VIVAnews - It is the winner of Yahoo! Open Hack Developer competition held last weekend. It is a chat application equipped with several additional features. The creator named it: ChatPlus!
Aside from offering conference chat features, ChatPlus! also provides various functions such as language translation feature which is able to translate words into 90 languages, Yahoo! search engine, Yahoo! Map and photo finding feature.
“My initial idea was how to make everybody able to communicate without having language boundaries,” ChatPlus! developer, Kristiono Setyadi said to VIVAnews on Tuesday, November 24.
In developing its application, Setyadi used several modules of Yahoo! Interface Programming Application which include Yahoo! Query Language to filter database data, GeoPlanet and Maps to display maps, Flickr for photos and BOSS for web searching. The language translation feature of this application utilizes Google Translate.
“The hardest part of making this application is the ideas and the implementation of the ideas,” Setyadi, who is majoring in Mathematics at Gajah Mada University, said.
The application has auto-connection feature which could detect disconnections and automatically request the last command which avoids users from losing their last chat messages.
Setyadi has actually had the idea to create a chatting application that is able to translate words into various languages. For the Yahoo! event, Setyadi could bring it into life in just one night.
“We’ll follow all the participants to see what we could do for them and the applications they have created. Their inventions will still belong to them and hopefully we could help them upgrade their applications, “ Director of Yahoo! Developer Network of Yahoo! South East Asia, Michael Smith Jr, said to VIVAnews on November 24.
According to the rule of Yahoo! Open Hack Day, the participants must be able to finish the applications on Yahoo! platform in 24 hours starting from Saturday, November 21 in the evening.
While working on the applications, the participants were allowed to stay up all night to use the computers while they could also take a break by playing games on PlayStation.
It was the first Yahoo! Open Hack Day held in South East Asia. With around 500 participants, Yahoo! said it was one of the biggest open hack day events ever made.
--
Translated by: Nataya Ermanti
DelacruzPhoebe
11/03/2010
ADRIENNE30Larson
27/02/2010
JOAN23
24/02/2010
