By Liangjie Hong and Suju Rajan
At Yahoo, we invest a lot of effort in generating, retrieving, and presenting content that is engaging to our users. The hypothesis being that the more users are truly engaging with the content in a site, the more they will return to it. Now, what is…
Today we are happy to open source gifshot, a client-side JavaScript library that can create animated GIFs from media streams (e.g. webcam), videos (e.g. mp4), or images (e.g. png). Gifshot leverages cutting edge browser APIs (sorry IE9 and below) such as WebRTC, FileSystem, Video,…
By Yahoo Storm Team (Andy Feng, Bobby Evans, Derek Dagit, Kishorkumar Patil, Paul Poulosky, Dheeraj Kapur, Amrit Lal)
Introduction
As PPMC members and Committers of the Apache Storm project and part of the Yahoo Storm team, we’re thrilled to see Storm become an Apache Top-Level…
By Amotz Maimon, Chief Architect, Yahoo
Today, we’re excited to announce the new Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) website. Supporting external developers with open source and open APIs has long been key to Yahoo’s success. With over 500,000 developers using Yahoo APIs, we needed a new home to support our developer community. The updated site significantly improves the experience for developers and advertisers using Yahoo APIs such as Search and advertising (Gemini).
What’s new?
Revamped experience: Based on your feedback, we’ve redesigned the site to make it easier for you to use our products. Our new design is mobile-friendly with an easier to use navigation and structure.
Documentation: With our new Getting Started Guides, it’s now faster to create applications using Yahoo APIs. We’re also featuring code examples in different languages to get you up and running as quickly as possible.
Developer Forums: This is the place to find answers or ask questions which may arise when developing with Yahoo APIs.
OAuth 2.0 Support: OAuth 2.0 is the next evolution of the OAuth protocol. We now support OAuth 2.0 for newer Yahoo APIs like Gemini API.
Attribution Guidelines: When you build a product using Yahoo APIs, follow the attribution guidelines posted here.
Check out the new Yahoo Developer Network
We’d love to get your input and hear your thoughts. Voice your feedback, suggestions or request features by visiting our Forums.
Happy coding!
Front-end technology has changed rapidly over the past few years. React has emerged as a modular and performant way to build web applications. It defines a component’s life cycle in an easy and predictable way that works quite well for large scale client-side applications. It’s simple and…
By Jarah Euston, Flurry
Tech media is buzzing that Apple may unveil a phablet-sized iPhone 6 on September 9th. Six years ago, who would have guessed that an extra inch of screen space could cause so much commotion?
The Yahoo User Interface library (YUI) has been in use at Yahoo since 2005, and was first announced to the public on February 13, 2006. Although it has evolved tremendously since that time, YUI has always served the same overarching purpose of providing a comprehensive toolkit to make it…
We’ve been working to make Flickr faster for our users around the world. Since the primary photo storage locations are in the US, and information on the internet travels at a finite speed, the farther away a Flickr user is located from the US, the slower Flickr’s response time will be. Recently, we looked at opportunities to improve this situation. One of the improvements involves keeping temporary copies of recently viewed photos in locations nearer to users. The other improvement aims to get a benefit from these caches even when a user views a photo that is not already in the cache.
By Nicola Barbieri and Francesco Bonchi
What if there were a smarter way to expand your social network? That is to say, what if you were offered a reason to follow someone beyond “people you may know” on Flickr, Facebook, and LinkedIn, “recommended blogs” on Tumblr, and “who to…
Today, it’s official! Flurry is a Yahoo company, and we’re very excited about the next chapter. To kick things off, we wanted to introduce our blog readers and customers to Scott Burke, Yahoo’s Senior VP of Advertising and Data Platforms to help explain why Yahoo and Flurry make sense together, and what the deal means for developers, advertisers and publishers. Flurry: Why did Yahoo decide to acquire Flurry?
