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List app in gallery.

Hi,

Is there a way to list my app somewhere so people can find it from the add content->open apps in my yahoo, like for example mafia wars does?

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  • Hi,

    thanks for your interest in being in the gallery. Currently we have been working with some partners to feature them in the gallery, however if you put your app url here I'll be happy to pass it on to the My team for evaluation.

    Thanks,

    Tom
    Yahoo! Developer Network
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  • Hi Tom,

    It would be great if you could do that. Here's my app url http://apps.yahoo.com/-geDzhp6s/YahooFullView/ .

    Thanks :)
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  • Thanks for link.

    I'll go ahead and do that.

    Tom
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  • I passed your URL on and got some feedback. Hopefully these will be some good ideas to consider for your app:

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    This looks like a really interesting idea. I am still getting some debugging messages though. So maybe a little work on putting on all of the finishing touches.

    It would also be great to see some more stuff in the small view to make the application really stand out.


    Let me know if I can help you with any of these. It's great to be able to work with you. It looks like you have a host of really interesting social games on your site.


    How's the big smoke? I've only been out in California for a few months, so I miss it sometimes.

    Tom
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  • Hi Tom,

    Could you please ask where the debugging messages appeared so we can fix them? Also it is a possibility that they tried the app when we were transferring it to a new server. It would be great if you could help with the small view, is there a way to send the guid of the owner to our server and get content without requiring the user to interact first ?


    P.S. Sorry but I am not following the big smoke reference, care to enlighten me ?


    Thanks :)
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  • Hi Tom,

    Could you please also consider my app, Live Roulette, for the gallery.

    http://apps.yahoo.com/-lQgm8I58

    Thank you!

    QUOTE (sh1mmer @ Feb 18 2009, 09:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi,

    thanks for your interest in being in the gallery. Currently we have been working with some partners to feature them in the gallery, however if you put your app url here I'll be happy to pass it on to the My team for evaluation.

    Thanks,

    Tom
    Yahoo! Developer Network
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  • QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Feb 20 2009, 02:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Could you please ask where the debugging messages appeared so we can fix them? Also it is a possibility that they tried the app when we were transferring it to a new server. It would be great if you could help with the small view, is there a way to send the guid of the owner to our server and get content without requiring the user to interact first ?


    I'll see what I can find out about the debugging messages. In regards to the small view I think users have to interact in order to get any specific information. You can also change someone who added the app's view to be more interactive. Why not add buttons that allow them to click directly into parts of the game?

    You could also updating the generic small view regularly too. For example you could list the number of people who are currently playing every hour, or feature some parts of the gameplay.

    QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Feb 20 2009, 02:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    P.S. Sorry but I am not following the big smoke reference, care to enlighten me ?


    I used to live in London, which some people call the big smoke. I saw London on the web site for Kramaley Games.
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  • QUOTE (YosefM @ Feb 23 2009, 10:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Tom,

    Could you please also consider my app, Live Roulette, for the gallery.

    http://apps.yahoo.com/-lQgm8I58

    Thank you!


    I'll pass that on.

    Tom
    Yahoo! Developer Network
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  • Hi Tom,

    I think we found the errors and we fixed them. We will be updating the small view sometime this week to be more interactive as you suggested.

    P.S. That's correct we are in London, though I did not know of the big smoke reference. As always cloudy and about to rain, nothing changes as far as the weather goes. :)I used to live in London, which some people call the big smoke. I saw London on the web site for Kramaley Games.
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  • Hi Tom,

    I think now the small view is a lot better than before. Please let me know if it is ok for listing.

    Thanks,
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  • Hi Kramaley,

    I'll forward the application on to the groups that will make the final decisions. Will hopefully post back soon to let you know what they say.

    Jon

    QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Mar 9 2009, 07:26 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Tom,

    I think now the small view is a lot better than before. Please let me know if it is ok for listing.

    Thanks,
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  • Hi Kramaley,

    Your app got passed around to a few different groups and I'm told that it has now been pushed to the my.yahoo.com gallery. There were a few suggestions that were made if you wouldn't mind addressing them:

    - It appears that you are not handling utf-8 characters. One user reported that their name does not show up correctly in the full page view
    - A "would like to have" item that was suggested was if you could show the top players in the full page view

    The app looks good though, great work.

