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In-browser Tetris

May 18th, 2006 · Comments Off · Things What Look Good, Web/Tech, Yahoo

This is so awesome, a Tetris game using dynamic HTML that runs in the browser.
He used the Yahoo! User Interface Library in this as well.

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New Yahoo Home Page with Y!UI Library Goodness

May 16th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Yahoo

The new Yahoo home page went live for most users today. It makes extensive use of the Yahoo! User Interface Library, a free, open source library that developers can incorporate into their own Web sites to easily enable dynamic HTML and AJAX goodness. Nate posts more details on what’s under the hood over on the [...]

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Panama Madness

May 8th, 2006 · Comments Off · Yahoo

Lots of news today about Panama, Yahoo’s new advertising system that will make ads on Yahoo more relevant. This is a gigantic project that will provide a better and more transparent experience for users, advertisers and developers.
Laura of my team poured her heart into the documentation for this. I’m very stoked to see that people [...]

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Where Are The APIs?

March 21st, 2006 · Comments Off · Web/Tech, Yahoo

Interesting piece on today’s Marketwatch on Google Finance, not because Bambi Francisco completely eviscerated the product, but because it mentioned a lack of integration and APIs as a key shortcoming. Seeing "API" in paragraph #7 of a story like this completely blew me away — I feel like we’ve been hammering the mainstream media about [...]

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ASP.NET Atlas is Kicking My Ass

March 14th, 2006 · Comments Off · Web/Tech, Yahoo

I’m trying to put together a kickass demo for Mix06 next week. I spent the whole day today at home, fighting off a cold and trying to put together something demo-able.
My objective is to demonstrate how our stuff (specifically our XML services, but ideally also our slick new open-source UI libraries and JSON-serialized services) can [...]

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Dan on Maps and JSON

March 14th, 2006 · Comments Off · Web/Tech, Yahoo

Dan wrote an excellent technical article for DevX.com covering our Web services (specifically the Maps Ajax API) and JSON serialization. Great job Dan!

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New Goodies for Developers

March 7th, 2006 · 9 Comments · Web/Tech, Yahoo

Today we announced one new API (Shopping 2.0) and future availability of three others (read/write Photos API, read/write Calendar API, and a read/write MyWeb API). The new Shopping API lets you drill down into comparison shopping search results more deeply by using product categories, so instead of searching for "shoes" you can start at the [...]

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Yahoo! Loves PHP!

February 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Web/Tech, Yahoo

We launched the second in an undoubtedly endless series of language-specific developer centers today. Behold the mighty Yahoo! PHP Developer Center. This has all the info and code examples you should need to consume Y! Web services from PHP. And to demonstrate how truly mad we are about the PHP, we began serializing many of [...]

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New Yahoo! Music Engine

February 6th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Music, Yahoo

They just released a new version of Y! Music engine today. I’ve been using this for about a month on an internal beta and it’s a huge improvement over the first version, especially in the area of queueing up and downloading songs and managing playlists.
The list of new and updated features is here. (I am [...]

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Easy, XML-less Web Services for JavaScript

December 21st, 2005 · Comments Off · Web/Tech, Yahoo

Jason’s got a terrific piece on using JSON Web services to create AJAX Web applications. We figured that he would be the perfect person to write this since the acronym is named after him*.*Not really.

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