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June 28, 2005

My Web 2.0

Yahoo! just announced My Web 2.0 and I'm happy to confirm that there's a webservice to go with it. My Web 2.0 is, among other things, a tagging platform, and the three webservice methods enable you to slice and dice the public tags in a whole variety of ways.

tagSearch - Find out what tags have been applied to a URL, or what tags people are applying in general.

urlSearch - Find URLs that have been tagged in a specific fashion.

relatedTags - Want to know what other tags users have been applying to sites tagged with 'yahoo'? Or 'music'? Both? This method will let you do that.

All the functions will let you filter by a Yahoo! ID, so you can look at other people's public tag space and see what tags they like to apply, and when. Or use it to show off your tag space wherever you want.

There's a ton that can be done with just these three functions, but if there's something else you'd like to see in the webservices, let us know in the comments. In the meantime, check out My Web 2.0 and start tagging and sharing!

Toby Elliott
Yahoo! Webservices

Posted at June 28, 2005 5:46 PM

Comments

Wow. This is very hot.

Posted by: Chris Messina at June 29, 2005 4:21 PM

This looks pretty cool.

However, the API being limited to public tags, is less useful for me. I'd like the ability to access my private bookmarks/tags as well (after due authentication) and be able to add/delete to/from my collection.

Is there anything in the works along these lines?

Posted by: Prakash Kailasa at July 1, 2005 1:56 PM

I'd love to see the ability to add/delete tags to a URL.

Posted by: Reg Cheramy at July 3, 2005 3:19 PM

Is there an api function to add URLs and Tags? That would be useful for importing bookmark lists, etc.

Posted by: Dan at July 12, 2005 10:06 AM

how do i find someone just by there yahoo id? and its a couple years old? ( blacksoldier) I know his name, and where he lives, and a little more info, but i cant find him. Please Help.,

Posted by: connie at September 18, 2005 10:11 PM

Very Pragmatic! (Perhaps there would be some peoples out there which will call this loveless ;)

Posted by: Cat at January 20, 2006 7:22 AM

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