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yahoo! Developer Network
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  • QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Feb 19 2009, 03:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Tom,

    It would be great if you could do that. Here's my app url http://apps.yahoo.com/-geDzhp6s/YahooFullView/ .

    Thanks :)X
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  • QUOTE (¿R€ivax？ @ Mar 12 2009, 10:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi there, Any reasons why you request the Contact scope in your app? The contact scope is spomewhat sensitive for our users and we will in the future highlight that scope so users understand the sensitivite of the data related the contact scope. If you dont need that data I would encourage you to remove the scope. Thanks!
    X


    Hi,

    I was not sure how invites were going to work when I created the app and thought that contacts might be a way. I have removed the need for access to Yahoo! contacts.
    Thanks for noticing.

    Best,

    Kramaley Games.
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  • QUOTE (Jon @ Mar 12 2009, 10:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Kramaley,

    Your app got passed around to a few different groups and I'm told that it has now been pushed to the my.yahoo.com gallery. There were a few suggestions that were made if you wouldn't mind addressing them:

    - It appears that you are not handling utf-8 characters. One user reported that their name does not show up correctly in the full page view
    - A "would like to have" item that was suggested was if you could show the top players in the full page view

    The app looks good though, great work.

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yahoo! Developer Network


    Hi Jon,

    I send a header from the server side language (php) to set the encoding to UTF-8 as I cannot do it using meta tags because they are not allowed by CAJA. Any suggestions on that? There is a top players list in the game on the link Cities, if you meant something else please let me know.

    Thank you for all your suggestions.

    Best,
    Kramaley Games.
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  • Sorry for the slow reply, I'll follow up with ¿R€ivax？ who reported the issue and see if he can give you an exact location on where the issue is occurring. A good starting point in the meantime would be to try creating a test account with his name characters "¿R€ivax？" and see if everything displays correctly. If there is an area that doesn't if you wouldn't mind posting the code you're using the handle that output we can help set up a code base that will output the full character set.

    - Jon

    QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Mar 15 2009, 01:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Jon,

    I send a header from the server side language (php) to set the encoding to UTF-8 as I cannot do it using meta tags because they are not allowed by CAJA. Any suggestions on that? There is a top players list in the game on the link Cities, if you meant something else please let me know.

    Thank you for all your suggestions.

    Best,
    Kramaley Games.
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  • Yep, it's the top players. He said "It’s in the top players – my name uses the euro sign and that is not showing up."

    Thanks,
    Jon
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  • QUOTE (Jon @ Mar 23 2009, 09:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Yep, it's the top players. He said "It’s in the top players – my name uses the euro sign and that is not showing up."

    Thanks,
    Jon


    Hi Jon,

    I am only using yml <yml:name uid="$m['uid']" capitalize="true"/> to display the name nothing else so I am puzzled as to why it is not displayed correctly.

    Thanks,
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  • Checking into this re. yml:name...will post back soon

    QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Mar 25 2009, 08:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Jon,

    I am only using yml <yml:name uid="$m['uid']" capitalize="true"/> to display the name nothing else so I am puzzled as to why it is not displayed correctly.

    Thanks,
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  • I thought yml:name might be rendering characters incorrectly, but everything seems to render correctly. There was just a platform push yesterday so maybe there was a bug that was fixed. If you're not seeing an issue with name characters then that may be what has happened...it's just something to keep an eye on.

    Thanks
    - Jon
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  • QUOTE (Jon @ Mar 26 2009, 01:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    I thought yml:name might be rendering characters incorrectly, but everything seems to render correctly. There was just a platform push yesterday so maybe there was a bug that was fixed. If you're not seeing an issue with name characters then that may be what has happened...it's just something to keep an eye on.

    Thanks
    - Jon


    Hi Jon,

    I just noticed a lot of things have broken. For example I cant get the name anymore the way I was doing it until now. Is there anywhere I can check for what changes were made and how to migrate to the new version of the platform ?

