Mashed - it's all over
That's it, another year, another massive event at Alexandra Palace. I spent yesterday mainly sleeping, one and half hours sleep is not conducive to maximum brain power - and may explain why I genuinely jumped out of my skin when the explosion (which I had organised) went off just three feet behind me during the presentations.
It's fair to say that I'm really happy with the way things went - I have some thoughts about how we can make it better next year - but by a long way the feedback we've been getting is extremely positive. The Guardian spent all weekend there, and blogged like crazy over at , Ewan Spence wrote a nice piece about it over at and the guys went video crazy.
Alan Connor from the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Internet blog has put together a - well worth a look. The photos are all over on flickr - - just over 1000 at last count
The thing that's made it worthwhile for me though is the quality of the hacks that were presented on the Sunday afternoon - we had just under 50 in total - and I can honestly say there wasn't one I thought was a bit lame, and I know the judges felt the same.
The winners this year:
- O'Reilly - Team Bob - Subterranean Homesick News
- Multimap - Twitter on TV
- Lonely Planet - Michael Stillwell - Fire Eagle and the Lonely Planet API
- Guardian - CurrentCostLive - Creating a competition out of home user electiricyt usage
- Channel 4 - Scripting Enabled - Easy Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Audio Search and Slideshare
- Microsoft - Northenders - bablefish + voice synth freeview
- Overall Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Best Hack award went to Northenders, bablfish hack
- Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Best Effort award went to Social Flight Simulator
I was also going to list all the entries - but Mr Bobbie Johnson has done a much better job than me - so go read them
Whilst I remember we had some lost property handed in.... if it's yours, drop me a note and I'll get it returned.
- Green bag/satchel with badges - clothes and a pink pencil case inside
- Black jacket with a red and black Algarve wallet inside
- Black Vango: Exodus 100 Lite L sleeping bag
Finally, thank you, if you came along and built something cool, if you came along and helped us lug bean bags around and build stages, if you came along, ate the free ice-cream and then gave away a prize - without all of you working together we could never have done this. I feel we're on the edge of something special here, and if we can start to bring together the astoundingly amazing people in the UK and across Europe, we'll leave the rest of the world astounded by the coolness of what we do.
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