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Quick Tutorial: YQL + Pipes Working Together

Guest blogger Darren Levy shows how to combine Yahoo! Pipes and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) to manipulate data quickly and easily.

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YDN and TipTheWeb at PayPal X Innovate

Introducing Eric Ferraiuolo and Dave Fogel, creators of TipTheWeb, Yahoo! Award finalist in the PayPal X Developer Challenge.

Cloudstock: The Woodstock for Cloud Developers

Cloudstock: The Woodstock for Cloud Developers

The organizers plan to hook up leading cloud technology companies and their developer communities on December 6 in San Francisco, says our Guest blogger.

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Pickemfirst, a fantasy-sports assistant

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.

PayPal X Developer Challenge deadline fast approaching

The deadline for the PayPal X Developer challenge is fast approaching. Submit your apps for a chance to win up to $160,000 for the most innovative use of PayPal products.

SodaHead integrates Yahoo! logins

The SodaHead social-polling site now enables users to register or login with their Yahoo! account(s). Here’s how it works, as described in this guest blog post.

Widgetbox, YQL, and Pipes

Yahoo! provides the tools to bridge the gap between static, unstructured content and Widgetbox tools (blog widget and Mobile Site Builder) that require structured content.

Become a Gov 2.0 Hero: Join Code for America

If you’re a developer, you have skills most other volunteers don’t have. And the 21st-century equivalent of barn raising is creating useful online and mobile platforms. Code for America is now accepting applications for its 2011 fellows program.

InfoChimps Query API in public beta

An email exchange last month between Infochimps’ Jesse Crouch and Yahoo!’s Micah Laaker resulted in the happy marriage of YQL’s vocabulary and Infochimps’ Query API, for access to prodigious amounts of Twitter data.

Semantic Search: An Interview with Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research

Phelan Riessan asks Peter Mika from Yahoo! Research 3 questions about semantic search: What is it? As a user, how will it improve my experience? How does it relate to social networks?

A short adventure with Yahoo! Pipes

I was attracted to Yahoo! Pipes because I didn’t need to learn a new programming language to develop an app that used Warwickshire County Council’s Open Dataset in a new way.

Tracking the popularity of Yahoo!’s OpenID Service across the Web

This guest post by JanRain’s Brian Kissel shows snapshots of login preferences by provider on several websites.

Acknowledging Clarice, My Mentor

This women is not a techie, she’s not a powerhouse exec, in fact, she’s not even a Yahoo. She is, however, the reason I am working here at Yahoo!, enhancing our search technology. Her name is Clarice Soloway and I am celebrating her for Ada Lovelace Day.

ConvergeSC web event comes to South Carolina

The first-ever ConvergeSC conference takes place on Saturday, June 27, 2009, at Amoco Hall at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, SC. Web designers, web developers, and marketing and sales professionals will converge at this one-day event.