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Yahoo! Opens Its Website To Third-Party Developers

Posted by Soulskill on from the catching-bigger-fish dept.

Matt Asay writes "Yahoo! has taken a step beyond Google by opening up its website and other services to third-party developers, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. 'The efforts ... range from allowing users to search other content — such as classified-ad sites — from within Yahoo Mail to allowing them to access online music download services like that of Amazon.com Inc. from within Yahoo Music ... [as well as] redesigning [Yahoo!'s] home page to make it easier for users to tap these third-party services.' It's a good move toward an open-source web, but still leaves Yahoo! and other cloud-based applications vulnerable to obsolescence, a problem recently examined by ReadWriteWeb, which discussed a few good applications that have disappeared from the web. It's good to see Yahoo! becoming more permeable to outside development, but it would also be nice to see its applications outlive the company's attention span or life span." Yahoo! ran Open Hack 2008 over Friday and Saturday. Coverage will be available soon at their developers page.

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  1. Searching Craigslist by Cornelius42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Without violating Craigslist terms of service. I have created a nation wide search, and state search for Craiglist. The links are.

    http://atl.org/~ed/craigslist/
    http://atl.org/~ed/craigslist/queryState.php

    I built it for a small group of friends, and I'm sure it will collapse under the weight of a slashdot effect. But searching Craigslist can be done without violating section 12.b of the terms of service.

  2. No, you're missing the point. by Dr.+Crash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, you're missing the point.

    The point is to tell the PC games industry that
    the game is over. Give people what they want
    (that is, no hassles) and you'll get business.

    Give them hassles, and they will walk away from
    your billion-polygons-amazing-detail wrechedness,
    because it's just not worth it any more.

    We're tired of having to repair the damage things
    like game rootkits and SecuROM does to our
    systems. OUR systems, mind you. NOT _your_
    systems.

    Or do you want to drive business to VALVE and
    Nintendo?

    Vote with your wallets, folks.