    Thanks,
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  • I'm seeing that for a lot of apps as well...I'm trying to replicate the problem in a test environment but if you could provide me a sample of how you are building out the tags that would speed things along. I'll keep digging.

    Thanks,
    Jon

    QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Mar 27 2009, 04:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Jon,

    I just noticed a lot of things have broken. For example I cant get the name anymore the way I was doing it until now. Is there anywhere I can check for what changes were made and how to migrate to the new version of the platform ?

    Thanks,
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  • Actually no worries, my test case is working and displaying the issue. I'm going to file a quick bug report and then see if I can work around the issue. If I find a solution I'll post back.

    - Jon
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  • just fyi - we're having issues w yml:name and yml:profile-pict today, we'er working on a fix and will let u know once it's pushed. Thanks for your patience!
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  • Just to follow up here - the issue should be resolved

    - Jon
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  • My app Live Roulette, http://apps.yahoo.com/-lQgm8I58 , was in the gallery for a few weeks, but now it is now no longer showing the "Live and In Gallery" status in Development Dashboard. It is now "Live" only. What happened?
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  • I'll ask around...I noticed this with one of my applications before as well. By any chance did you make changes to your application and push the changes live?

    - Jon

    QUOTE (YosefM @ Mar 31 2009, 10:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    My app Live Roulette, http://apps.yahoo.com/-lQgm8I58 , was in the gallery for a few weeks, but now it is now no longer showing the "Live and In Gallery" status in Development Dashboard. It is now "Live" only. What happened?
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  • No changes at all last few weeks...

    QUOTE (Jon @ Mar 31 2009, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    I'll ask around...I noticed this with one of my applications before as well. By any chance did you make changes to your application and push the changes live?

    - Jon
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  • Thanks, looking into it.

    QUOTE (YosefM @ Mar 31 2009, 12:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    No changes at all last few weeks...
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  • Hello,

    What about my app? It has not yet being listed in the opensocial apps gallery.

    Thanks.
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  • We still haven't heard back, the request has been forward to the my.yahoo team to take a look at.

    - Jon

    QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Apr 2 2009, 12:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hello,

    What about my app? It has not yet being listed in the opensocial apps gallery.

    Thanks.
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  • Jon,

    Any updates? It's been a while, and my app's install rate really took a hit since the app was removed from gallery :(
    QUOTE (Jon @ Mar 31 2009, 01:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Thanks, looking into it.
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  • I just sent another note to our BD contact and a member of the my.yahoo team to see if we can sort this out.

    - Jon

    QUOTE (YosefM @ Apr 14 2009, 09:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Jon,

    Any updates? It's been a while, and my app's install rate really took a hit since the app was removed from gallery :(Thanks
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  • More information - I heard back that the application was never displayed in the My Yahoo! "add content" gallery section. It appears that the application may have been on another discovery engine (perhaps the http://apps.yahoo.com/myapps "featured applications" page)...I'll send a message through to another team to see if they have any further insight.

    - Jon
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  • Alright I've heard more. Your application was added as a featured application on http://apps.yahoo.com/myapps. Applications here are cycled through in order to display new applications, so what happened is that your application has been cycled out of the featured spot so that other applications could be added to the featured list.

    - Jon

    QUOTE (YosefM @ Apr 14 2009, 09:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Jon,

    Any updates? It's been a while, and my app's install rate really took a hit since the app was removed from gallery :(Thanks
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  • The applications are all sent to the application platform folks and they keep a list of the applications to cycle them through the display mode on http://apps.yahoo.com/myapps depending on the push that we are making for the types of applications...current it's productivity applications. Your application is in the list but until we have a formal gallery the applications get cycled.

    - Jon
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  • Hello,

    any news about the listing of my app in my.yahoo page ?

    Thanks,

    QUOTE (Jon @ Apr 16 2009, 01:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    The applications are all sent to the application platform folks and they keep a list of the applications to cycle them through the display mode on http://apps.yahoo.com/myapps depending on the push that we are making for the types of applications...current it's productivity applications. Your application is in the list but until we have a formal gallery the applications get cycled.

