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Readers looking for ad-free^H^H^H^H^H^H faster access to search results may find enlightenment in Yahoo!'s JSON documentation and JavaScript Developer Center. See especially the JSON area of the Code Samples, Tools, and Libraries section in the latter, which has pointers to working examples.

Readers looking for ad-free^H^H^H^H^H^H faster access to search results may find enlightenment in Yahoo!'s JSON documentation and JavaScript Developer Center. See especially the JSON area of the Code Samples, Tools, and Libraries section in the latter, which has pointers to working examples.

How's this for innovative and new? http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/index.html

Forget about the pranks; it's the new Maps APIs that deserve attention. Not only can you create JavaScript/Ajax maps like with the Google API, but you can also embed Flash maps in your pages or even your own Flash applications. And there's a free geocoder.

Rasmus Lerdorf has a handy tutorial on using this stuff with PHP.

Forget about the pranks; it's the new Maps APIs that deserve attention. Not only can you create JavaScript/Ajax maps like with the Google API, but you can also embed Flash maps in your pages or even your own Flash applications. And there's a free geocoder.

Rasmus Lerdorf has a handy tutorial on using this stuff with PHP.

Forget about the pranks; it's the new Maps APIs that deserve attention. Not only can you create JavaScript/Ajax maps like with the Google API, but you can also embed Flash maps in your pages or even your own Flash applications. And there's a free geocoder.

Rasmus Lerdorf has a handy tutorial on using this stuff with PHP.

Forget about the pranks; it's the new Maps APIs that deserve attention. Not only can you create JavaScript/Ajax maps like with the Google API, but you can also embed Flash maps in your pages or even your own Flash applications. And there's a free geocoder.

Rasmus Lerdorf has a handy tutorial on using this stuff with PHP.

Forget about the pranks; it's the new Maps APIs that deserve attention. Not only can you create JavaScript/Ajax maps like with the Google API, but you can also embed Flash maps in your pages or even your own Flash applications. And there's a free geocoder.

Rasmus Lerdorf has a handy tutorial on using this stuff with PHP.

I use PC power supplies for other stuff because they are VERY cheap when compared to general purpose power supplies from electronics places.

http://developer.yahoo.net/search/audio/index.html

songSearch is probably the method you'll want.

In the speech, Adam Bosworth predicted that "RSS 2.0 and Atom will be the lingua franca that will be used to consume all data from everywhere" because they "are simple formats that are sloppily extensible."

It's true that many seem to be moving in this direction. For example, A9's OpenSearch is a simple extension to RSS. The Findory API offers simple, RSS-based access to news and blog search results. Yahoo offers a few services through more the more complex Yahoo APIs, but offers many more through Yahoo RSS, including news and web search results.

It seems that most web services may end up standardizing on simple REST protocols using RSS and Atom.

In the speech, Adam Bosworth predicted that "RSS 2.0 and Atom will be the lingua franca that will be used to consume all data from everywhere" because they "are simple formats that are sloppily extensible."

It's true that many seem to be moving in this direction. For example, A9's OpenSearch is a simple extension to RSS. The Findory API offers simple, RSS-based access to news and blog search results. Yahoo offers a few services through more the more complex Yahoo APIs, but offers many more through Yahoo RSS, including news and web search results.

It seems that most web services may end up standardizing on simple REST protocols using RSS and Atom.

Surely what is needed is for Yahoo to publish a rich, well documented set of APIs, rather like Google* has done - this would let any desktop software (Konfabulator, Dashboard, Linux stuff, whatever) access the information.

You mean like these?

Yahoo offers APIs for a much wider range of their services than Google does.

Um, like this?

Nope, this came from the new Y! Developer Network (my team, based in Sunnyvale). There's no pressure to make things x-platform, it's just the right thing to do.

It's not totally a dupe, it was in fact "launched" at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference today.

Receiving no attention is the news that Yahoo also released their maps API today as well. You can read a ranty blogpost from a Yahoo developer about the differences.

I pilfered all of the above links from rc3.org

Ballmer and MSN should take a page from Yahoo, who have been busy actually competing with Google rather than just talking about competing with Google.

Lately I've found that Yahoo's search engine is better at putting the 'canonical' result for a search in the number 1 position than Google is. Google's results frequently put blog postings, etc. higher than the page those postings are talking about. Yahoo does not seem to have this problem.

Yahoo has been rolling out several innovative search services lately.

Yahoo has actively developing and improving APIs for a range of their services. Google's API has not changed since its rollout in 2002.

Yahoo is integrating with Firefox. Google is not, as far as anyone outside the company can tell.

All of these things have caused a 180 degree turnaround in my perception of Yahoo of late. They have quietly become real contenders again in search and related services -- and without all the "we're gonna kill Google! Just watch us!" noise we keep getting every month from MS. I might take Ballmer & co. more seriously if they followed Yahoo's lead and started delivering rather than just making promises.

