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December 31, 2008
Vote BOSS for the Crunchies
If you’re in the Silicon Valley time zone, you have several more hours plus a whole extra second in 2008, followed by five full days in 2009 to make your vote count in the Crunchies.
We urge you to show your support by voting for BOSS (Build your Own Search Service), Yahoo’s game-changing open search web services platform, in the Tech Innovation/Achievement category for the “best new… Continue reading
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December 28, 2008
YSlow 2.0 early preview in China
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of talking about the next iteration of Yahoo’s performance tool YSlow at a conference organized by CSDN in Beijing. While YSlow 2.0 is still under development, it was a great opportunity to share the excitement about the upcoming release and also talk to people who are actually using the current version in their daily development life. We wanted to get a sense of… Continue reading
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December 24, 2008
Open in Asia
Where Sunnyvale hosts a 24-hour hack-a-thon, the Yahoo! Taiwan office hosts an entire week to celebrate the new open vision of Yahoo!. Of course, they develop a bunch of great hacks while they’re at it –because what YDN event would be complete without some hardcore hacking.
The first part of Asia Open Week was an internal application building contest for Yahoo! engineers, where developers from the Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong… Continue reading
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December 23, 2008
The Open Stack: An Introduction
Last week Digg hosted a great introduction to the Open Stack at their offices in San Francisco. The event included a ton of well-known speakers and advocates of the Open Web like David Recordon, Joseph Smarr, Eran Hammer-Lahav, and Chris Messina. Video coverage should be going up on the Social Web TV shortly, but until then, here’s Tom’s 5-minute intro to the Open Stack.
The “Open Stack” refers to… Continue reading
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December 23, 2008
Video quickie: Add-on Con Closing Keynote - Installing Software
“The web has always been about the workaround,” says Doug Crockford in this next snippet from the closing keynote at Add-on Con earlier this month.
Thanks to Robert Reich from OneRiot for producing and posting these bite-sized clips of highly nourishing browser discourse.
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December 22, 2008
Video quickie: Add-on Con Closing Keynote - Browser Security
Earlier this month, Yahoos Douglas Crockford, DHTML evangelist/architect, and Lloyd Hilaiel, from BrowserPlus, participated in the first-ever Add-on Con, a conference to celebrate and explore the business and technology of browser add-ons. OneRiot’s Robert Reich, one of the conference organizers, posted a series of short videos from the closing keynote, which Doug moderated.
In this first clip in the series, panelists representing three leading browser vendors, Joshua… Continue reading
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December 22, 2008
Happy Holidays from our team
The blog will be on hiatus until the New Year, so we’ll see you in 2009. We hope everyone has a great holiday and a Happy New Year!
Cheers,
The Yahoo! Messenger team
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December 17, 2008
Happy Holidays with Yahoo! Messenger
December is already halfway done so time is running out to send your holiday greetings to your Yahoo! Messenger friends. Here’s a round-up of the fun things you can do:
Flickr IMVironment: Get in the winter spirit
Put some seasonal photos into your IM background with the Flickr IMV. It will open automatically to pictures from December, full of snowy landscapes and other winter favorites. Try
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December 15, 2008
Yahoo! Mail rolls out a smarter inbox
You may have seen today’s news announcing the next generation of Yahoo! Mail — rolling out a “smarter inbox”experience to users. One way to make an inbox smarter: make applications that can work within it, opening up Yahoo! Mail to content and services built outside the Yahoo! network.
We’ve talked here before about the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS), and in October we released the Yahoo! Application
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December 15, 2008
Opening up My Yahoo!: Q & A with James Kittock
Editor’s note: Today we’ve announced a slate of product updates that continue to open Yahoo! up to developers. Starting today, developers can use the Yahoo! Application Platform to build apps that can be added and viewed on the My Yahoo! canvas. Developers can also use a new Theme API on My Yahoo! to design and share creative background themes.
James Kittock, My Yahoo! product lead, answered some questions about why… Continue reading
