Posts in the YOS category

We start with participant Anas Al-Far’s take, followed by YDN International director Murray Rowan’s insider view, and sprinkle in attendees’ comments.

Overall, 30 hacks were registered and 22 were demoed at the second Hack U at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Mumbai). Amchi Mumbai!

This post explores the lightweight JavaScript APIs introduced in OpenSocial 0.9, and some of the helper methods available, that let you personalize your apps with user data.

Yahoo! hosted the March 25 meeting of the Silicon Valley LAMP Meetup, with Dustin Whittle speaking on Symfony and YUI3. Meetings are held at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, Calif., on the last Thursday of the month.

Today we are launching a release that upgrades most of our social platforms. We’d like to share with you some specific features we’ve released this week.

We recently sat down with with Ed Freyfogle and Alistair Frances of Nestoria, a London-based vertical search site focused on real estate. Nestoria – the easiest way to find UK property – created the winning app for the UK Yahoo! Application Platform competition.

We’re happy to announce that The Huffington Post now accepts Yahoo! OpenID, allowing over 350 million active Yahoo! users to easily sign in to HuffPo with just a couple of clicks. OpenID can streamline the new user experience for your website too.

The Huffington Post announced its integration with a variety of Yahoo! services today. You can add these services to your site too and you free yourself from the work of building and maintaining a registration and authentication flow.

In about a month we’ll be launching a new feature on the Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) called the Create Consumer Key API (CCK API). Here’s a sneak peek– describing what it’s for and how interested 3rd parties can start integrating with it early.

Last week Yahoo! announced that we’re working to integrate Facebook features across our network. We’re using Facebook Connect to enable Yahoo! users to authorize data sharing between the sites. Stay tuned as we continue to build and innovate on the core technologies of the open web.

At Yahoo!, we’re committed to web-wide data portability. One of our recent open initiatives is an enhanced version of our Contacts API. Today, we’re pleased to announce that write access to the API is now open to all developers on a self-serve basis.

Today we’re happy to announce that Yahoo OpenID now supports Attribute Exchange, which enables users to share their Yahoo Profile data when they sign into sites using their Yahoo ID.

A few weeks ago we released the new Contacts API that provides full read/write access to the Yahoo! Address Book. Now we’re happy to tell you about the first commercial mobile application built on the Contacts API – the Palm Pixi’s Synergy application.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Yahoo! Contacts API, which now uses OAuth to offer read, write, and sync access to the Yahoo! Address Book, one of the largest address books on the Web.

Today we are rolling out a new Cocoa library that makes social interactions on the iPhone and Mac platforms easier. Want your iPhone game to send an update to your user’s Yahoo! friends? There’s an app for that. There’s now code for that.