Posts tagged “yahoo”
New application: Key Terms Search
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
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!
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
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 [...]
Cal Henderson on Django
Very entertaining talk from Flickr’s Cal Henderson on Django’s shortcomings.
Your top places, according to Flickr
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
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 [...]
Fire Eagle open to all
…Fire Eagle is about helping you take your location to the Web and giving you control over how, when and with what your location is shared. You choose which applications can share and update your location. You choose how much information you want to share – from as broad as country or state, to as [...]
Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk will play nicely together
Buried deep inside the press release announcing the Yahoo-Google search advertising deal, is an interesting point about the company’s respective messenger clients: In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.
Yahoo preview Web desktop platform
Today Yahoo are entering the world of Web desktops (“Webtops”) with BrowerPlus, a plugin for your browser that makes building rich applications a lot simpler. Included is an example Flickr uploading application that allows you to drag and drop files from your desktop onto the browser. BrowserPlus