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Yahoo Open Platform Stack

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Yahoo Open Platform Stack

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  1. Yahoo!, Facebook and Social Aggregation Jonathan LeBlanc Technology Evangelist Yahoo! Developer Network Twitter: @jcleblanc

  2. What We’re Talking About • How do we authorize users and applications on our social platform? • What’s our main data discovery system? • How do we secure our platform? • How do you promote through notifications?

  3. What We’re Talking About • How do we authorize users and applications on our social platform? • What’s our main data discovery system? • How do we secure our platform? • How do you promote through notifications?

  4. Open ID – Single Account Sign-in Authentication

  5. OAuth - Open Authorization

  6. OAuth – What Does the End-User See?

  7. OAuth – What Does the End-User See?

  8. Hybrid Authentication – OpenID + OAuth

  9. What We’re Talking About • How do we authorize users and applications on our social platform? • What’s our main data discovery system? • How do we secure our platform? • How do you promote through notifications?

  10. Querying Languages – Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)

  11. The Yahoo! Query Language Test Console http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

  12. Querying Languages

  13. What We’re Talking About • How do we authorize users and applications on our social platform? • What’s our main data discovery system? • How do we secure our platform? • How do you promote through notifications?

  14. Front-end Security

  15. Front-end Security: IFrames IFrames - Pros • Quick to set up • Full content control for developers IFrames - Cons • Drive-by downloads, etc. • No content restrictions

  16. Front-end Security: Caja Caja - Pros • Very secure model (whitelist) • Aims to protect end-users • Platform has full content control Caja - Cons • Slow to set up • Difficult to configure • User does not have full content control

  17. What We’re Talking About • How do we authorize users and applications on our social platform? • What’s our main data discovery system? • How do we secure our platform? • How do you promote through notifications?

  18. The Update Stream

  19. Updates Reach through Relationships

  20. OpenSocial – Simple Standardized API Abstraction • Social Endpoint Abstraction • Open Source Project • Standardizing Social • Large number of containers • Portable Main Uses: User Profile Data Relationship Data Activity Streams Messaging AJAX & Tool Abstraction Data Pipelining Templating Containers include: YAP, MySpace, iGoogle, Hi5, Orkut, LinkedIn, Friendster, etc.

  21. OpenSocial – JavaScript Based API Abstraction Capture user activities osapi.activities.get() Create new activities osapi.activities.create()

  22. The Yahoo! Updates Firehose • Real time search of all updates • Ratings, reviews,Flickr, etc. • YQL driven API • Search links (e.g. facebook.com) • Search sources (e.g. Mafia Wars) Filters: Text Query Specific Website Specific Source Geographic Location User Language Date SELECT * FROM social.updates.search WHERE link="www.facebook.com”

  23. Conclusion • YAP is built on the open stack • We use YQL to aggregate external data • Firehose allows easy consumption of Updates

  24. $10,000 X Award Best Yahoo! / Paypal Integration http://developer.yahoo.com

  25. Questions? http://www.slideshare.net/jcleblanc/foundati ons-of-a-social-platform

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