February 26, 2008

Search SIG: Search & The Social Graph

Recently, Yahoo! was host to an open forum whose theme was "Using the Social Graph / Social Platforms to Enhance Search & Discovery". We invited the following people to sit and chat with the audience, answer questions and discuss their thoughts. Thank you to Kevin Marks from Google, Aditya Argarwal from Facebook, Eve Phillips CEO of Chirp, and Kent Brewster of Yahoo! for being a part of a great forum.

You can watch the video here:

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February 21, 2008

Experts @ Work: Nate Koechley

Nate Koechley is a Yahoo! frontend engineer and designer. When he’s not helping design and build the open-source Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library he edits the YUIBlog, promotes accessibility, defines Yahoo! browser support policies, writes occasionally at his personal blog, and presents at conferences around the globe. Learn more about YUI and Nate in our newest Experts @ Work series:

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February 21, 2008

Forming a Real Estate Standard

Recently, the teams from Yahoo!, Zillow and Trulia got together to hammer out the details for the new data standard. In this video, Yahoo! Real Estate’s Steve Schultz interviews a number of the participants to learn more about the motivations behind and details surrounding the effort.

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February 19, 2008

Developer Spotlight: Dash.net

The Dash Express gathers traffic information from the Dash Driver Network and combines it with other sources of traffic data to provide you with the most accurate picture of what's happening on the routes you're traveling. We sat with Mark Williamson and Senthil Supramaniam to talk about some of cool features in the DASH.

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February 19, 2008

Exports @ Work: Hadoop & the Webmap

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February 11, 2008

ActionScript 3 Maps API: Screencast

Here is a screencast by Allen Rabinovich (Yahoo! Flash Platform Omniheurist), Zach Graves (the lead developer of the Maps component), and our very special guest, Ted Patrick (Flex Evangelist from Adobe Systems):

The AS3 Maps API comes complete with documentation and a number of examples. If you'd like to provide suggestions, comments or feedback, or show off a cool application you've built, please post on your ydn-flash group — and who knows, we may feature your app here as well!

Allen Rabinovich, Yahoo! Flash Platform Omniheurist

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