All women team takes top prize at Yahoo Hack Day
by susan mernit

Get this, everyone--a team of three women won the top prize for a project at this weekend's Hack Day at Yahoo.
The overall winners , decided by judges after the demos (David Filo, Jeff Weiner, Ash Patel, Bradley Horowitz, Chad Dickerson, David Hornik, Peter Fenton, Gina Trapani, Salim Ishmael and Mike Arrington) was a hardware/software combination device embedded inside a purse.

Runway 2 contestant Diana Eng, Emily AlbinskiEmily Albinski and Audrey Roy created Blogging In Motion, integrated a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures.

Way to go, ladies!

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