india.next*

Yahoo! Our City now serves every large city and its citizens around the
world.

Go to http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/ and enter your city name and a page with
latest content about the city is generated for you on the fly. Alternately
you can type the city name in the url such as
http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/mumbai , http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/murshidabad , http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/meerut , http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/miami , http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/manila , http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/munich or even smaller cities such as http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com/McCloud

Let us know your comments by clicking on the feedback link at the bottom of
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Yahoos got together and had a lot of fun on Feb 21-22 @ the internal hack day.

This time around we tried to get all hackers together in one space and collaborate together - as opposed to earlier times when hacking was restricted to their desks. This did create a lot of positive energy and buzz as hackers and non-hackers mingled during the science fair style hack demos. There were ~176 Hackers with ~121 Hacks. This is an awesome display of the enterprising nature of our employees. There were several other hack concepts that were not introduced into this event but will be getting due attention in the incubation "cellar" pipeline.

Judging the best hacks was a phased process with floor judging and a final top 25 judging panel. Alok Mittal (Canaan Partners) part of our esteemed judging panel and got a chance to review our hackers' creativity at close range.

We had some hicups in the process but that is part of the "Live & Learn" philosophy. We will be posting some of the hacks on our hack gallery page (coming soon). Some of the awards we gave out and how the Hackers coveted them were:

Which award do you covet?

• Show me the Money! (19%)
• Crazy Maverick! (17%)
• BEST HACKAHOLIC! (9%)
• Coolest Cucumber! (9%)
• I"m da Boss! (9%)
• Viral Attack! (8%)
• Sinfully Delightful! (8%)
• Ready2Ship! (6%)
• The Missing Link (6%)
• Audience Favorite! (6%)
• None of the Above! (4%)

And now to name the winners (hackers)

• Rajagopalan
• Sudharan
• Bhaskar
• Manmada
• Smita
• Mahaboob
• Abhishek
• Amit
• Pawan
• Jayadev
• Rohit
• Balaji
• Mahesh
• Kalyan
• Thiyaneshwar
• Helena
• Monika
• Nilesh
• Parvesh
• Malakar
• Karteek
• Abijit
• Subramaniam
• Praveen (P)
• Anoop
• Manav
• Praveen (K)
• Ashwin

Congratulations to all the winners.

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Hello readers,

It's been a rapid month trying to get the site up and live. It took a lot of volunteering from several folks across Yahoo! to get this finally out and I am loving this opportunity to finally have an outlet for the creative voice from folks over in Yahoo! Bangalore (yblr) & India.

So what is India.Next*? Well many things. For one this is one place where you will find cool creations, hacks [sic] from within yblr and without [sic] in the open (read more about it here and here). Additionally this is our outlet for trying out new products and services we incubate (alpha/beta) and we hope that you will actively consume these as we serve out and give us your critical (positive :-p) feeback. More over time we will be establishing a forum of interaction between our experts, intrapreneurs, leaders and the community (you!) that will foster product innovation in India. I am really excited about all these outcomes that we are planning for and can't wait to get all of this established very quickly. But for all good things there must be some wait.

You ask (rightly so) "The site is up but where is the content!" It's coming as we speak and the site content and structure will change and grow dramatically in the coming weeks. Please stay tuned for more!

I want to thank all the folks in and outside yahoo! who have helped shape this site and the goals we want to achieve.

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• What kind of online content exists about our city?
• Is there one place that i can go to and find interesting photos, videos, podcasts, event information, blogs and news about our city as it created?
• What do people think about our city ?

are just few of the questions that led to the conceptualisation of Yahoo! Our City.

Yahoo! Our City provides a very interesting, rich and dynamically updated perspective of our city as seen and experienced by us all. You can use Our City to

• Explore photos, videos, events, news, weather, blogs and a lot more
• Share events, photos, videos, trip plans and blogs with others

Our City keeps you updated with the latest in your city through news, events, blogs, photos, weather and a lot more. This is the new generation of the web - City content of the users, by the users and for the users. For a start, take a look at monuments in delhi, hear podcasts about bangalore, browse Kannada and Hindi content - all content created by users. There is a lot to Explore and Share all created by users like you and me.

Check out your city (40 + 5 are available) at http://in.ourcity.yahoo.com.

The internet has to become more local, interesting, engaging and useful - the journey has just begun.

Let us know what you think about Yahoo! Our City (click on the feeback link on the footer of every page) and click on Invite button on the home page to tell your friends about it.

More from Yahoo OurCity Team Blog

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