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Web2.0 applications, such as Flickr, del.icio.us and Upcoming.org are getting more popular among web applications today. They often expose APIs that allow developers to build mashups, which combine various Web service for a greater good! Authentication takes mashups to the next level! In this talk we will go over Yahoo! Browser-Based-Authentication, how you can take advantage of Single-Sign-On to instantly have 500 Million user for your web application and how you can combine it with the Yahoo! Mail Web Service to tap the unlimited storage available in every Yahoo! Mail account. Come see the Yahoo! Mail Web Service in action through a series of application demos and sample code.

Part One (Tom & Mor): An introduction to Project Fire Eagle. Part Two (Mor solo): Some useful services for "geo while mobile": cell tower ID to real world location; suggested tags and nearby entities; TagMaps data: Flickr geo served scrambled. Plus: hack ZoneTag, a location-enabled camera app by writing web services or RSS feeds.

Tristan and Chris will talk about how they build things at BBC Audio & Music Interactive, give some top tips on making prototypes and reveal some new APIs and data you might want to use to hack music and radio. All done using the medium of album titles.

Pipes is a service platform for processing well-structured data such as RSS, Atom and RDF feeds in a Web-based visual programming environment. Developers can use Pipes to combine data sources and user input into mashups without having to write code. These mashups, analogous in many ways to Unix pipes, can power badges on personal publishing sites, provide core functionality for Web applications, or serve as reusable components within the Pipes platform itself.

Matt Cashmore and Chad Dickerson introduce the day and explain the way Hack Day works.