    - Jon
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  • Please see my last message from this post for specifics on this process. Your application has been sent through to the engineers on the stack and I have followed up with several e-mails.

    Since your application is still live users can install it. What you should do is seed it among a few people, push updates to the update stream, and users will install your application from that and a friend share process. That is the best method to increase your application installs.

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yahoo! Developer Network
    Twitter: jcleblanc

    QUOTE (Kramaley G @ Apr 29 2009, 05:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hello,

    any news about the listing of my app in my.yahoo page ?

    Thanks,
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  • Hi Tom,

    Could you please consider my app, MeetRealFriends, for the gallery?

    http://apps.yahoo.com/-dmEcqa7c

    Thank you.
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  • Hi Truthfortrust,

    Good job with the application, it looks quite clean. I have a few suggestions for it before sending along to our BD folks:
    - When I updated content from the application (description for friends) the small view didn't update with relevant content. While the user updates their content it should be reflected on the small view
    - The small view itself doesn't have too much information or visual aspects. There is also not a link back to your canvas view. Since the small view is the aspect that users will see on My Yahoo! this content needs to be quite rich.
    - When I updated content from the canvas view I did not see a vitality event on my update stream. You should try to push out updates to the stream as that is what users will see and will promote installation for your application.
    - Since your application requires some of your friends to install the application, you should add an easy invite option to #3 "Meet Friends of Friends". This will allow people to invite others. You should also provide some sort of alternate content for people without friends (or who have friends that don't sign up) to make the application usable right off the bat.

    Those are some initial suggestions on the app that the BD folks would probably send back as well. Please let me know if you have any questions.

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yahoo! Developer Network
    Twitter: jcleblanc

    QUOTE (Truthfortrust @ May 20 2009, 11:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Tom,

    Could you please consider my app, MeetRealFriends, for the gallery?

    http://apps.yahoo.com/-dmEcqa7c

    Thank you.
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  • Hi Jonathan,

    Thanks for your comments. I updated the app to take them in account. Please let me know what you think of it now.

    John


    QUOTE (Jon @ May 20 2009, 12:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi Truthfortrust,

    Good job with the application, it looks quite clean. I have a few suggestions for it before sending along to our BD folks:
    - When I updated content from the application (description for friends) the small view didn't update with relevant content. While the user updates their content it should be reflected on the small view
    - The small view itself doesn't have too much information or visual aspects. There is also not a link back to your canvas view. Since the small view is the aspect that users will see on My Yahoo! this content needs to be quite rich.
    - When I updated content from the canvas view I did not see a vitality event on my update stream. You should try to push out updates to the stream as that is what users will see and will promote installation for your application.
    - Since your application requires some of your friends to install the application, you should add an easy invite option to #3 "Meet Friends of Friends". This will allow people to invite others. You should also provide some sort of alternate content for people without friends (or who have friends that don't sign up) to make the application usable right off the bat.

    Those are some initial suggestions on the app that the BD folks would probably send back as well. Please let me know if you have any questions.

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yahoo! Developer Network
    Twitter: jcleblanc
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  • Jon,

    I wonder if you had time to look at my app again. Could you please consider it for the gallery?
    Also, is there any way to know when a user uninstall the app (via a callback url for example)?

    Thanks,

    John
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  • Hi John,

    I've forwarded on your request for consideration to the My Yahoo! gallery. Since there are only a few applications that cycle through My Yahoo!, you may want to explore the alternate approach to add followers. Once your application is in a "live" state, it can be added and used by anyone - you don't have to wait for the gallery. I would suggest pushing out event messages to the update stream and seeding the application with connections you have. That's probably the best method for application growth.

    - Jon

    QUOTE (Truthfortrust @ May 27 2009, 03:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Jon,

    I wonder if you had time to look at my app again. Could you please consider it for the gallery?
    Also, is there any way to know when a user uninstall the app (via a callback url for example)?

    Thanks,

    John
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  • Quick feedback from the My Yahoo! group - it appears you don't have a small view. They cannot consider your application without one.

