Where 2.0 : Location is relevant

The 2008 Where 2.0 conference takes place from May 12-14, in Burlingame, CA. This gathering of neo-geographers brings together people, projects, tools, and ideas that are shaping the location industry and the geospatial web. Yahoo! Developer Network is a sponsor. Stop by and say hello if you’re planning to be there - we’ll be previewing the Y! Internet Location Platform from Yahoo!’s Geo team.

Don’t miss Dan Catt from Flickr on the significance of geo-information in photos and Tom Coates discussing Fire Eagle, the new open geo platform from Yahoo! Brickhouse.

See you @ Where 2.0!

Y! CTO Ari Balogh launches Yahoo! Open Strategy

Yahoo! CTO, Ari Balogh, introduced the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) in his keynote today at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Y!OS will harness Yahoo!’s unique strengths to fundamentally transform the user experience.

The Y!OS platform will centralize user profile and social data in one place on Yahoo! and make it available across Yahoo! properties and accessible by developers outside Yahoo!. We're creating a standard way for developers to build extensions (applications) into Yahoo!’s most popular websites, and we’re standardizing our web services so it’s easier to turn them into compelling mashups and apps.

Learn more here. Watch Ari Balogh's keynote. Watch Neal Sample’s deep dive.

Monkeying around with search

SearchMonkey is Yahoo!’s new open search developer platform. With SearchMonkey, site owners and developers can use structured data to enhance Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant, and visually appealing.

If you create or publish web content, SearchMonkey can help you capture attention and increase the quantity and quality of traffic from Yahoo! Search. If you’re a web developer, SearchMonkey can help you reach tens of millions of Yahoo! Search users while building out the web of data.

Learn more about how Yahoo! Search is opening up. Sign up now to join our limited beta program or come to our May developer event in Sunnyvale, CA.

YUI 2.5.1 release with all-new Configurator

The YUI Library - Yahoo!’s open-source JavaScript and CSS kit hit version 2.5.1 in March. Since July of last year, YUI has added more than a dozen major new features including Rich Text Editor, Charts, Selector and much more.

New to the Library in the current release cycle are a Flickr-style multi-file Uploader, a new Layout Manager, big updates to the popular YUI DataTable, and a new YUI Configurator that provides dashboard-style configuration of your YUI dependency list. Head to the YUI website to check out all the new stuff or download YUI 2.5.1 and start writing code.