So, Hack Day is now over, but I’m pleased to say I didn’t come away empty handed: I won a prize for best hack in the sports category!

So, what exactly was my hack? Well, it’s a mobile application designed to deliver relevant content based on the user’s favourite team.  I can’t say too much more about it at this point 🙂

I’ll you posted on the progress of the hack if it gets taken any further.

Photo: Ben Ward.

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So, after a 12 hour PHP hack session fueled by coffee and pizza, my entry for Hack Day is complete. Tomorrow, I get to present it to my fellow hackers and some product managers who decide which hacks are worthy of future resources.

I’m a little nervous as it’s the first time I’ve participated in Hack Day, so fingers crossed…

After tomorrow, I’ll post my hack so everyone can have a play 🙂

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“…Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It’s about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.”

Yahoo!  and the future of the Internet

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• Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo!: The Long View by Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly
• Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo by John Gruber, Daring Fireball

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Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo (Yahoo! News)

WOW. Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion To Acquire Yahoo (Techcrunch)

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I recently found out that Yahoo! have launched an anti-phishing mechanism called The Personalized Sign-In Seal. This simple system protects your login details from fraudsters by applying an image of your choice to login pages. After applying an image, you essentially have a login page unique to you that cannot be spoofed.

A very simple idea, but very effective. I’d like to see this introduced to other systems, particularly online banking sites, which phishers target frequently.

Yahoo! Personalized Sign-In Seal

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So, today at Yahoo! we had the Hack Social, a chance for engineers to meet with product managers in order to brainstorm ideas for mini-projects. In particular, the project, or hack, must be put together in a 24 hour period that runs 7th-8th February: Hack Day. It’s the fifth time such an event has run in Europe.

It’s a great idea as it allows us engineers to work on something completely different from our typical projects. At the Social today were representatives of Yahoo! properties including Mail, Travel and Search. I personally have a particular idea I’d like to try out in the area of Sports…. if all goes well, I’ll be posting the completed hack on here in a few weeks!

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