YDN Theater http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/ en-us Yahoo! Developer Network presents Yahoo! technologies in action. Watch screencasts, interviews and presentations of partners and staff showcasing tools and services from Yahoo!. Thu, 01 May 2008 09:09:24 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.31 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Yahoo! technologies in action Yahoo! Developer Network Yahoo! Developer Network mattmc@yahoo-inc.com no Y!OS: A Deep Dive with Neal Sample Our coverage from Web 2.0 Expo continues with a talk by Neal Sample as he goes in deeper to explore the recently announced Y!OS. In this session which was presented at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Neal Sample talks about Yahoo!’s approach to developing open platforms that will enable developers to create websites and applications that can deliver more relevant, compelling and engaging experiences for users.






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Neal is currently Chief Architect of Platforms at Yahoo! As a technologist, his research and development efforts include data indexing, techniques for the management of semistructured data, Grid computing, and data streams. He has published numerous articles and scientific papers in major international conferences. Neal is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wyoming with BS and MS degrees in Computer Science. He also holds an MS and Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. Neal was also a CIA Postdoctoral Research Fellow.


]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/05/yos_a_deep_dive_with_neal_sample.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/05/yos_a_deep_dive_with_neal_sample.html Special Presentation Thu, 01 May 2008 09:09:24 -0800 Ari Balogh - Web 2.0 Expo Keynote Ari Balogh, CTO at Yahoo! just offered a preview at Web 2.0 Expo of a very new kind of Yahoo!. One that invites developers to take advantage of our huge scale to write applications that build on our existing properties (think Mail, Sports, Search, our front page, mobile, My Yahoo!, etc.), tap into millions of loyal users, and make Internet experience more relevant and useful.






Aristotle “Ari” Balogh is currently Chief Technology Officer at Yahoo!. He is responsible for company-wide product development which includes optimizing resources, speeding innovation, and ensuring the quality of Yahoo!’s products and services. He is focused on establishing a common architecture and building blocks to drive development aligned with corporate strategy and on improving the overall effectiveness of Yahoo!’s engineering efforts.

]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/04/ari_balogh_web_20_expo_keynote.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/04/ari_balogh_web_20_expo_keynote.html Events Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:38:52 -0800 Conference Conversations: Web 2.0 Expo We enlisted the help of Karen Nguyen from Y! Video and hit the expo floor at Web 2.0 to see what was happening. In this clip, Karen runs into iJustine, plays the "name game", drives a monster truck with a cell phone, and takes her aggression out on a Brat's doll.




]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/04/conference_converstaions_web_20_expo.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/04/conference_converstaions_web_20_expo.html Events Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:34:33 -0800 Indi Young Indi Young, co-founder of strategic design firm Adaptive Path, spoke at Yahoo! earlier this month to introduce her new book, Mental Models. Subtitled "Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior," Indi's book explores the reasons for different user behaviors and provides practical guidance for designers, developers, product managers, and everyone else involved in the creation of useful, engaging products. You can also find a collection of images from the book on Flickr.




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For information visit ThingFo & MyBlogLog


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Highlights from the conversation include Ciemo’s thoughts on how to use Pig and Hadoop to sift through petabytes of user logs to gain an understanding of user wants, needs, and desires; why he likes Pig Latin more than SQL; and why the map-reduce compute grid paradigm makes a great alternative to traditional databases such Oracle and MySQL, data warehouses and data marts.




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Stu Hood, one of Mailtrust's software engineers wrote about MapReduce at Rackspace back in January, detailing how they use Hadoop for processing "several hundred gigabytes of email log data" every day. We have his presentation here for your viewing:



]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/mapreduce_vs_sql_talk.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/mapreduce_vs_sql_talk.html Special Presentation Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:03:34 -0800 Introducing - Pipe Badges! Did you ever want an easy way of putting Pipes output onto your website or blog? Watch Yahoo! Pipes' Paul Donnelly talk with Jeremy Zawodny on the new badges available now:



To learn more visit the Pipes blog here.

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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/_size75_download_m4v.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/_size75_download_m4v.html Events Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:30:12 -0800 NetSquared.org Non-profits and NGOs thrive on relationships – which means the social web holds tremendous potential to transform their effectiveness and impact. This is where NetSquared.org comes in, by helping build the strategic capacity, knowledge and skills non-profits need to put these powerful new online tools to work achieving positive changes. Their mission: To spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations.

To learn more, watch this video:



Net2 was created by TechSoup, a project of CompuMentor.

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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/conference_conversations_etech_aaron_fulkerso.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/conference_conversations_etech_aaron_fulkerso.html Events Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:20:25 -0800 Fire Eagle Launches Tom Coates took the stage at ETech in San Diego to announce the developer release of Fire Eagle.

