BANGALORE: Yahoo! India Research & Development held its fourth Open Hack in India on July 30-31 in the city. Building on the success of the most recent Open Hack in Europe which took place in Bucharest in May, Open Hack events take place several times a year in locations all around the world. Open Hack provides a platform for the developer community to build applications and product ideas from scratch using market-leading technologies from Yahoo! as well as other technologies, to develop innovative new products which leverage the entire Yahoo! digital media platform. Following Open Hack India, Yahoo! also held its second ‘Innovation Conference’ on July 31 reiterating its commitment to nurture the open innovation ecosystem in India. The theme for this year was ‘Winning in India - Changing the Game’. It included panel discussions on critical topics such as mobile & tablet experiences, social entrepreneurship, emerging content consumption patterns and the e-commerce and deals space in India. While Open Hack brings together tech innovators, the Innovation Conference also provided a platform for VCs, start-ups and industry bodies to actively engage with one another and explore opportunities, challenges and share experiences of what it means to unlock India’s vibrant potential.Open Hack India opened its doors to more than 800 developers from over 20 different states across India, sponsored by the Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN), the company’s central resource for developers and partners to leverage the Yahoo! platform in their own applications. Developers will be able to hack using everything from best-in-class content to market-leading advertising and consumer products like search, communications, media and mobile. The passion of these developers and the opportunity to reach Yahoo!’s almost 700 million consumers worldwide and technology are what drive global innovation and creativity across the Web. “As the premier digital media company, it is critical for us to nurture a vibrant developer ecosystem. Over the years, Yahoo!’s Open Hacks have turned into a calendar event not to miss among the tech community, and we take inspiration from the overwhelming response it has received this year too,” said Shouvick Mukherjee, VP & CEO, Yahoo! India R&D.The two-day event involved 24 hours of hacking using a great collection of new web tools, services and APIs from the YDN, as well as data from around the web. The event kicked off with a series of hack-related presentations, followed by non-stop 24-hour hacking.
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