May 9, 2011 ~ Xobni Hack Day

Owned by Mark Halvorson (Deactivated)
Last updated: May 05, 2011Version comment
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SAVE THE DATE 

Join Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Yelp and give your company a prime spot in the inbox, where users spend 30%+ per day.  Xobni is making it easy for you to build an Open Social gadget that will run in Outlook and Google Apps.  That's right, build once, deploy twice.

Join the fun, build your gadget and drive more engagement and visibility with your brand.  And Bonus: 10 hacks will be selected to present their hacks at the event and judged by our celebrity guests: Michael Arrington, David Lee and Joseph Smarr.  Prizes are TBD, but they'll be good.  ;)   

We'll send the SDK to registered developers in advance of the event so you can maximize your time at the mini hack.

Schedule

2pm - 5 pm - mini hack, beer, pizza, jams, good peeps

5 pm - showcase of hacks; judges Michael Arrington, David Lee and Joseph Smarr

More details (added 4/29):

We know that four hours during an event is not much time to create the Xobni gadget of your dreams, so start your hacks now!  You’ve got from now until 5pm on May 9, when presentations begin to the panel of superstar judges.

Here’s some other info that might be helpful for your hack:

  • Check out http://www.xobni.com/developer to get started.  Set up your developer account, log in to Xobni for Outlook, and add your own gadget and test it out.  Hacks can be anything from very useful to super silly.  Have fun; make us laugh, make us cry, make us feel like we can better leverage collaboration methodologies and paradigms – whatever you want.  It’s a hack – anything goes.
  • There are two flavors of Xobni Gadgets:
    • The sidebar gadget is usually focused on people or companies, and lives in the Xobni Sidebar.  Current gadgets like this include our Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn integrations.
    • The message body gadget is usually focused on information in a message, and can be shown or hidden based on information in the message.  Existing examples include our YouTube, Flickr, and Yelp gadgets (example).

Faaabulous Prizes

  • Best Overall Gadget: $500 or XOOM Tablet
  • Most Creative: $250
  • Most Useful: $250
  • Crowd Favorite: $250
  • All presenters receive a Xobni t-shirt (teams are OK too)

So try some stuff out, ask questions on the developer forum,  or just view developer faqs.  

Tweet #xobnihack as you go along the way and on the day of the event.

Ready.. set... go!

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