Inigral Co-Founder and CTO George Deglin joined forces with Causes engineer Okay Zed this past weekend to compete in the 2010 UC Berkeley Hackathon, sponsored by Zynga (creators of Farmville). Their team of four came in second place for converting a website mockup to HTML/CSS with OCR and computer vision.

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The hackathon was an overnight event, where contestants gathered in UC Berkeley’s Soda Hall to hack away at their project of choice. Over 100 people showed up, and 32 teams participated, making second place a big deal. There were judges from Facebook, Zynga, Y-Combinator, and UC Berkeley’s EECS department.

George and his team went home with their gifts of choice (what was left from the first place team picking theirs). George chose one of four 80GB Intel x25 solid state hard drives that were available. Other prizes included an Amazon Kindles, and 3M pocket projectors.