The Open Hack Day was a success
The geek in me wished to attend, but it was logistically impossible. The Yahoo Open HackDay was really a success and it is explained why by Bradley Horowitz himself.
The first basic lesson of this event is that the myth of the developer alone in its basement is completely obsolete in our day and age. Community and team work is the best thing to create products and programs that rock.
The second one is that Yahoo is not doing window dressing about opening its products for people to build upon them and help users have greater and better experiences on the web. I’m not in the high management but, for me, it’s a win-win situation policy. Make easy for people to build products and to live from them. Make more money by having superb affiliates that will deliver our ad inventory all over the world, if we are smart and convincing enough to make them us YPN.
And on a totaly different matter, look at this little anecdote on Bradley’s blog. To understand, remember that Google was powering Yahoo Search before we put in place our own search engine based on Inktomi stuff.
