#yahoo (65 links)
- How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet m.gizmodo.com
- Online YUI Compressor refresh-sf.com
- Server-side detection of Yahoo Graded Browser Support C-grade browsers monospaced.co.uk · Archived on
Nice.
- YUI Theater — Dav Glass: “Using Node.js and YUI 3″ (36 min.) » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog) yuiblog.com · Archived on
Melted brain.
- What Happened to Yahoo paulgraham.com
"So which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Which companies are "in the software business" in this respect? As Yahoo discovered, the area covered by this rule is bigger than most people realize. The answer is: any company that needs to have good software."
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Of Hamsters, Feature Creatures and Missed Opportunities – my talk at Fronteers 2009 wait-till-i.com · Archived on
"How some of the traits we have as developers keep us from evolving and our market from maturing" plus some good stuff on YQL.
- Mozilla Webdev » Blog Archive » Cesium 0.1 Released! blog.mozilla.com
A hybrid web application/testing harness that automatically runs YSlow on a suite of pages of the user’s choosing at scheduled times, stores these results, and provides a host of graphs and other data concerning the results of these tests.
- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy's three-legged race fakesteve.blogspot.com
A classic quote from last time round: "The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster."
- Adam Goucher » Blog Archive » YSlow and Continuous Integration adam.goucher.ca
This post explains how, if I didn’t have a whole bunch of stuff on my plate right now, I would get YSlow failing builds.
Via paul.irish.
- Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.
- Sideline from Yahoo! sideline.yahoo.com
An Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.
- Del.icio.us Finally Gets Some Respect from Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is.
- Accessibility Tips accessibilitytips.com
Yahoo folk providing accessibility info.
Good analysis of the recent WebAIM screen reader survey. Use <Hn> tags, think hard about accesskeys, use skip links, know your audience.
"Some tips on how to configure your development environment for screen reader testing." Although getting a dev to play with a screenreader can lead to a false sense of security; no substitute for proper testing.
"The "Open Stack" refers to a set of technologies that work together to make it easier for web developers and users to manage access to user data across the Web."
They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.
- Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library developer.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG)
- Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth.
"In the coming weeks, we'll be releasing more detailed specifications that will describe our support of semantic web standards. Initially, we plan to support a number of microformats, including hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom, and XFN." Rock on.
We’ve just published 26,456,448 hListings on Kelkoo. [...] Alongside that gigantic number, we’ve also published 6500 hcards for the details of our merchants and stores; the companies listing the products on Kelkoo.
What does all this mean? It means we can expect the web to get itself organized, in a hurry. At stake is a significant amount of traffic from Yahoo search, and anyone else that may choose to build applications on top of this data.
- Yahoo! Media Player developer.yahoo.com
Enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist.
Clever clever. "What this does is quietly redirects any files located in our \scripts\ or \css\ folders with version numbers in between the file name and the extension back to just the filename and extension."
- The Yahoo! Juku » Yahoo! User Interface Blog yuiblog.com
"Front end web development has traditionally been viewed as rather "lightweight"engineering. Around the world, companies assumed that anyone could write HTML [...]". Yahoo's front-end engineering training.
- YUI Theater — PPK on the Professionalization of Frontend Engineering » Yahoo! User Interface Blog yuiblog.com
PPK has embarked recently on a project to create a professional organization for frontend engineers in his native Holland. The organization is called “Fronteers” (frontend engineers)
- Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends at FISTFULAYEN fistfulayen.com · Archived on
A brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music.
- Design Inside Yahoo!: George Oates | unraveled unraveled.com
I talked to George about Flickr’s beginnings at Ludicorp, its place in Yahoo!’s social media strategy and the Flickr design process.
Before you run off and implement all of Yahoo's solid advice, consider the audience. These are rules from Yahoo, which according to Alexa is one of the top three web properties in the world.
- YSlow for Firebug developer.yahoo.com
"...analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool." Hurrah, been waiting for this since @media.
- YUI Theater — Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran: “Introduction to Screen Magnifiers” » Yahoo! User Interface Blog yuiblog.com
Karo Caran takes us on a 16 minute overview of screen magnification software (in this case ZoomText) and how it is used by partially-sighted users to interact with the Web.
Notes from O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo. The workshop was “High Performance Webpages,” a dense, three-hour session with two leads on Yahoo!’s front-end optimization team.
- 14 rules for fast web pages (Skrentablog) skrenta.com
14 rules for faster front end performance
idproxy.net lets you use your Yahoo! account to sign in to sites that support the OpenID standard
- ZoneTag | Yahoo! Research research.yahoo.com
The application allows you to quickly and easily upload images from your camera phone to Flickr. The photos uploaded can be automatically annotated with the location (usually based on cell tower) in which they were taken.