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Murray Rowan
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OBJECTIVES

• Y! Hackdays

• What is a hack[er]?

• What’s going to happen in the next 30 hours?

• What’s expected of you

• What you can expect from us
YAHOO! HACKDAYS: INNOVATING SINCE 2005
WHAT’S THE VALUE PROPOSITION


  Technology awareness & adoption
                                            Reputation
                          Innovation
User Feedback Loop
                                       Help identify our stars
       Identifying Opportunities
                                   Hiring
  Education
                                        Relationship Building
Hacking != Cracking
WHAT IS A HACKER?



A hacker is a passionate, skilled and creative
technologist who thrives on building innovative
solutions to real world problems.
WHAT IS A HACK?


An innovative solution to a real world problem;
a quick and dirty workaround, yet effective.
REVOLUTION HACKS
MOTORBIKE HACKS
Y! Hackday Examples
BAD ASS ADs
Responsive Design Ads
http://f1results.socialminds.com.br/
ANATOMY OF A HACK

To build a typical web hack you need an
idea, some data, a way to access that
data, development tools and a user interface.
Scratch your
 own itch!
The web is full of data
ProgrammableWeb.Com– 6372 APIs
http://developer.yahoo.com
http://developer.yahoo.com/everything.html
USE YQL FOR DATA ACCESS

SELECT * FROM INTERNET
Select {what} from {service} where {condition}




      http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
YQL CONSOLE




 http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo
FINDING LOCATIONS IN CONTENT
http://icant.co.uk/geomaker/
CK: dj0yJmk9YWF3ODdGNWZPYjg2JmQ9WVdrOWVsWlZNRk5KTldFbWNHbzlNVEEyTURFNU1qWXkmcz1jb25zdW1lcnNlY3JldCZ4PTUz
       Secret: a3d93853ba3bad8a99a175e8ffa90a702cd08cfa




http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
USE YUI FOR USER INTERFACE




   http://developer.yahoo.com/yui
COCKTAILS - MOJITO
USE MOJITO TO STRUCTURE YOUR CODE




http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/
• Talks
• Hacking
• Presentations & Judging
• Winners
• Full Schedule
  • http://publicis2012.hacker.yahoo.net/#meetings
HACKDAY CHALLENGES

1. Advertising or Brand Campaign
Create a unique and engaging advertising campaign or brand
    experience for one of your clients.
2. Digital Media Product or Feature
    Create a product or feature that solves a problem in the digital
    media marketplace.
3. eCommerce Product or Feature
   Create a product or feature that solves a problem in the online
   retail space.
Register your team & hack here
TECHNICAL YAHOOS ON HAND TO HELP
OUR ESTEEMED JUDGES
JUDGING CRITERIA
1. Solves a real problem for Publicis or its clients.
2. Displays creative thinking and pushes the
   boundaries of what we’ve seen before.
3. Functional Prototype using production-worthy
   technologies. No PowerPoint.
4. Must have been built during the 24 hour hackday.
5. Has a great user experience.
6. Uses technology or data in a new or interesting
   way.
7. Uses technology or data from Yahoo!
FRIDAY, JUNE 29TH
ACCESSIBILITY AT YAHOO! AND BEYOND

The rise of HTML 5 Ads
presents a unique
opportunity to make
advertising more
accessible and increase
yield…

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Yahoo! Publicis Hackday 2012 Intro

Editor's Notes

  1. 16 Open Hacks ; Countless Internal Hacks ; Countless HackUs ; + rhok+ grass roots
  2. Private: Partner, Agency – collaboration, relationship, awareness of tech, awareness of business objectives and capabilities, business opportunities..
  3. 1985
  4. Hollywood glamorization of hackers – They depict them with looks that match their skills! In my experience, that’s rarely the case. No offence.. 
  5. Hackers are:People like you and me.Creative developers and designers.Love technology.Love building things.Come to events like this.It’s a term of great respect!Wear that badge with pride!
  6. Crack Days are even more open to media misinterpretation.
  7. This Creativestudent from India was really determined to have some warm milk before going to bed.
  8. http://hack.corp.yahoo.com/v3/
  9. http://produce.yahoo.com/~marcov/hackday/Who said ads have to be annoying or boring? Our 'BAA' engine allows ads that users won't only not mind, they'll WANT to interact with them. Using the latest HTML5 video technology combined with Javascript and CSS3 tricks our ads will blow the audience away.Based on the original pioneering work of Francis Phan we developed a data format, a runtime JS engine and an editor to greatly speed up development of highly interactive premium display ads.Hopefully this format will help both LiveStand and Zed to destroy the competition when it comes to compelling and engaging display advertisement.BAA is bringing sexy back to display advertisement.
  10. http://produce.yahoo.com/~marcov/hackday/Tix + trailer
  11. http://ue.corp.yahoo.com/fphan/responsive_ads/nike-fuelband/index.htmlResponsive Design Ad Format - Francis Phan –Demonstrates how multiple ad formats can be described in a single ad package. Streamlines the advertising process and allows us to get compelling advertising experiences on to a greater variety of devices.
  12. http://f1results.socialminds.com.br/Based on the Ergast Developer APIergast.com/mrd/
  13. Y! Digital Media Platform Unique requirements of Scale, Performance, Personalization, I18N, and Device reach.DMP Open technologies: YQL, YUI, Cocktails::Mojito, etc..
  14. IDEAEric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
  15. APIsScrapingGreat News for Innovation – access, combine and mashup data in new and interesting ways to create new businesses and opportunities.
  16. Data Access Layer in Y! DMPTurns internet into a database query-able with a familiar SQL-like languageQuery, Filter, and Combine data from hundreds of Web Services and other data sources
  17. http://y.ahoo.it/hVc89
  18. Simple Hack which takes URL, extracts place names, and plots them on a map.Use this to deconstruct JS code to use Placemaker.
  19. CK: dj0yJmk9YWF3ODdGNWZPYjg2JmQ9WVdrOWVsWlZNRk5KTldFbWNHbzlNVEEyTURFNU1qWXkmcz1jb25zdW1lcnNlY3JldCZ4PTUzSecret:a3d93853ba3bad8a99a175e8ffa90a702cd08cfa
  20. USP is privacy. It doesn’t track your searches in any way.
  21. Utilities and ComponentsJS and CSSLevel the Browser LandscapeHelp make common interactions easy.
  22. Write once, run everywhere.
  23. CES
  24. 2. Benefit to Publishers, Advertisers and Consumers. CMS?3. Retailers, B2B, CRM, facilitates the Lead Generation Lifecycle.
  25. CountdownOvernight
  26. Publicis2012.hacker.yahoo.net Register self – photo Mobile App Schedule is thereComms there Register your team Register your hack
  27. Vs. 90 seconds
  28. Isao, Allen, Paul, Iain
  29. Brightman is the Vice-President of Inclusive Design at Yahoo! and will be discussing a new initiative he and his colleagues are undertaking to make online ads accessible to consumers with disabilities. He'll describe the strength of the disability market, the misconceptions commonly associated with this market, the obstacles to creating accessible ads (hint: none), and the multiple benefits to advertisers of making online ads especially accessible to people who are blind or deaf. Brightman will also present a special opportunity for a limited number of advertisers to participate with his team in actually creating and placing accessible ads.