Last.fm Hack Day was a great success. Developers queued up before 10 a.m., and at the end of the day 30 applications were presented. David Padbury and Jamie Hollingworth took home the top prize for their "Staff Wars" application.
Did you attend Hack Day 2008? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Winner 1
David Padbury and Jamie Hollingworth, Staff Wars: Whose personal radio gets played in the office? The one who knows their music. Challenge your colleagues to a music quiz and the winner gets their personal radio streamed!
Winner 2
Cameron Ross, Universal Scrobbler, a Firefox plugin to scrobble myspace and other Web sites!
Winner 3
Rob McKinnon, Last.fm Event Growls: Need help remembering to get gig tickets? This hack gives you local event notifications via last.fm for the band you're now playing. Implemented as Ruby script that uses last.fm api and growl notifications. Could be wrapped up as a Mac dashboard widget with a bit of work.
See photos from Last.fm Hack Day at Flickr.
Take a look at more of the applications created at Last.fm Hack Day.
Hack Day attendees received a USB drive full of useful information. Get your PC copy or Mac copy here!
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