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24-hour 'hacking' event hosted by Yahoo in India's tech hub

A non stop 24 hour hacking event was held by the global search engine Yahoo! on Saturday in Bangalore where 300 whiz kids used their web tools as well as services to develop new applications.

In this 24 hour hacking event, there were about 300 developers across India who participated as well. This feat was a step taken by Yahoo to innovate new solutions for their global netizens.

The “Open Hack Day” aims at nurturing the open innovative ecosystem and drive domain expertise in the Internet. It enables talented web developers to create more relevant and better social experiences on the network. Again, it leverages the open APIs and developer tools to develop new innovative applications.

Though this concept of hacking the web portal is a different perception of gaining entry illegally, this is a lifetime opportunity to getting into Yahoo! Query Language.

The YQL is used by the hackers and use their own table definition by enabling the language to bind to any of the data source via the SQL. Developers can also query, update, filter and combine data across the web with the help of this language platform. Using the Yahoo Application Platform, developers can also write new applications in an open service web applications environment. The participants are allowed to write the applications in the language of their choice.

The Hack Days began as an internal event to bring Yahoo developers together and it expanded as it got popular.

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