SearchMonkey developer breakfast in the London office (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

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YDN YDN Blog SearchMonkey developer breakfast in the London office

Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

May 16, 2008

SearchMonkey developer breakfast in the London office

This morning a group of selected developers from different companies took their first steps in creating their first SearchMonkey apps in the London office of Yahoo.

Developers from Skype, the BBC, ebay, MySpace and other interested parties came to the office to enjoy sandwiches, coffee and monkey cookies and get both a quick introduction to the idea of SearchMonkey, how it will apply to their companies and hands-on help in developing their first applications.

Richard Allinson, Ben Cosgrave and Russell Aronson from the UK monkey team helped the others find the easiest way to get their buried content out into search result pages using a few lines of XSLT and PHP.

The initial feedback was very positive and one of the great things about SearchMonkey - making people look more closely at the markup of their sites and the idea of adding Microformats to ease data extraction - took off almost immediately.

What are you waiting for? Start monkeying around, too!

Chris Heilmann
Yahoo Developer Network

Posted at May 16, 2008 5:05 AM

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