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Live: Yahoo Previews Its New Application Platform
TechCrunch — ... I’m here at Yahoo Brickhouse in San Francisco for an event where Yahoo will preview its new Application Platform for developers, the latest effort in an ongoing strategy to be more “open” that was ...

Yahoo Application Platform coming next week
VentureBeat — ... plans to unveil its new application platform next week, an environment for developers to build and deploy applications — and plug into Yahoo services and user profiles. ...

Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers next week
Webware.com — ... One level above the social plumbing is the foundation for running applications, called the Yahoo Application Platform. Initially, Yahoo will house standalone applications, but as third parties' products mature, they'll also be able to run on Yahoo users' profile pages, My Yahoo pages, and other locations. Some will even run on the Yahoo.com home page, as long as they can meet tough requirements for high performance. ...

New Yahoo Developer Tools Coming Tomorrow
TechCrunch — ... 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. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile ...

Yahoo Launches Open Strategy for Developers
WebProNews Feed — ... - Yahoo Application Platform I'm not going to get into the technical developer talk about all of these, but you can find out about that stuff via the links above. Yahoo's been doing a lot of "opening up" lately. Not only have they ...

Yahoo! Opens Up to Developers [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... The Yahoo! Open Strategy platform consists of three development components, the Yahoo! Application Platform, the ...

Yahoo! Opens Up to Developers
OStatic blogs — Today Yahoo! officially introduced their "open strategy" platform, Y!OS. The Yahoo! Open Strategy platform consists of three development components, the Yahoo! Application Platform, the Yahoo! Social Platform, and the Yahoo! Query Language. Yahoo! is encouraging developers to start working with these tools, and promises to soon provide information on supplying newly created applications within Yahoo!'s pages. Yahoo! Social Platform is a group of social APIs that allows developers to use Yahoo! tools and ...

Yahoo! Opens Y!OS to Developers
ReadWriteWeb — ... of Yahoo! to extend your presence on the Web." According to Yahoo!: "Most obvious will be the social aspects. At a high level, we're rolling out a social platform that will draw on the hundreds of millions of connections on Yahoo! - everything from random encounters with someone who commented on the same photo as you, to deep connections you have with friends who know nearly everything about you." Specifically, developers gain access to the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) , Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP), and Yahoo! Query ...

Yahoo Opens Y!OS to developers
TG Daily - All News — ... the content, the traffic and Yahoo’s user base in an attempt to increase their web presence. "Most obvious will be the social aspects. At a high level, we're rolling out a social platform that will draw on the hundreds of millions of connections on Yahoo - everything from random encounters with someone who commented on the same photo as you, to deep connections you have with friends who know nearly everything about you," Yahoo said in a statement. Developers will have access to the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), ...

Dixville Knox which never voted democratic since 1968 votes for Obama. On Larry King Live. Obama - 15, McCain - 6
Politweets — ... 26th from web IBM Study: Consumers Prefer a Mobile Device Over the PC - http://tinyurl.com/5zuuxq . Is a sample of 600 good enough for a study like this? 5:33 AM Oct 26th from web When the Web Becomes a Database: This was what we were dreaming about 7 years ago. This image is taken fro.. http://tinyurl.com/5vq726 9:59 AM Oct 25th from twitterfeed Yahoo Application Platform. Documentation is available but the platform is not yet available. http://developer.yahoo.com/... 9:32 AM Oct 25th from web Visualizing Earmarks - ...

How to do more, surf less
Yodel Anecdotal — ... tips Food & Wine Pairing: find recipes, menus, wine reviews and recommended pairings Green Lifestyle: grow your green knowledge and help benefit the environment WordPress: post to your blog and moderate your recent comments To add these and other apps to your page, click on any of the links above or go to “Add Content” and look for the “Open Apps” category in the My Yahoo! gallery. These apps are built on the Yahoo! Application Platform, and you can read more about them and many others on the Yahoo! ...

Microeconomics of the Consumer Web [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... According to a recent Morgan Stanley research report, Google generated 11.3 billion paid leads in the first quarter of 2009; according to a recent blog post from Yahoo, that company generates 180 billion page views per month. Let’s assume that all of these pages have one display ad (excludes the very efficient Yahoo Search), that the average click-through rate for Yahoo display is 0.10 percent, and that all costs go against display. ...

Yahoo! Issues Call for Homepage Apps, Plugs Proprietary Development Platform
ReadWriteWeb — ... Apps are to be built using Yahoo!'s proprietary development platform, YAP. The YDN post further noted, "We're working on an array of additional developer monetization opportunities - these will be available soon." The gallery's inaugural class includes YAP-built applications from Mint, Lumosity, Flixter, Target, and WordPress. ...

Yahoo! opens homepage to external apps
The Register — ... web firm is rolling app integration into its main site as part of the company's recent "Y!ou" brand refresh. Previously, custom apps built with the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) were delegated to the user personalization page, My Yahoo!, but now they've been integrated right into Yahoo! homepage itself. "We're looking to you to help us build the next big thing on Yahoo!, and in turn we'll shower you with traffic and users," the company writes to developers on its YAP site . The company claims to get over 330 million unique visitors per month worldwide on its homepage. ...

Making “Open” Easier
Yodel Anecdotal — Open is at the core of many Yahoo! initiatives and products. Over the past two years Yahoo! has been hard at work to change how we develop products and interact with our developer community. In addition to being avid supporters of Open Source, we participated and adopted community-based specifications such as OpenID and OAuth, and were a founding member of the OpenSocial and OpenID Foundations.  As you can see, we love Open. But Open isn’t always easy. Whenever we (or other companies) engage in a collaborative effort with a wider ...