So, today at Yahoo! we had the Hack Social, a chance for engineers to meet with product managers in order to brainstorm ideas for mini-projects. In particular, the project, or hack, must be put together in a 24 hour period that runs 7th-8th February: Hack Day. It’s the fifth time such an event has run in Europe.

It’s a great idea as it allows us engineers to work on something completely different from our typical projects. At the Social today were representatives of Yahoo! properties including Mail, Travel and Search. I personally have a particular idea I’d like to try out in the area of Sports…. if all goes well, I’ll be posting the completed hack on here in a few weeks!