200 developers came together to eat free food and tinker with tools, APIs, and various bits of data.  Yahoo co-founder David Filo was on hand, as was Bradley Horowitz, the company’s vice president of product strategy.

The event went well, though it might have gone better – 300 applicants were reportedly turned away due to issues of space at the venue.  Then again, Yahoo claimed its cutoff acted as a sort of quality control, so maybe things worked out for the best.

We’ll likely find out as the results of Open Hack Day make their way out into the wider world.  The IDG News Service’s John Ribeiro already noted one interesting creation: “YaHealer, an application that allows doctors to share photos of a brain scan over two Yahoo widgets that are connected over the Web, and change in sync.”

We’ll also learn a lot by watching for other developments related to Yahoo and India.  The last one we noted occurred around the beginning of August, and it wasn’t so positive – Yahoo India’s managing director announced his desire to quit.

Phil Wolff has a comparison between the Yahoo event and an eBay one.

I got the consolation prize, though. Jason Calacanis gave me a ride in his Yellow Corvette to dinner. Not quite as good as a private Beck concert, but had its own attributes!

Sorry the blog has been lame. Been having too many meetings to put my hands on a keyboard.

There’s a lot of photos and reports on the event on Technorati.

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Robert Scoble is the founder of the Scobleizer blog. He works as PodTech.net’s Vice President of Media Development.

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