If you’ve heard of Gears or BrowserPlus, chances are you’ve heard them positioned as competitors in one way or another. Another Google vs. Yahoo! showdown. Truth is, that’s not the case at all, or at least doesn’t have to be. After taking a look at what these technologies actually offer, we can see that they’re actually two distinct approaches to an exciting new direction for the web.
We’re mulling over some changes to our web site here at YDN Central and are looking for some folks we can meet with in person to get feedback. If you meet the following two criteria and are willing to chat with us a bit in person net week, let me know. It’s all pretty informal [...]
Now that 2007 is here, it seems like a good time to think about the next 360 days or so. It’s not that we don’t have any plans for this new year, but we don’t always know about the burning need you have for a new API, feature, function, tutorial, etc. So, what would you [...]
We had some problems accepting comments on the blog here, but everything is back up now, so keep those comments coming. Sorry about the outage. Chad Dickerson
Not too long ago someone mentioned that it wasn’t obvious how to get in touch with those of us on the Yahoo! Developer Network team. That surprised me until I took a fresh look at our web site myself. It turns out that if you aren’t using one of the API specific mailing lists we’ve [...]
Many of us on the YDN team use social bookmarking services like del.icio.us and My Web to bookmark and tag interesting stuff we come across. And, believe it or not, some of it is even related to what we’re doing on the Yahoo! Developer Network (code, APIs, hack day, you name it). I recently wrote [...]
I’ve seen a bit of confusion in various articles and some blogs about the application id, and I wanted to take the time to clear up a popular misconception: Your application id has absolutely nothing to do with rate limiting. Your IP address has everything to do with rate limiting. Getting yourself another id will [...]
As we keep releasing webservices that fall into brand new categories, such as the Content Analysis service or the My Web service, we realize that there isn’t a mailing list that everyone can use to discuss these services. Rather than create a new list every time we create a new service category, we’ve created a [...]
First off, everyone on the Web Services Team is impressed by the excitement and participation our launch (was it really just one week ago?) has generated so far. If the activity on the Wiki and our previous blog post are any example, we really struck a nerve. If you’re going to be at Emerging Technologies [...]
