YUI Team Releases YUI 3.0.0 beta 1

Posted June 24, 2009

YUI 3, the first beta release of our next-generation JavaScript and CSS library, is a big step forward, featuring improvements to every facet of the library.

The syntax is more terse, allowing you to write more compact code using techniques like chaining. The API is selector-driven, which allows you to target page elements flexibly. The library is even more modular and granular than before, so you only put code on the page for features you need. And YUI 3 retains all of the power and scalability of its predecessor.

Download YUI 3.0.0 beta 1 | Read the documentation | Find examples | Visit the YUI forums

Watch Satyen Desai's tech talk on the YUI 3 architecture

Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop Now Available

Posted June 10, 2009

Apache Hadoop is an open source Java software framework for running data-intensive applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. Because Yahoo! runs the largest Hadoop clusters in the world, many people have asked us to publish the version of Apache Hadoop that we test and deploy. In response, we are releasing the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop -- a source code distribution that is based entirely on code found in the Apache Hadoop project.

The Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop is available through the Yahoo! Developer Network.

Learn more about Apache Hadoop | An engineer's perspective: the Hadoop blog

New Applications on My Yahoo! & Yahoo! Mail

Posted June 5, 2009

Today, we're announcing a collection of new apps for My Yahoo! built on the Yahoo! Application Platform and several new apps for Yahoo! Mail. All of these new apps were created by third-party developers working closely with Yahoo! as part of our open strategy.

Congratulations and thanks to the developers at the following companies: Drugs.com, Flixster, Forbes, Gasbuddy, GreatSchools, kaChing, LabPixies, LiveScience, Mint.com, Mokugift, MyRecipes, Nozbe, OtherInbox, PayPal, Photobucket, Picnik, Snooth, Time and Date, WeRead, WordPress.com, Xoopit, Zumo Drive. Check out their latest apps on Yahoo!.

My Yahoo! Open Apps | YDN Blog Post | Yahoo! Mail Blog Post

Increase Your 'Whereness' with Y! Placemaker

Posted May 20, 2009

Yahoo! Placemaker is a geoparsing Web service that gives you a way to determine the 'whereness' of unstructured content. This read-only service identifies, disambiguates, and 'extracts' places from structured and unstructured text content, such as web pages, feeds, news, blog posts, and status updates.

As an open API, Yahoo! Placemaker helps developers make applications and datasets location-aware. It's not a geocoder; it's a geo-enrichment service that returns geographic metadata, making the Internet more location aware.

Yahoo! Placemaker | Documentation | Forum | Spec Sheet | Yahoo! Geo Technologies Blog