Overview of Yahoo! Web Services (APIs)
O'Reilly NetworkYahoo!'s Web Services:: by Paul Bausch
Covers tech features, some sample scripts and most importantly seems to signal a new openness:
"Yahoo!'s Web Services use the familiar REST architecture, where specially constructed URLs return an XML response in a unique format. In addition to web search results, Yahoo!'s API includes the ability to fetch results for images, local information, news, and video....
Along with their API, Yahoo! is opening several official channels of communication with developers. They've started mailing lists for each API section: News, Images, Video, etc. They've also started a Web Services weblog for announcements and a wiki for public collaboration and tracking new applications. Yahoo! is finally appealing to my inner geek, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people do with their API. When I asked Mr. Zawodony which potential applications he was most looking forward to, he said, "The ones we haven't anticipated."
Paul Bausch is an accomplished web application developer, and is the co-creator of the popular weblog software Blogger."
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