Fire Eagle is a system that brokers location information. It is designed to help users safely share information about their location with sites, services and people on the Internet.

Want to easily make your site react to a user's location? Or maybe you've found a way to capture someone's location and want to find cool things to plug it into?

Tom explains the thinking behind the project and how it works.




NOTE:We experienced some audio issues from the A/V's sound board.

]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/fire_eagle_launches.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/fire_eagle_launches.html Events Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:20:56 -0800 GSP West 2008: Social Networks & The NEED for FEEDS A panel discussion at GSP West with Ian Kennedy (MyBlogLog), Bret Taylor (FriendFeed), Kevin Marks (Google) and David Recordon (Six Apart) on the rollout of shared activity streams as part of the latest revolution in social networks .


]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/gsp_west_2008_social_networks_the_need_for_fe.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/gsp_west_2008_social_networks_the_need_for_fe.html Events Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:13:13 -0800 Announcing the MyBlogLog API Yahoo!'s Ian Kennedy explains some of the capabilities of the new MyBlogLog API at the Graphing Social Patterns conference in San Diego. Developers can leverage the identities people share via MyBlogLog to create new forms of communities via the methods now exposed publicly. He walked through a few examples, including Kent Brewster's 'Blog Juice' bookmarklet, Raven's embedded social network and its WordPress plug-in, and a new hack that can surface the activity of people you encounter in physical space via a bluetooth client.

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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/announcing_the_mybloglog_api.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/03/announcing_the_mybloglog_api.html Events Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:46:06 -0800 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.

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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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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/01/experts_work_allen_tom_technical_yahoo.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/01/experts_work_allen_tom_technical_yahoo.html Experts At Work Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:34:28 -0800 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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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/01/jeff_hammerbacher_facebook.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/01/jeff_hammerbacher_facebook.html Developer Spotlight Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:29:58 -0800 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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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/01/richard_crowley_flickr_uploadr.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/01/richard_crowley_flickr_uploadr.html Experts At Work Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:58:07 -0800 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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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/high_performance_ajax_applications.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/high_performance_ajax_applications.html Tech Talks Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:40:42 -0800 Screencast: WordPress Plug-In Demo Jeremy Zawodny got a WordPress plug-in demo from CrowdFavorite.com co-founder Alex King. Crowd Favorite offers web-based task management software in packages to fit just about everyone.



The recently released Yahoo! Shortcuts WordPress Plug-In acts like a blogging assistant, scanning your post for interesting things it can link to, photos to include, maps to embed, and more. And it does this using many of our APIs (Maps, Flickr, Search, etc.). With just a simple mouse click, you can include the material in your post and get on with life.


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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/screencast_wordpress_plugin_demo.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/screencast_wordpress_plugin_demo.html Screencasts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:00:00 -0800 Memcached Hackathon Highlights Memcached is "a general-purpose distributed memory caching system...distributed under a permissive free software license." Recently Yahoo! hosted a Memcached Hackathon, so our very own Ian Kennedy decided to find out more and talk to some of the participants:

]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/memcached_hackathon_highlights.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/memcached_hackathon_highlights.html Events Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:57:10 -0800 UED: Pattern Library w/ Christian Crumlish Recently, Christian Crumlish, the curator of Yahoo!'s design pattern library, gave a User Experience Design (UED) brown bag talk here at Yahoo! called "The Design Pattern Library Wants YOU!" updating folks on our recent developments, our current processes, and how they can get involved.He talked about both our internal pattern library and the open one hosted on the Developer Network


Because Christian hears a lot of requests on mailing lists and blogs from designers and developers at conferences who are curious about how the pattern library has evolved since Yahoo! first launched it and how we manage the pattern development and publishing process, we're pleased to be able to share this talk as part of YDN Theater with just a very few sensitive topics omitted.


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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/ued_pattern_library_w_christian_crumlish.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/ued_pattern_library_w_christian_crumlish.html Tech Talks Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:40:58 -0800 MashUp Camp -- Dublin On November 10-12th, people descended onto Dublin, Ireland for MashUp Camp. We sent our very own Chad Dickerson & Tom Hughes-Croucher to the streets to ask people if they knew what a "mash-up" was. Watch the video to see what they found:



Mashup Camp -- a.k.a The Unconference for the Uncomputer is an unconference-style event that's dedicated to bringing together the Internet software mashup community for a face-to-face collaborative meetup where new relationships are formed, old relationships are nurtured, ideas are shared, multiple balls are moved forward, and innovation happens in real-time.

]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/mashup_camp_dublin.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/mashup_camp_dublin.html Special Presentation Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:30:18 -0800 David Weinberger - Keynote @ Defrag Con Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a 2007 book by American technologist and commentator David Weinberger. In it, he describes the evolution of the classification of information and information science, as the Internet becomes a widespread part of people’s lives.