    - Jon
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  • Jon,

    Thanks for your feedback. Apparently there was a bug, but it should be fixed by now! Please let me know if it works for you. The SmallView should actually show quite a lot of information.

    John
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  • Jon,

    We still have a problem with updating the SmallView. I let you know when it is fixed. Sorry about that.
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  • No worries - let me know when you're ready and we'll take another look.

    - Jon

    QUOTE (Truthfortrust @ Jun 2 2009, 11:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Jon,

    We still have a problem with updating the SmallView. I let you know when it is fixed. Sorry about that.
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  • Hello Jon,

    I think it works now. For some reason, the REST API does not like the empty "realm" argument (which appears when building the header for a SetSmallView request), so I had to modify the "to_header" function in my Python oauth library. Before, this was not a problem, but something must have changed with the latest SmallView update. Let me know if it works fine for you too.

    Also, I have a couple of questions:
    1) What is the correct syntax for yml:include? I cannot find it anywhere.
    2) Is there any way to know if a user add or remove an app (via a callback url for exemple)?

    Thanks a lot,

    John
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  • Thanks for the rapid reply Jonathan.

    I have made the recommended modifications to the open application, http://apps.yahoo.com/-LL9ac14u, and wish to submit it for review consideration into the Yahoo Gallery listed under travel if possible.

    1) Removed the unnecessary request for for the user permissions.
    2) Utilized the allotted space more fully in both views.
    3) Made the Full view slightly more interactive locally, without jumping to the hosted server.

    Thank you for your consideration.

    Regards
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  • Hi nal1012222,

    The new changes have added a nice visual improvement on the application, but there is still one issue with the functionality. No matter what you search for within the application, all the system will do is forward the search query to your site. Fully featured applications on YAP need to have functionality on the application besides just linking off to the parent site. When a user searches on your application search results should be provided within the application itself. We're not saying that you can't link off to your site for added functionality, but currently anything you do within the application bumps you off of the application. This will need to be updated before I can pass it along for consideration within the live gallery state.

    - Jon

    QUOTE (nal1012222 @ Jul 11 2009, 10:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Thanks for the rapid reply Jonathan.

    I have made the recommended modifications to the open application, http://apps.yahoo.com/-LL9ac14u, and wish to submit it for review consideration into the Yahoo Gallery listed under travel if possible.

    1) Removed the unnecessary request for for the user permissions.
    2) Utilized the allotted space more fully in both views.
    3) Made the Full view slightly more interactive locally, without jumping to the hosted server.

    Thank you for your consideration.

    Regards
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  • Hi Tom,<br><br>Could you please consider my Spacestroids application for the gallery? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spacestroids/id476955589?mt=8?<br><br>Thanks,<br>- JFish<br><br><br><br><div class="quote"><div class="quotetop">QUOTE<cite>(sh1mmer @ 18 Feb 2009 9:52 AM)</cite></div><blockquote class="quotemain">Hi,<br><br>thanks for your interest in being in the gallery. Currently we have been working with some partners to feature them in the gallery, however if you put your app url here I&#39;ll be happy to pass it on to the My team for evaluation.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Tom<br>Yahoo! Developer Network</blockquote></div>
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  • You need to port your application to YAP before it can be included in the gallery.<br><br>-- Kunal&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br><div class="quote"><div class="quotetop">QUOTE<cite>(Jayme @ 12 Nov 2011 9:47 AM)</cite></div><blockquote class="quotemain">Hi Tom,<br><br>Could you please consider my Spacestroids application for the gallery? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spacestroids/id476955589?mt=8?<br><br>Thanks,<br>- JFish<br><br><br><br><div class="quote"><div class="quotetop">QUOTE<cite>(sh1mmer @ 18 Feb 2009 9:52 AM)</cite></div><blockquote class="quotemain">Hi,<br><br>thanks for your interest in being in the gallery. Currently we have been working with some partners to feature them in the gallery, however if you put your app url here I&#39;ll be happy to pass it on to the My team for evaluation.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Tom<br>Yahoo! Developer Network</blockquote></div></blockquote></div>
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