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Hack Day TV - for Y! UK Hack Day

July 6, 2007 on 2:28 pm | by ayman | In Media and Community, News |

For those of you who could not be there in person at the Y! UK Hack Day, we’ve got a video treat for you. Want to see what hacks were presented? Want to see how people held out under the 90-second presentation rule after 24 hours of straight hacking? But you don’t want to slough through hours-long video footage? It’s cool, you don’t have to.

We’ve made a whole new way to watch long form video on the web, in snack-bite sizes, just the way we like our TV. In Hack Day TV, you can see a list of all the hacks (including which hacks won the judges awards), you can launch URL demos for many of the hacks, and, best of all, you can jump to any hack instantly to watch it (no waiting for it to load or fast forwarding through the video to try and find things). We’ve also displayed the list of hacks directly on the video time line, which makes scanning around for hacks incredibly simple. When you select a hack, the URL will change to point to that part of the video. This way you can directly link to an individual hack, for example check out the Best Overall hack from the NYTimes R&D Lab.

Surf over to Hack Day TV - UK and check it out.

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1. I dont think my net connection can cope with that; the video keeps jumping in an un-watchable fashion.

   Maybe I need to give it half and hour to load first?

   Comment by Matt Cox — July 7, 2007 #

2. […] El equipo de Berkeley de Yahoo! ha lanzado Hack Tv, un nuevo modelo para ver vídeos en la web, durante largo tiempo. Los usuarios que no pudieron asistir al Hack Day de Londres, tendrán a su disposición la grabación de lo acontecido en el evento, saltando de una parte a otra del vídeo y pudiendo lanzar demos de las URLs. […]

   Pingback by Hack TV, los vídeos del HackDay de Londres — July 9, 2007 #

3. Hi Matt - The video is actually streamed and not downloaded (so waiting 30 mins won’t help). We’re looking into re-encoding the video to something more light weight to help out those with smaller bandwidth.

   Thanks for checking out the prototype and we’ll post back an update if the new encoding gets pushed to online.

   Comment by ayman — July 9, 2007 #

4. […] El equipo de Berkeley de Yahoo! ha lanzado Hack TV, un nuevo modelo para ver vídeos en la web, durante largo tiempo. Los usuarios que no pudieron asistir al Hack Day de Londres, tendrán a su disposición la grabación de lo acontecido en el evento, saltando de una parte a otra del vídeo y pudiendo lanzar demos de las URLs. […]

   Pingback by Hack TV « W W W . B Y N A R I O . A R . N U — July 9, 2007 #

5. Actually I could not download the video but interesting page. Thank you.

   Comment by estetik — January 22, 2008 #

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