Mr. Weinberger gave the keynote at the recent Defrag and we have it here for you to watch:



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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/david_weinberger_keynote_defrag_con.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/david_weinberger_keynote_defrag_con.html Events Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:36:17 -0800 The 9 gets hacked to 11!!!! "Bangalore. Berkeley. Boston. London. Palo Alto. Dundee. Manila. Pasadena. Pittsburgh. Sunnyvale. Champaign-Urbana. Seoul."

Words to a song by the immortal Johnny Cash? Nope. Stops on Beck's next world tour? Hardly. Places you can get a really great cup of espresso? You're getting warmer. What do all these places have in common? We've gone there for Hack Day.

Here with the scoop from Bangalore is our own Maria Sansone, taking the 9 to 11, just this once....



Over the last couple of years we've been struck by lightning, hacked by naughty puppets, and overwhelmed at every turn by the sheer ingenuity of our participants. We've seen a ton of hacks, from the sublime to the ridiculous, but we're pretty sure we haven't seen them all. So keep an eye on hackday.org and the University Hack Day page ... your turn to play will come.

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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/interviews_at_defrag_pierre_wielezynski_world.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/interviews_at_defrag_pierre_wielezynski_world.html Events Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:38:08 -0800 Defrag Sponsor Challenge - Jeremy Zawodny Defrag is the first conference focused solely on the internet-based tools that transform loads of information into layers of knowledge, and accelerate the “aha” moment. Defrag is about the space that lives in between knowledge management, “social” networking, collaboration and business intelligence. Yahoo! Developer Network's Jeremy Zawodny was invited to speak about Defrag, here is what he had to say:



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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/defrag_sponsor_challenge_jeremy_zawodny.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/defrag_sponsor_challenge_jeremy_zawodny.html Events Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:18:21 -0800 Experts @ Work: Eric Baldeschwieler This week's episode of Experts @ Work with Jeremy Zawodny, we sit down with Eric Baldeschwieler, who leads a team of engineers at Yahoo! that has spent the last 18 months enhancing the Hadoop open source project to run on thousands of computers. They have supported a large community of internal users of Hadoop on shared clusters. Eric has lead large scale infrastructure projects to support web search and other activities at Yahoo! and Inktomi since 1996.



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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/interviews_at_defrag_dick_hardt.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/interviews_at_defrag_dick_hardt.html Events Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:23:25 -0800 Interviews at Defrag: Phil Windley While at Defrag, we sat down with Dr. Phil Windley, a nationally recognized expert in using information technology (IT) to add value to business. He regularly consults with businesses on this topic and is particularly interested in the areas of interoperability, web services, XML, and digital identity.

Jeremy Zawodny sits down for a chat and talks about identity, DeFrag, and other topics:


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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/interviews_at_defrag_phil_windley.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/interviews_at_defrag_phil_windley.html Events Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:14:55 -0800 Under the sink with Pipes Pipes, a tool that lets people with limited technical expertise mash-up any data on the Internet and make it their own. We take you behind-the-scenes to meet the folks on the Pipes team.




The music featured in this video is available physically here:
http://www.merchline.com and digitally here: http://tychomusic.com


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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/experts_work_steve_souders.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/11/experts_work_steve_souders.html Experts At Work Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:30:40 -0800 The State of Ajax | Douglas Crockford With Ajax, a name was given to immediately interactive distributed applications, and the focus of innovation has moved from the browser makers to the web developers. We are seeing now an explosion of application patterns and styles. In some cases, the demands of Ajax developers have gotten significantly ahead of the browsers. How will we manage large applications? How will we manage offline usage? How will we manage security when the browser's security model is hopelessly out of date?


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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/10/ppk_peterpaul_koch_on_the_profressionalizatio.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/10/ppk_peterpaul_koch_on_the_profressionalizatio.html Guest Speakers Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:23:53 -0800 Yahoo! Hack Day Q3 LCD Hurdles, Server lifts and 50 meter code freestyle. These are all part of the mental gymnastics taking place on Oct 10th. at Yahoo!'s Hack Day.


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]]> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/10/yahoo_hackday_q32007.html http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/10/yahoo_hackday_q32007.html Hack Day Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:13:02 -0800 University Hack Day 2007 When you peel back the layers at Yahoo!, the core of innovation is usually a small group of people building something they think is really cool. That's what we want you to do at University Hack Day: grab our stuff and mash it up. We'll bring Maps, Search, Answers, Flickr, Music, del.icio.us, and all the rest of Yahoo's properties, documentation from the Yahoo! Developer Network, demonstrations from our very best engineers, loud music, all the food, drinks and Faceball you can handle.

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