Was a judge in the Salesforce.com hackathon on Tue. I went to the event at 7am to get info on the API which included a workbook tutorial and the data model of Chatter. Chatter is a web page which looks like a facebook webpage. You can send/receive data to/from this webpage.

Everyone assumes programmers like pizza:
http://picasaweb.google.com/dougchang25/ChatterAThon#5486504883592525778
Pizza was awful but I didn't eat dinner so I ate more than I should have.

Run by Kavindra: http://picasaweb.google.com/dougchang25/ChatterAThon#5486504921107431698

and Nick: http://picasaweb.google.com/dougchang25/ChatterAThon#5486505092203279890

and Dana: http://picasaweb.google.com/dougchang25/ChatterAThon#5486505544588344194

Top 3 winners: http://picasaweb.google.com/dougchang25/ChatterAThon#5486505393633742498

First place was a 15" macbook pro and ipad.

It seems like someone should get a phone answering machine working for real and integrate it into chatter using https://www.tropo.com/home.jsp or Twilio. Something so you can see real data from a cell phone. Maybe something where you can send it EASILY to a chatter page.


John had a way to send/receive chatter messages to/from groups: http://picasaweb.google.com/dougchang25/ChatterAThon#5486505316856473314

Ahmad had a project management chatter application: http://picasaweb.google.com/dougchang25/ChatterAThon#5486505393633742498