The Hack U season concluded with a great week at the University of California, San Diego. Special thanks to Cody Noghera, Deputy Director of Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP), and Erica Kosa, for helping organize the hack. Also to Gert Lanckreit, of "herd it" fame, Professor Rick Ord, and Gary Gillespie for being guest judges.

Hackers slap the "hack like a champion" sign in the CSE building at the start of the 24 challenge. Credit: Eric Wu (YDN) During the week, the HackU team — Douglas Crockford, Jamie Lockwood, Aaron Wheeler, Eric Wu, and I — presented talks on how to hack, general web technology, rapid prototyping, YQL, and the good parts of JavaScript. The 24-hour hack session ran Thursday and Friday. Here are the results from the competition, with descriptions of the hacks submitted. The winners

• #1 Overall: Rock My World!, an iPhone app that displays local concerts
• #2 Overall: Friend's Favorite Movies, a Facebook app that adds your friends' favorite movies to your Netflix queue
• #3 Overall: DateRoulette, a website that organizes blind dates for you based on open times in your schedule
• Hack For Good: SaverList, a desktop app to help find out who’s safe and who's missing after a natural disaster, using Twitter
• Mobile: Breakfast, an iPhone app that displays multiple content from multiple sources (so you can catch up on everything before breakfast)
• Honorable mentions: Breakfast and Friend's Favorite Movies for struggling with OAuth, and UTag for struggling with Firefox extension development.

You can find a full list of hacks submitted on the event's HackU page. We've shared our event pictures on Flickr. --Erik Eldridge