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Imaging apps in the spotlight at Aviary’s Photo Hack Day 2
jasonblack | 05 March, 2012 17:31
Nokia Developer was the headline sponsor of the Photo Hack Day 2 event, presented by the New York-based photo-editing software company Aviary at the end of last month. More than 250 developers from across the United States participated in the sold-out event, submitting a total of 58 original hacks that bring creative new ideas and imagination to photography. Several of the hacks submitted were specifically for use on Windows Phone, using an early version of Aviary’s new SDK for Windows Phone 7 -- the final release is expected to be available in Q2 of 2012. All of the hacks were completed within 32 hours.
At the end of the weekend, all of the participating teams had two minutes each to present their hacks to a four judge panel, which included Jim Estrin from The New York Times, Jamal Fanaian from Flickr, Jason Morrow from Betaworks and Nokia’s Jason Black.
As a headline sponsor, Nokia awarded special prizes (Nokia Lumia 800 smartphones) for the best apps submitted for use on Windows Phone. The winners were Arcadius Kazimierski who created an app that recognizes the faces on U.S. currency for use by people with visual impairments; and Peggy Fung, who submitted her app that helps people who are colour blind to detect specific colours.
For the rest of the competition, when considering the 50+ hacks submitted, the judges selected the following winners:
- First place: Synviary by developer and student Yufei Liu – this app allows two people to edit photos at the same time, from two different computers, using the Aviary software.
- Second place: What Is Up by the team Matt Grasser, Chris Guess, Nick Ihm, and Emily Duong. This location-based app can give you the latest details about the hottest places in your city.
- Third place: Rotobooth from the team of Mike Kelberman, Liangjie Xia, and Chris Bell. This physical device combines a rotary phone, a digital camera, and lots of software to capture images and post them online.
Synviary was also the People's Choice Award winner, as voted by the attendees at the end of the Hack Day event.
Above: Photo taken by the Rotobooth machine during their live demo.
Other event sponsors included: Fujifilm, Getty Images, Bing, Constant Contact, Face.com, Piictu, Shutterstock, Flashfoto, Flickr, Imgur, LTU Technologies, Penguin Digital, Pixable, Sincerely, SmugMug, Tracks, and Twilio!
Companies that provided demos of their APIs, and supported the hackers with development assistance included Aviary, Artsicle, CardThis, Etsy, foursquare, ImageChef, Jux, Lomography, The New York Times, Ordr.In, PicPlz, and Tumblr!
You can view more photos from the event in this Flickr set.
Aviary’s random facts from the weekend full of hacks: Participants and their guests consumed 250 bagels, 300+ tacos, 300+ burritos, 12 buckets of BBQ chicken, 20 quarts of pulled pork, 12 pans of cornbread, 20 quarts of mashed potatoes, 150 cookies, 80 boxes of pizza (640 slices total), 27 cases of water (432 bottles total), 384 beers, and 28 cases of soda (448 cans total) in 32 hours!
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