Many of you probably saw the video of our CTO, Ari Balogh, give a 15 minute keynote talk at the Web 2.0 Expo about our forthcoming platform for developers. While Ari did a very good job of presenting a high-level overview of Yahoo’s Open Strategy (YOS), there’s only so much one can say in 15 [...]
I’ve been a big fan of Yahoo! Pipes ever since it launched. Pipes is unique in making the world of feeds accessible and "mashable" in a friendly browser-based development environment. But it’s always felt like there was a missing piece too. Pipes is easy enough for novice (or even non-) programmers to use, but what [...]
As mentioned on the YUI blog, tonight is the 2nd Birthday Party for the open source and wildly popular Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) and the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. The fun starts at 5:00pm. See you tonight! Jeremy Zawodny Yahoo! Developer Network P.S. I did a video interview with Nate Koechley last week for [...]
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 [...]
A few weeks ago, Matt Mullenweg (co-creator of WordPress) came by Yahoo to talk to a bunch of Yahoo! bloggers about the current and future state of WordPress. After the meeting, I sat down with him for our Developer Spotlight series on YDN Theater to catch up on various topics. In this 12 minute interview, [...]
Today, we are launching the public beta of the much-anticipated Yahoo! OpenID Provider service. This means that users with a Yahoo! account – all 248 million of them – will be able to sign in to any website that supports OpenID 2.0, the latest version of the OpenID specification. In case you are curious, here [...]
That’s right… we’ve announced OpenID support, making it easier to use a Yahoo! ID anywhere on the Web.
There are a lot of memcached hackers and power users in the Bay Area, so we’re proud to be hosting an all night hackathon in a couple weeks. Hack and code memcached. Active developers from the community will be joining us along with fellow Yahoo’s for an all-night hackathon. We are working towards shipping new [...]
Our friends at MySQL recently got in touch to let us know about the DotOrg Pavilion they’ll have available at the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo on April 15rd-18th in Santa Clara, California. We are arranging a “DotOrg-Pavilion” where we would like to give Open Source Projects related to or based on the MySQL Server [...]
This is just a quick note to point out the newest addition to the family of YDN blogs: Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!, a blog that’ll focus on the Hadoop open source project and related distributed computing topics. We’re kicking off the blog with a video interview of Eric Baldeschwieler (“Eric14″), Yahoo’s Director of [...]
A couple weeks ago, I sat down with Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjorg of MindTouch to talk about their Deki Wiki product and see how it integrates APIs from various companies, including Yahoo. The 42 minute video is part interview and part product demo. They’ve done a great job of making it easy to plug [...]
A few days ago I got word that the latest release of Yahoo! Pipes would be out soon. As of last night, it’s been pushed out for the entire world to see. What’s new you ask? Several things: Language encoding and character set fixes Regex module enhancements Improved Pipes search iPhone access to Pipes Lots [...]
As a follow-up to Jeremy on the Bungee Line, the folks at Bungee Labs have posted part 2 of our discussion. In the second half hour, we discussed Mash, Hadoop, the fact that There is no Web Operating System (or WebOS) (among other things). Again, I had a great time chatting with the Bungee guys. [...]
Yesterday Jon Udell asked if anyone had an easy way to combine a bunch of tagged items–basically creating the union of a bunch of RSS feeds. Is there a service that will deliver a feed containing the union of tagged items for one tag across a set of various services? For example, the union of: [...]
Over on the Union Square Ventures blog, Albert Wenger penned an excellent rant/request titled I Want a New Platform, partially inspired by the Huey Lews & The News song I Want a New Drug: One that won’t go away (under load), one that doesn’t keep me up all night (worrying about scaling), one that won’t [...]
