I am right now at the open hack day in Bangalore, India and just finished giving the keynote presentation showing people what hacking means and how to present at a hack day:

The slides

What the hack?

The resources I talked about:

• Yahoo Developer Network for everything about Yahoo offers
• Google Visualisation API for displaying data in an interesting way
• Programmable Web for APIs
• AppEngine for your app hosting
• GitHub for code hosting
• Heroku for Ruby Hosting
• Yahoo YAP for apps running on Yahoo
• YQL Geo for all your Geo needs in JavaScript
• CSS Grids Builder for creating layouts that work across browsers
• YUI for building interactive web apps
• YQL for mixing and matching the web

The Audio recording

The audio of the recording is available on archive.org:

• Download the MP3 (35 MB)

And the demos:

• GooHooBi uses Google, Bing and Yahoo at the same time for a search query
• The screencast of building GooHooBi shows live how I used YQL to build it
• Keywordfinder.org finds keywords related to a keyword using Yahoo BOSS
• UK house prices uses government data to compare house prices in the UK. It uses the CSS Bar Charts API
• Around You finds you on the planet and shows you Wikipedia content around you
• Warwickshire Hack shows you all the cool things to see in Warwickshire. (source on GitHub, Screencast on YouTube)
• Flickr Collector allows you to find and collect flickr photos. (source on GitHub, Screencast on YouTube)
• FIFA 2010 visualisation
• GeoThis and the hack presentation: