A rather unlikely shadow hung over Yahoo’s eighth Open Hack day in London last weekend, in the gaudy, flashing shape of GeoCities, the cult DIY website network that Yahoo is closing later this year. “They are destroying the cave paintings of the web,” cried academic and Hack Day regular Tom Morris.Ingenious hacks included Dan W’s mashup of Last.fm and Oyster card data that shows listening habits on the tube, Murray Steele and Ben Griffiths’s graffiti tool for Google Street View and the hack by Premasagar Rose and Tom Leitch that makes Freecycle more usable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/14/yahoo-david-filo
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