Open Hack Day Yahoo successfully

Yahoo successfully presents a special event for web developers, who called Open Hack Day, at the Conference Center Balai Kartini, Jakarta. The event which lasted for two full days provides an opportunity for talented developers and innovative participants to meet each other and exchange experience with developing applications for a global platform.

Through the Open Hack Day, Web developers will be able to participate in talk shows and panel discussions of technology with leading technology experts and innovators to discuss the various technologies from Yahoo and many more. In this session, developers will have many opportunities to learn, share and participate and the opportunity to directly access various equipment and services to reach the right audience for the applications they create and achieve success both inside and outside the Yahoo network.

These sessions will be followed by an opportunity to hack the most attractive offers developers all night and also during the day. The event will close with an exhibition of works from the application that was developed during the event and also the prize for the winner.

"Yahoo! Is committed to encourage the growth of ICT and the Internet industry in Indonesia with more sharing of best practices and support the existing ecosystem," said Pontus Sonnerstedt, Yahoo! Senior Director for Business Development and Indonesia Country Lead, Yahoo! Southeast Asia, through its official statement on Tuesday (24/11/2009).

"Open Hack Day is part of the strategy of Yahoo! To provide the first opportunity for developers, publishers and advertisers in Indonesia to create an innovative site experience, relevant, personal and business building among its users," he added.

In the event, Yahoo provides a connection for the developers to millions of users in the Yahoo!, Providing an opportunity to take advantage of their applications in the platform Yahoo! by using data from Yahoo! homepage, Yahoo! Mail, facility Yahoo! Messenger, site Flickr to share photos and bookmarks important sites Delicious, as some examples of them. By using the content and data from the Yahoo! will provide more value to third-party applications.

"More than 300 hackers who have registered at the first Open Hack Day in Southeast Asia with some participants coming from several countries in ASEAN," said Michael Smith Jr.., Head of Yahoo! Developer Network, Yahoo! Southeast Asia.

"Open Hack Day participants will have the opportunity to experience a bit experienced by people around the world elite, the friendship, cooperation, and competition in creating the best applications they have. This event is a very unique event in the developer community," he said.