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January 30, 2008

Experts @ Work: Yahoo! OpenID with Allen Tom, Technical Yahoo!

Yahoo! is launching the public beta of the much-anticipated Yahoo! OpenID Provider service. This means that users with a Yahoo! account – all 248 million of them – will be able to sign in to any website that supports OpenID 2.0, the latest version of the OpenID specification. Jeremy Zawodny sat down with Allen Tom from the Yahoo! Membership Platform team to talk a little about OpenID and give us a tour of Yahoo! OpenID:




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January 28, 2008

Developer Spotlight: Matt Mullenweg

At 24, Matt Mullenweg has done quite a bit. In 2005 he founded startup Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com, the blogging software that runs thousands of other sites around the world. We sat with Matt and talked a bit about his age, some PHP, and the cool things coming out of Wordpress.

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January 24, 2008

Brickhouse Presents "Big Data: Viewpoints from the Facebook Data Team"

Jeff Hammerbacher of Facebook gave a talk at Y! Brickhouse as part of the 2008 HackHouse talk series. You can watch that talk here:


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Developer Spotlight: Jeff Hammerbacher - Facebook

As part of our ongoing "Developer Spotlight" series, Jeremy Zawodny sits down with Facebook's Jeff Hammerbacher after his Brickhouse talk on the evolution Facebook's data strategy to discuss data management, scalability, Thrift, Hive, Hadoop, and more.


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January 18, 2008

Experts @ Work : Richard Crowley - Flickr Uploadr

The new Flickr Uploadr has been built from scratch to work on Windows and Mac OSX. Before you upload you can add titles, tags and descriptions, add photos to sets and reorder your photos from Uploadr. This new Uploadr is an open source project, too, so you can download it and have a look at how it works. We sat down with Richard Crowley whose was behind the newest release of the Flickr Uploadr:



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January 16, 2008

Developer Spotlight: Not Just A Number

The award-winning homicide mashup Not Just A Number was produced by Sean Connelly and Katy Newton in partnership with The Oakland Tribune. They built the site using the Yahoo! Maps Flash API and the Yahoo! Geocoder among other things. In this video, Sean and Katy talk to us about the project and how they created the app.


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