Wednesday, June 4, 2008
It wasn't too long ago I was writing about the Yahoo webtop. Well, now they're putting themselves out there for 3rd party developers in regards to their address book capabilities.Yahoo is releasing an Address Book API today that will give 3rd-party developers access Yahoo users' contact lists without the traditional, but primitive, method of page scraping.
Chris Yeh, the head of the Yahoo developer network, considers this release the second major "proof point" of Yahoo's Open Services (YOS) campaign, which kicked off at the Web 2.0 Expo in March.
"With Yahoo! Address Book, individuals not only have the ability to update, access and store their contact information from anywhere in the world, but they can also take advantage of value-added services integrated into Yahoo! Address Book, such as Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Mail."
Say it with me, YA-HOOOOOOOO!
Labels: open source, yahoo
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
One of the best side effects of using Facebook is knowing when your contacts' birthdays are - but you only see them if you log in. The Facebook application fbCal is out to fix that. Once you install it on Facebook, fbCal creates an iCal file for your Facebook contacts' birthdays as well as Facebook events.And in another fun geeky news:
As Web and desktop applications merge, Yahoo doesn't want to be left out of the Webtop party. That's especially true as Adobe Air and Google Gears apps begin to gain some traction. It turns out that for the past year Yahoo has been working on BrowserPlus, a browser plugin that lets developers add desktop-like features to the browser, including the ability to drag-and-drop items from the desktop onto the browser, manipulate Web images (crop, rotate, etc.), and receive desktop notifications. It works with Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer, on both Windows and Mac OS X.
Labels: calendar, Facebook, webtops, yahoo
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