The good folks at Facebook, notably Paul Tarjan, hosted a Hackathon competition at UT Austin a couple weekends ago (Oct 15-16, to be precise). Even though I wasn't allowed to win the Grand Prize since I'm not a UT student, I was still able to team up with a few grad students and hack something together. The project we built was called PicStrmr.
PicStrmr was a real-time service that searched public APIs from TwitPic, Facebook and Flickr based on a term specified by the user. The service would update the page with new pictures as they were uploaded. The overall effect was pretty cool and we won "Best Open Hack."
Thanks to Facebook and Paul for putting the event together!
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