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My Yahoo! Personalising the Web

My Yahoo! Personalising the Web. Nick Cox – Product Manager May 2007. My Yahoo! Personalising the web. Pipes : What is Pipes?. “Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.”.

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My Yahoo! Personalising the Web

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  1. My Yahoo! Personalising the Web Nick Cox – Product Manager May 2007

  2. My Yahoo! Personalising the web

  3. Pipes : What is Pipes? “Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.”

  4. Pipes : http://pipes.yahoo.com • Remix XML structured web content to make useful tools • As simple to use as clicking “create a new pipe” • Entirely browser based IDE • Over 5,000 sample pipes to try or expand on

  5. Yahoo! Developer Networkhttp://developer.yahoo.com

  6. Yahoo! Developer Network : Mission …enable developers, ISVs and partners to rapidly build compelling software services on the Yahoo platform leveraging our platform excellence, highly–scalable infrastructure and social media wealth…

  7. Y!DN : Can I make money? • Sure! • Currently Y! Web Services are available to anyone interested in using Y! products, services, data and content. • SOME of our services are only available for use in non-commercial applications

  8. Y!DN : Low barriers to entry • You can use any language you like! • Our SDK provides libraries and / examples in: • ColdFusion • C# • Flash/Flex (ActionScript) • Java • JavaScript • Lua • Perl • PHP • Python • Ruby • VB.NET • Widgets (JavaScript + XML)

  9. Y!DN : Applications Galleryhttp://gallery.yahoo.com • Users can upload and rate API based applications. • 600+ apps so far : • Messenger – 30% • Maps – 20% • Search – 19% • Flickr – 15% • YUI – 6% • Music – 3% • All Others – 9%

  10. Some Cool APIs • Yahoo Mail API – launched March 2007 • List Folders – Lists all mail folders (total messages and unread message counts etc.) • List messages – Lists all messages in a folder. Want first X results filtered by unread • Get Message – Returns message parts in UTF-8 • Save Message / Save Raw Message – allowing you to build mail import tools • YUI – Yahoo User Interface Library • Answers • Flickr API • Get Interesting Pictures by date • Add / Delete / Edit / List comments • Search by tag, date, user etc. • Get EXIF / TIFF / GPS tags for a photo • Search • Travel • Query Trip Planner content – restrict by Geolocation, images, keywords etc. • Finance • Get stock quotes for a listed company (http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=yhoo)

  11. Yahoo! Next Generationhttp://au.alpha.yahoo.com

  12. Alpha : Personalisation Features • Supports 3rd party content: • OpenSearch friendly sites • Pipes! • Customise your view • Share your layout with friends

  13. NextGen Front-pages : http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/

  14. NextGen Front-pages : MyYahoohttp://cm.my.yahoo.com • Limited live beta

  15. MyYahoo : Personalisation Features • Send modules, pages, or entire layouts to a friend • Change colours • Add content • Not restricted to Y! content

  16. Don’t forget Hack Day : London • June 16th and 17th @ Alexandra Palace. • 500 web developers • Live entertainment from surprise music guest. • Co-hosted with BBC Backstage • Yahoo! Developers on hand to help out and answer any questions. • http://hackday.org/

  17. Questions Thanks!

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