Developers, time to geek out. Yahoo! has been working behind the scenes for the past several months on an exciting new technology that we think will deeply impact the web developer community. We call it “Cocktails” and it’s the technology powering Livestand, which we launched today at Product Runway. “Cocktails” is a mix of HTML5, [...]
Hopefully if you’re reading this blog, you know how much Yahoo! loves the culture of hack at our Open Hack Day and HackU events. But not everyone knows how much hacking we Yahoos actually get to do inside the company. Yahoo! holds quarterly internal Hack Days, where any employee can build on Yahoo! UI libraries, [...]
Contents Update on Traffic and Footprint Selective Record Replication Backup/Restore Task Manager Storage Engines Dynamic Load Balancing Reliable Messaging Futures Update on Traffic and Footprint Sherpa was designed to serve as a massively scalable and elastic storage for structured data. As such, Sherpa’s adoption has grown dramatically at Yahoo! in the last two years. Sherpa [...]
Today we’re announcing the first beta version of Yahoo! WebPlayer. At its core, Yahoo! WebPlayer is a powerful Web based media player written in HTML and JavaScript. It supports a variety of video and audio media formats and services, for example Yahoo! Video, YouTube, MP3 or WMA. Beyond being a flexible and universal media player, [...]
YDN collaborated with Kynetx on a fast-paced online contest for the best app built YQL on Kynetx. We have a winner and several honorable mentions.
The Pickemfirst developers responded to our Fantasy Sports API forum invitation to show off your apps, and we invited them to write this guest post describing their development process.
The Yahoo! Firehose is a feed of all the social activity on the Yahoo network and from partner sites. To make it easier for you to use it we now give you a research interface.
Using YQL and GeoPlanet, you can build a world atlas in under 4KB! Learn here how I did it (versions 1 and 2!) using YQL, and grab the source code.
Last Friday we hosted Ben Livshits from Microsoft Research, who stopped in to talk about his work on how to improve the performance and security of AJAX web applications. Here’s a video of the talk.
Ever wanted to show the local weather on your website but you are not really the developer type? Here’s a YQL solution that is one line of code.
Ever get stuck trying to build a map to enhance your website with the locations you’re writing about? GeoMaker uses Yahoo! Placemaker, YUI, and some PHP to allow you to create all the code you need in a few simple steps.
Nicole Sullivan and Stoyan Stefanov of the Yahoo Exceptional Performance team just released a tool to batch optimize images for file size, smushit.com.
Yahoo! Search is now extracting RDFa data across the World Wide Web and making this information available to the public via SearchMonkey. RDFa is an open standard for embedding structured data directly in HTML. Along with our previous support for eRDF and a number of popular microformats, SearchMonkey now supports a wide variety of popular [...]
Intrepid coder Bart Teeuwisse has written up an excellent technical account of creating “Tweet”, a beautifully designed SearchMonkey app for Twitter. From a performance standpoint, writing a Twitter SearchMonkey app is particularly challenging, as Bart explains…
When version 3.0 of the Flickr Uploadr came out, we Flickr users got a significantly more useful tool for getting photos online. But things changed significantly behind the scenes as well. First off, the new Flickr Uploadr is built on top of Mozilla technology–XULRunner to be specific. If you haven’t heard of XULRunner… XULRunner is [...]
