Yahoo! Purple Hack & Open Hack Day MNL

Get a chance to get into Open Hack Day Manila!

The contest is all about building something on top of the Yahoo! Application Platform – a platform that allows you to create apps consumed by Yahoo’s user base. They have a PHP SDK and a Flash SDK, but it’s ridiculously easy to develop apps on their browser based IDE as well. I know there are a lot of people here who are on Yahoo services (like Mail or Messenger) so it’s definitely going to be easy getting ideas from friends and family on any useful apps they may need. YAP also supports OpenSocial which opens apps up for integration into social networks that support it – like Facebook, Friendster and MySpace. Just to give you examples of what you can do, here is a list of apps that are built on YAP. Below is the presentation given at Open Hack Day 2008 where they previewed the Yahoo! Application Platform.

So this is a great contest but the best thing about it is that top 20 apps get a chance to present at Yahoo! Open Hack Day Manila on October. It’s a chance for 90 seconds of fame to show off your skillz in front of your peers and top technology experts. Plus, the 5 winners selected by judges will each get an IPod Touch!

The deadline for entries is August 30 so submit your hack NOW!

Email me andrei at dreinavarro.com to get invited to the Purple Hack mailing list.