ex Yahoo colleagues, seeing that they’re doing great even during hard times for the company.
I enjoyed mostly the talks about geo technologies and yql. I got so many ideas to implement in my iphone application:)
In particular YQL is a very interesting technology that allows an application to query a number of Yahoo and external databases by means of restful requests.

Check some pictures on Flickr.

Finally after 2 years Yahoo! is back with his Open Hack Day event in London! The 24h non stop event will take place in London the 9th and 10th of May, featuring tech talks on Yahoo!’s technologies, games, food, and of course plenty of hacking. If you are planning to join don’t forget to register visiting the official web page.

Here is the map to the venue:

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