Yahoo buys companies so that 1) they can at least move in the direction of an AOL-styled walled-garden area, 2) so they can overall have more page-views and thus have more advertising space, and 3) so they can "synergize" between the offerings to advertise between them and generally present a unified web presence.

This is who provide the mapping service for yahoo.

The only thing I like about it is the Orientation zoom feature which does a quick interactive zoom out of the map.

Tell me about it! I bought an hp pavilion from them a few years back.I had to send it back FOUR TIMES(on my own dime)to get one that worked.they said they'd credit me the shipping.Did they?NOPE.If you want a good deal on a nice refurb,Go to http://saveateaglestore.site.yahoo.net/.I just bought a 2.4 ghz celeron(Yes,i LIKE celerons,great for vid editing).They didn't have the model i wanted in stock,So they gave me a FREE upgrade to the next model(2.6 proc,bigger hd,nice multimedia reader,dvd rom/cdrw)and even checked up no less than FIVE times by email just to make sure i was happy with the pc!Great bunch,IMO.

It certainly seems like Yahoo! is turning back around, hot on Google's heals. With Yahoo 360, Flickr, and their developer tools, it seems like they are becoming relevant (again.)

Then again, we're yet to see the sort of buzz around these APIs that Google was able to muster. Where are the Yahoo equivalents of GoogleBrowser, Googlism and GoogleAlert? Guess there's still something more emotionally exciting about Google, at least for now...

The Yahoo! Developer Kit has been very easy to use and very powerful. XML services are the future (or present, depending on how bloody you like your edge) of the web.

See http://developer.yahoo.net/wiki/index.cgi?FirefoxS earchSidebar for an example Firefox extension that uses the new Yahoo API.

There was an adage in the Air Force that all the written technical rules we had to follow (like "wearing a parachute or restraint harness near an open door is required when in flight") came from some poor sap not having the common sense to do these things on their own and dying or becoming disfigured in some stupendous manner.
I wonder if the same thing is true with Yahoo's TOS'.

What a load of bollocks.

The web search limit is 5,000. Hopefully this will push google to increase theirs.
http://developer.yahoo.net/web/V1/webSearch.html

and of course nothing like it is in this article.

The fashion keyboard ($60) is really the MacAlly IceKey, reconfigured with PC-style ctrl/alt/Win keys.

The keys are laptop-style "scissor keys"; typing on this thing feels like dancing.

Available in a wide array of colors (hence the "fashion" moniker). Also the keys can be had in black, which won't look disgusting after a year of use.

Check out http://www.pcwebshopper.com/mp3.html and http://store.yahoo.net/s168/mp3playernew.html for a small, cheap mp3 player. I have one and it works great. No display though.

Prices are a bit higher, but they have other brands as well.

When V was all the rage in the UK, so was Billy Graham (the US preacher). His posters were all over the church boards in my home town.

One day I saw a couple of people hanging around my local church notice board, laughing.

When I went up to see the gag, I saw that someone had sprayed a big red V on a Billy Graham poster.

At first I laughed along with the rest. But later, my joy turned to confused terror, when I read of David Ickes horrific theories about reptiles (load of c**p really, but quite funny - but please don't follow the link if you are easily offended, or seriously stupid, like this guy ;)...

Seems to me that Icke's theories started around the time V was broadcast in the UK - so the original series has a lot to answer for ;) Bring on the next series (we need more nuts!)

Maybe Billy should wear a pair of these to stop people spotting his weird, reptilian eyes .. darn that reptilian agenda ...

- Bundle up the wires in twist-ties and keep them out of the way so that they don't vibrate in the breeze from fans. It only takes a small touch to disrupt an HDD power cable. Some, but not all, also say that this will improve airflow. It will definitely make your case look tidier and make later work inside it more easy

You can also use round cables. You can find these for sale at many sites, but the cheapest place I've found by far is Harbourtown Sales. Gordon (the owner) is a great guy, he's not a real technical geek, but he knows what sells and sets very reasonable prices. He's my favorite source for obscure computer parts (i.e., replacement mouse balls).

If you order from him, tell him that "Michael who used to work for Wintergreen" sent you...

I can see a possible application for this: speed detector jamming. Lots of people buy radar/laser/microwave detectors for their cars to try to beat the cops. There are even some on the market which claim to scramble the speed detector in such a way to disable the readout. With the quantum laser/maser setup, the faster you drive, the hotter your exhaust, and the hotter your exhaust, the more ferociously you jam anyone attempting to gauge your speed. Great!

Don't know how much dual-tuner DirecTivos cost to make but Hughes is selling one now for 99 bucks!! (Yahoo) It has a Digital Optical output and up to 35 hours of storage. I just got one for Christmas.

The menuing system is slower than dirt but I love the dual-tuners. Our old standalone Tivo used to interrupt our TV watching nightly to record something... Very annoying.