Comments on: Hacks Make Their Way Into Yahoo Products

By: Yahoo! Open Hack Day Sunnyvale, Sept 12-13, 2008: Oddhead Blog: Prediction Markets, Gambling, Electronic Commerce, Artificial Intelligence: David Pennock: Yahoo! Research

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:43:40 +0000

[...] number of Yahoo! products, services, and features were born on a Hack Day (here are two). Yoopick was [...]

By: Yahoo! MapMixer is Cool | netZoo.net | WOOZradio

Yahoo! MapMixer is Cool | netZoo.net | WOOZradio — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:22:04 +0000

[...] deals, and partnerships have been announced. MapMixer is a product of Yahoo! Hack Day, according to TechCrunch and Reuters, and as you can see above, it enables you to overlay graphics on Yahoo! Maps (above is [...]

By: e Being

e Being — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:39:23 +0000

This is really easy to use. To me, for this function, Yahoo MapMixer >> Microsoft MapCruncher >> Google stuff.

Here, a few points could be made:

1. For this sort of things, 100% online platform is going to be the destination for the mass.

2. For the technology, it seems a time lag of a year or two would not change the history of the topic. After all, it is still a marginal technology. The critical issue is its simple and fast implementation when it is there.

3. The most important and probably generic issue would be map amount and quality. We have to leverage both, and remember that the audience in this case is the mass. Vast amount and good quality will not come without dedicated, significant investments. It seems the future will be a sub-optimal one after integrating both aspects.

Really interesting to observe location-specific data – both false negative and false positive cases are having serious consequences, let alone the first impression.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:46:20 +0000

Fashion IQ was the first to deploy the shop by color feature wayyy back in March 2005. Looks like it was a good idea!

-Chris

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:38:47 +0000

I’m gonna buy these people!
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: ian

ian — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:23:05 +0000

Google Maps has been doing this for almost 2 years now. Granted you had to “hack” the JavaScript to get it going, but nowadays its as simple as a few lines of code to do an overlay map just like this. Because it’s so easy to do with Google Maps, there have been several mashup websites that have already provided this functionality for Google Maps as a 3rd party extension. Where is the tech crunch coverage of those websites?

By: Alberto

Alberto — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:12:05 +0000

Shop by color was first seen at ShopWiki more than a year ago.

By: Becks

Becks — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:09:37 +0000

You can shop by color on Etsy. Nice feature, not going to win my business necessarily.

By: Mike Weber

Mike Weber — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:19:46 +0000

Go Bears!

By: Paras

Paras — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:14:28 +0000

Mapmixer is a really cool idea. Great job.

By: jr

jr — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:47:23 +0000

June,

This is using Yahoo’s AJAX maps, not the flash ones.

(Yeah, Yahoo’s had AJAX maps for a while, just not so good about letting folks know that they’re out there.)

By: June

June — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:38:04 +0000

Mapmixer is really cool! We know Yahoo! Maps is using Flash, is this one of the advantages by using flash? I heard it is very easy (compared to Ajax) to do overlay stuff in Flash.

By: Why Twitter is overrated

Why Twitter is overrated — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:35:42 +0000

Well I thought that we already pass the startup-going-get-rich-through-simple-mashups mentality….

All these things are nice, as feature sets, not products. Are we building features or products?

http://productm...-overrated.html

By: Sean Ammirati

Sean Ammirati — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:28:34 +0000

Mike,

Nice post. Here is a podcast I did under embargo and published tonight at 9pm on the same topic

http://readwrit...division-yahoo/

Thanks,
Sean

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:28:26 +0000

MapMixer sounds like a very cool technology… hybrid feature may make current boring maps into something really cool looking if properly done but with the zooming in/out, either you use a really large image to avoid pixelation or you will be stuck with jaggies all over the place I guess being able to upload a vector image or even .swf image as background would be better in this case.

jon