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Update: the official photos, videos, and submitted projects are now available on the Intern Hackday site.

In my previous post, I showed you the sights and sounds from day 1 of the LinkedIn Intern Hackday. This post will do the same for day 2, Saturday July 30. The Intern Hackday was an overnight affair and just about all the interns worked straight through the night to get their hacks done by noon. 45 projects were submitted, featuring a wide range of ideas, platforms and technologies. We saw games, music apps, UI frameworks, augmented reality, AI, location apps, IDE extensions, p2p file sharing, and even a 20 page report.

The pictures below are, as usual, mostly from iPhones. Keep your eyes on the Intern Hackday site for the official event photos, videos and project submissions soon!

12:00am: one of the interns turns 21!

2:30am: Dylan Field gives us a preview of his team's hack

5:00am: the hackers are still going strong

Well, most of them anyway

Programmer, noun: an ingenious device that turns caffeine into code

6:30am: the sun comes up

10:00am: Brooke and her dog drop by to provide emotional support

11:00am: Allen announces the 1 hour warning

Less than 60 minutes to get the hacks submitted. Crunch time!

11:55am: 5 minute warning.

12:01pm: the hacks are submitted. Time to crash.

Sandwiched between bean bags

3:00pm: picking the 15 finalists

4:00pm: celebrity judges James Gosling, Kevin Scott and Omar Hamoui in the house!

Adam Nash kicks things off

The judges look on as some amazing projects are presented

Rocks: a 3d, in-browser, multiplayer game using node.js, socket.io, WebGL and some serious technical wizardry

LinkedUp: like Chat Roulette, but with less... genitalia. Thanks for cleaning that up Adam!

After deliberating, the judges picked the winners. 3rd place went to the beam.it team!

2nd place: LinkedOut!

1st place: rocks!

http://twitter.com/adamnash/status/97481275065110528

Update: the official photos, videos, and submitted projects are now available on the Intern Hackday site.

Friday, July 29, we kicked off the LinkedIn Intern Hackday. It was the first ever public hackday we've had at LinkedIn: interns from all over Silicon Valley were invited to come down to LinkedIn headquarters, form teams, hack for 24 hours, and build something awesome. Roughly 165 interns came and just about all of them stayed up all night. To keep them going, we had a ton of food delivered - sandwiches at 7, pizza at 9, Chinese food at 2am, breakfast burritos at 7am, more pizza at noon, hot truck at 4 - and vast quantities of caffeine at all hours.

This is a quick blog post with some of the sights and sounds from day 1. These are mostly from my iPhone (apparently, the only camera I have on me during most LinkedIn events), the LinkedIn University Facebook Page and one of our volunteers, Hemendra. Keep your eye on the Intern Hackday site for the full official set of photos, videos and, most importantly, the submitted hacks from the event.