Last week Yahoo invited a group of reporters to its Brickhouse offices in San Francisco to discuss its open strategy in general and to announce that a set of new developer tools were coming in the following week.
Well, it’s that following week and we just received word that these tools go live tomorrow morning. Yahoo will provide details at that point in a blog post, but from what we learned last week, we can expect a sandbox for developers to start building social applications (based on the Open Social spec) that can later be placed across Yahoo’s properties.
These properties include My Yahoo, profile pages, and the Yahoo homepage itself, among other locations. There will also be a “data updates” system that pushes social notifications around from website to website (much like Facebook Beacon, except more extensive), as well as an API that lets developers pull Yahoo profile data onto 3rd party sites (much like Facebook Connect).
Expect documentation for all of this to get released here.
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Looking forward to the good news tomorrow:)
Let’s see what we are going to see tomorrow…
Yahoo has created a bunch of nano bots and tomorrow they are going to take over the world….
What yahoo needs to work on is to use a decorator software pattern across all its web holdings to add value to users. So far, each site is a silo, but these sites should be leveraged to distribute desired functionalities to the end usr.
Bravo Yahoo PR, and poopoo on TC for taking their bait/money/whatever.
Breaking out the Charmin Double Strength this time, for what will surely be the wettest far of them yet.
Eh, let’s see how this one goes but it’s unclear how/if this can move the needle
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oh yeah yahoo is go to google!
I really like the implementation and idea. I’m still trying to figure out how HearWhere gets its data, perhaps myspace developer network, and funnelling data into its own db with the relevant info. All the other functionalities of this site are easy to reproduce.
Anyways, I think this site is a winner, so I’m gonna make a clone of it.
Good point. Everyone of the music startups is doing so well with monetization you should invest at least $5M. Good idea.
Anybody knows what this will be?
Great tool great help.Let’s what will happen today.
Yahoo! is rocking with Y!OS.
*here* as link text? Geocities 1996 called, they want their useless, inaccessible link text back. I’m surprised you forgot to preface it with “click “
What’s most important at launch is to see some useful sample applications built on top of this API so that others can truly see the usefulness of this platform.
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this is cool news, now I know why they opened up applications in their home page…i like their thinking. Best I liked is their mail app, its simple and easy compared to AOL integration.
I’m very interested in tomorrow
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