9 pm
Birdie award goes to Chirpshire – A Twitter hack

Best Social Collaboration award goes to Communicator – APIs to include real-time communicator

Government award for Democracy Tools – Mash up of Election Commission and Yahoo! Web Services

Education award for Babelfish – Real-time quiz application for use in classrooms

Yahoo! Hacker brings bunnies to Hack award for GitHub Badges – Track your GitHub quest with series of badges

Travel Hack award to Happy Feet – Tells you the popular landmarks of a city you visit

Green Hack award goes for Shop Green – To save use of paper

Burning Chrome award goes to Chromy YQLip – extension for paid scrapping

Best in show award for FlickSubz – closed captioning for videos on Twitter

Hackers’ Choice award goes to Nirvana – your late night path back home

(Details of winners and hacks to follow)

Updated at 1 pm: Voices get louder during the Open Hack presentation

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   rmsguhan Best turnout for Yahoo! Open Hack Day.Loads of hackers going strong after all night hacking.Demos’ fun.Tech crew rock! #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck
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   hnprashanth 122 hacks submitted!! Highest number of hacks submitted in a hackday ever was around 70! http://yhoo.it/cQTVJl #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck
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   m4n1sh I was walking half-asleep between the bean-bags and suddenly hit one. Then I was like “A bean bag isnt so hard to hit at” #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from Gravity
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   harshamv Checkout ApnaComplex web-based software for Apartment management. Please give feedback guys. http://bit.ly/dhwgYh #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck
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   rmsguhan #openhackindia numbers:3000 responses,1200 confirmed,1400 cups of coffee/tea,600 hackers,200+ flickr,200+ tweets,130+ hacks,40+ tech crew, 25 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck
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   crashuniverse Population explosion here at #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from Twitter for iPhone

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Live Updates at 6 pm, Saturday, July 24: Group Hacks – Order of the day

Piyush from OnMobile Global Ltd, Rajat from the Amazon Development Center in Chennai, Raghav from Neev Technologies, and Tushar, a software architech from Chandigarh, had met through the YDN forum and that’s where their idea of a group hack came about. They’re working to simplify search through their hack. Will it be mission accomplished? We’ll know soon.

Another group, three friends – Ankur Patel from Thomson Reuters, Yatin Kumar from Aditya Birla and Ankur Gupta from 3PAR Inc, together are trying to collate data from the Election Commission site and hope to come up with a solution for democracy. That’s all we know for now. Wonder if we’re on the verge of a breakthrough. The hack results will be announced at 06:00 pm, Sunday, July 25. So stay tuned.

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Of the 13 Yahoo! hack days we have had globally so far, this has been confirmed as the biggest ever, totaling 560 participants, with 440 hackers and 120 info-geeks. The much-awaited 24-hour Yahoo! Open Hack Day has begun at The Taj Residency in Bangalore. In his inaugural talk, Jeff Kinder, Senior Vice-President – Media Products & Solutions, had this to say:

We’ve had a record-breaking number of registrations – 2,350, with the numbers skyrocketing from day one. Developers from over 16 states in India, and a few from outside the country registered for the event.

Hack days are a way for us to showcase our open technology and foster innovation in the developer community.

And for you (hackers & info geeks), it’s an opportunity to show off your skills, get recognized by peers, and work on new and exciting technologies.

Let me take a few moments to share some fantastic success stories that have come out of past Yahoo! Open Hack events. From our internal hacks in Brazil, we incorporated the Meme hack as part of our product portfolio. In Indonesia, we were so impressed with the Koprol hack that we eventually acquired it. So have fun and show us what you’ve got.

Earlier, Shouvick Mukherjee, Vice President and Head, Yahoo! India Research & Development, said:

The 3rd edition of Open Hack Day in India has attracted the largest ever participation so far. Yahoo!’s mission is to nurture a developer community that fosters innovation and thought leadership in this domain. For the first time, we are also bringing together leaders from across the industry to drive conversations on innovation through an Innovation Conference that runs in parallel.

Some tweets on #OpenHackIndia -

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   rmsguhan Best turnout for Yahoo! Open Hack Day.Loads of hackers going strong after all night hacking.Demos will be fun.Tech crew rock! #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck
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   hnprashanth 122 hacks submitted!! Highest number of hacks submitted in a hackday ever was around 70! http://yhoo.it/cQTVJl #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck
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   m4n1sh I was walking half-asleep between the bean-bags and suddenly hit one. Then I was like “A bean bag isnt so hard to hit at” #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from Gravity
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   harshamv Checkout ApnaComplex web-based software for Apartment management. Please give feedback guys. http://bit.ly/dhwgYh #openhackindia 25 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck
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   rmsguhan #openhackindia numbers:3000 responses,1200 confirmed,1400 cups of coffee/tea,600 hackers,200+ flickr,200+ tweets,130+ hacks,40+ tech crew, 25 Jul 2010 from TweetDeck

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   bharathi_p now i m having red bull energy drink.still 14 more hours to go #openhackindia 24 Jul 2010 from web
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   arun197 Having a fantastic time with @yeskarthik @sarang05 @vigneshraju at Taj Residency Bangalore #openhackindia 24 Jul 2010 from web
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   m4n1sh RT @codepo8: Geek fact about #openhackindia – for the first time in india the whole network is on IPV6! Yahoo Network guys FTW. 24 Jul 2010 from web
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   yeskarthik if i eat like this i ll easily put 5 kgs of wt in a week! awesome #food. #openhackindia #jalebi 24 Jul 2010 from web

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   codepo8 very cool and simple demo for Yahoo Social hacking: http://github.com/saurabhsahni/Hacks/tree/master/social/ #openhackindia by @saurabhsahni 24 Jul 2010 from Seesmic
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   isenthil Started with small discussion for the Yahoo Hack #openhackindia 24 Jul 2010 from web
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   VIVEKRP http://twitpic.com/285h4t – Crowd in Yahoo! Open Hack Day. #openhackindia 24 Jul 2010 from Gravity
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   gnuyoga #openhackindia is here http://openhackindia2010.pbworks.com 24 Jul 2010 from web
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   anshprat Didn’t know that QT was developed by a company now owned by nokia! #openhackindia 24 Jul 2010 from Seesmic

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