Posts filed under “yahoo”

iCal 502 error when syncing with Yahoo! Calendar

Posted by Glen on October 26, 2011. 14 comments.

In the last few days, my iCal has been giving me the following error message when trying to access my Yahoo! Calendar via CalDAV: The request for account “Yahoo! Calendar” failed. The server responded with “502″ to operation CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation. Yahoo! have acknowledged this is a problem on their side: We are aware of a Calendar [...]

New application: Key Terms Search

Posted by Glen on November 21, 2008. No comments.

A very simple example of the new BOSS Key Terms API: enter a search query, and see the relevant words and phrases: Search Key Terms Some examples: perl “Dave Grohl” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

BrowserPlus to become Open Source

Posted by Glen on November 20, 2008. No comments.

The new BrowserPlus framework – a way of extending your browser capabilities – will become open source next year, which seems a sensible way to increase its adoption: The big idea here is that we’ll have the whole platform open sourced by mid-next year, and as soon as possible we’ll have many of the services [...]

Write your own search engine: Hack event in London tonight!

Posted by Glen on November 10, 2008. No comments.

Are you around London this evening? Fancy learning how to leverage Yahoo’s new BOSS search API? BOSS – Build (your) Own Search Service is Yahoo’s new API which allows you to build a search engine based on our systems. It is one of the first steps to make Yahoo! much more open for you to [...]

Synchronize iCal with Yahoo! Calendar

Posted by Glen on October 22, 2008. 36 comments.

Update 26th October 2011: Are you receiving a “502″ error from iCal? Please see my more recent post iCal 502 error when syncing with Yahoo! Calendar for more details. The new beta of Yahoo! Calendar now supports the CalDAV protocol, meaning that sharing and synchronizing with desktop calendaring applications is possible. iCal has supported CalDAV [...]

Flickr Panda Spews Interesting Photographs

Posted by Glen on October 9, 2008. No comments.

Bizarre way of checking out the latest interesting uploads on Flickr: Flickr: Panda

Flickr for iPhone

Posted by Glen on October 2, 2008. No comments.

Flickr for iPhone Originally uploaded by hey mr glen Very nice iPhone specific version of Flickr m.flickr.com

Cal Henderson on Django

Posted by Glen on September 16, 2008. No comments.

Very entertaining talk from Flickr’s Cal Henderson on Django’s shortcomings.

Your top places, according to Flickr

Posted by Glen on September 12, 2008. 2 comments.

I’ve been messing around with a little Flickr application this afternoon which shows your top places. Here are mine: Give it a try and post a comment with your number one place: Flickr Top Places

oneConnect for iPhone

Posted by Glen on September 11, 2008. No comments.

oneConnect for iPhone Originally uploaded by hey mr glen Today, Yahoo have released a beta iPhone application called oneConnect. One of the cool features is Pulse, which shows you status updates from your friends on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Very handy. Yahoo! oneConnect™ for iPhone. A new way to stay [...]