Commercial Terms for Updates APIs

Posted August 26, 2010

YDN is now offering commercial Terms of Use for the Updates API and the Updates Firehose API (which uses YQL). These APIs give access to social interactions and user-generated content from Yahoo!'s global audience of more than 600 hundred million people. Under the new terms, developers and publishers can get permission from Yahoo! users to use their social data and activity streams to build new applications both on and off the Yahoo! network.

Read the details on the YDN blog or check the FAQ.

Learn more: Updates API | Updates API Forum | Updates Firehose API | Firehose Forum

Best Integration of Yahoo! and PayPal APIs

Posted July 15, 2010

We're excited to participate in the PayPal X Developer Challenge. Our $10,000 X Award will go to the app that demonstrates the best integration of Yahoo! and PayPal technologies. Wow us with apps that are: inventive, useful, and fun to use! Combine PayPal APIs with: YAP (Yahoo! Application Platform), YOS (our social platform APIs), YQL(Yahoo! Query Language), or any of our developer offerings.

Submit your application idea for approval by September 1 and your application by September 22. For contest rules and all details visit the PayPal X Developer Challenge website.

Forum link | Blog | Contest

Yahoo! PlaceFinder API

Posted June 22, 2010

Yahoo! Geo Technologies is pleased to announce the launch of our PlaceFinder API. PlaceFinder replaces our Yahoo! Maps Geocoding API and offers many new features, including recognition of 5.5 million place names around the world, reverse geocoding, and intersection search. Learn more.

PlaceFinder API | Documentation | Developer Forum | Yahoo! Geo Technologies blog

AlloyUI in Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library

Posted July 30, 2010

The AlloyUI catalog offers over 60 components and is now available on the YUI 3 Gallery -- making it as easy to use as any other YUI 3 module. AlloyUI components range from utilities to sugar layers to full-blown UI widgets, including:

Special thanks to Nate Cavanaugh and Eduardo Lundgren of Liferay for contributing these modules to the community!