Yahoo!’s Open Hack Day in Taiwan is over and was full of energy from the first to the last minute. 40 teams participated, each with up to 6 people, from all over Taiwan. The event was held in a youth centre in Taipei on 20/21 September 2008.

Image by myhsu

As at the Hack Day in the US just a couple of weeks ago, the engineers coded throughout the night to produce stunning hacks for the big presentation on Sunday. Two of the winning hacks were built using Blueprint:

Biking Tour Around Taiwan
A Blueprint service that uses location based services and information from Yahoo! Taiwan Maps, Local, Knowledge, and FireEagle. The user can push his location from his phone when he rides the bike and can send cheers and greetings to his friends using Yahoo! Go. At the same time he can share his route map with others and can search for nearby local information.

Fun Map
Also a mobile location based service that integrates Yahoo! Taiwan Maps, Local, Shopping and Knowledge and is built on Blueprint. The user can submit various searches that are relevant to the user’s current location and are instantly displayed on a map.

To get an impression of this stunning event you can see some more pictures on Flickr.

Congratulations to the winners and to all the hackers who took part, and a big thanks to Yahoo! Taiwan for a great event.