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:
- AutoComplete
- Dialog
- Resize
- Calendar
- Image Gallery
- Sortable
- Charts
- Paginator
- Tabs
- ColorPicker
- Rating
- TextBox List
Special thanks to Nate Cavanaugh and Eduardo Lundgren of Liferay for contributing these modules to the community!
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Accessibility in ads
According to Victor Tsaran, one of Yahoo!'s Accessibility team, ads are slowly being made accessible to sight- and hearing-impaired users via screen readers and captioning software. more...
Topic-based updates: A YAP app
We are happy to announce the launch of a topic-based Updates YAP app, which lets you view by keywords, trending topics, and your circle's topics of interest. more...
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