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Yahoo! Opens Floodgates On Homepage To Devs
alphadogg writes to mention that at their "Open Hack Day" conference today and tomorrow, Yahoo plans on opening the floodgates to their homepage in hopes that developers will start building massive numbers of applications for general distribution. "Announced in April 2008, YOS [Yahoo's Open Strategy] aims to open all of the company's online services, sites and applications to third-party developers, as well as give end users a 'social profile' dashboard to unify and manage their Yahoo services. Swinging wide open the doors of Yahoo.com to external developers is a big milestone in this ambitious effort. Until now, Yahoo has erred on the conservative side when it comes to allowing tightly-integrated applications for its home page, opting to work individually with hand-picked partners."
Too bad "social networking" is soooooo 5 years ago.
The homepage is now being held this wide.
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5547
oh great, now I get to get superpoked by my friends when i search for something on yahoo.
They're still around?
So it's a bit like the Facebook platform only less social, fewer eyes, and years late? I know that's being awfully critical, but c'mon... Yahoo! has had the day-late, dollar-short affliction for a long time now.
*shivers*. It's kinda chilly here in my office in Hell. I'm afraid the place might freeze over tonight.
If i can make the home page look more like a search engine and less like all the cable news sites (full of crap) then maybe i will actually try their service out.
ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ONE! Just brushing up for my next big invention: Ethernet over Voice (EoV)
I hope you are karma whoring with such lame post which is guaranteed (somehow) to get "score".
Do you have a clue about the real web, the web companies/people really care about? Check table 3 at http://ir.comscore.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=366591 . You will see Yahoo is still around, at second place after Google with 146 freaking million unique visitors. Can you render that number in your brain? 146 million unique visitors on Yahoo properties and they open their main property to developers.
Do you think MS was joking when they tried to buy them for 44.6 billion dollars? Grow up really...
Yahoo is used as a gigantic portal, "Internet utility" and some kind of communication platform. They were never a good search engine, their hopes went away as early as DEC got Altavista.com up. Inktomi gave them some band aid but they finally figured it is a good corporate search engine, not something to race with Google.
While Internet was small, their directory was good, that is all. In fact, this is what Yahoo was, originally: http://dir.yahoo.com/ . People tend to forget that for some period of time, they completely gave up "search" and used Google backend. They are switching to Bing now which interestingly surprises people.
Google is the clear "lets do a portal like them" wannabe(!) guy here, their iGoogle isn't at My.Yahoo of 1999 level yet. They also deal with a huge problem as even Joe Sixpacks started to say "enough with your leech of my data" to them. That was never a problem with Yahoo.
You should travel to Asia, especially Japan and Hong Kong to see their real power.
I wonder how many huge router, server, software high end suits race to sell something to those "freak" sites you mention.
I am talking about real web, the web of Joe Sixpacks and hell, they go to Yahoo. Even their Real Estate sites which are very big deal now (economy) are easily beating anyone on market.
BTW, Comscore keeps track of those sites you mention too, they just don't release it to general web.
Retarded.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Binoculars?o=
*moves Yahoo CEO until he's facing the Google building* Pssst, Maybe you should try stealing! It'll keep you closer to the curve.
Get ready for the iYahoo deployment next week!
(All in all I think it'll be a good move for Yahoo, but obviously a bit late to matter..)
~Mekkah
For what it is worth, Yahoo Mail is the ONLY online service I have paid for over the last 10 years. $19.95/yr.
Music? Nope.
Movies? Nope.
Software? Nope.
Games? Nope.
Yes, I am a cheapskate but I do not care what you think of my behavior. I only post this as anecdotal evidence that Yahoo does have some valuable web properties. At the top of the list is Yahoo Mail.
Ok, Gmail fanboys....your turn. I've said my piece.
will they be open sourcing anything? will they stop using windows only codecs and standards? will that message "your platform is unsupported" go away when i login to my mail under linux? will their search engine actually return hits for things im actually looking for? If they use open standards their technology would work on every platform and they would actually save money in the long term IT only makes sense since their company was built on top of opensource
I actually use Yahoo. Seriously. It is my main messenger and I get the vast majority of my sports news from it and in fact like a number of their journalists/bloggers. I am actually very pleased with Yahoo opening up their stuff. Their compatability with 3rd party messengers SUCKS and having some more stuff that works with KDE's social desktop would be A-OK with me.
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
Yes, Yahoo! is now a Bing! portal, along with the other services they used to provide. They no longer provide search themselves, so they are basically a Bing! portal and entertainment site, I guess.
Twinstiq, game news
Yawn.Who?
Go!
Every other story ends up with 200+ replies. This one: 40+. That says it all about Yahoo.
I hope they open up their IM infrastructure. It's really annoying when they change (read: break) stuff in the protocol and pidgin has to play catch up. Pidgin usually does catch up after 1 or 2 days but i still see lingering issues with logging into YM after the last major change yahoo made. Also it would be nice to finally have YM voice and video support in linux and BSD. Better yet, they could release an up-to-date, GPL'ed yahoo messenger for linux and i wouldn't mind switching to that. I hate to admit it but pidgin's bugs piss me off a good deal sometimes.
Yah, Who ?
I'm seeing lots of grief here about Yahoo products, but I've had excellent service for both my web page and mail. If there's an alternative for these products that's just as easy, but cheaper or more open, I'd like to hear about it.