Yahoo has announced new details about its BOSS Search API, including pricing updates. The company says developers will pay $0.80 per 1,000 searches for unlimited service. Yahoo offered more details in its search blog. “ A more limited web results service with a lower price point will also be available for developers who can utilize
Developers with an interest in “smart” TVs might want to give a second thought to Yahoo’s involvement in the field. Today, Yahoo put out a call for developers to build widgets for the Yahoo Connected TV Store. Juan Carlos Perez reported this afternoon, “Yahoo is expanding its Connected TV program so that developers can build
Yahoo isn’t going to stand in the way of developers who want to make money. Yesterday, the company cleared the path for developers to monetize social data gathered from over 600 million (consenting) individuals. This isn’t a free-for-all, of course; Yahoo wants everyone to comply with certain terms and conditions. Still, this looks like the
Yahoo’s SearchMonkey developer tool is soon going to be effectively yanked out of its tree. Yahoo’s decided to discontinue the tool as the company continues to rethink its approach to just about everything, and that means SearchMonkey will no longer be available as of October 1st. A post on the Yahoo Developer Network Blog explained,
If the Yahoo User Interface interests you, a new giveaway should be right up your alley. In return for just a question or couple of sentences, copies of Daniel Barreiro’s and Dan Wellman’s YUI 2.8: Learning the Library are being made available. That book is currently selling for $71.08, so “free” is a pretty huge
Another opportunity for developers to become familiar with Yahoo’s way of doing things is almost here. A session known as YUI: Open Hours is scheduled to take place tomorrow, and a fair number of useful details should be shared. The main attractions at this event will in fact be Nate Cavanaugh and Eduardo Lundgren of
Yahoo gave an update on its cloud storage platform, Sherpa today. Yahoo says the service addresses scalability, availability, and latency needs of Yahoo sites. “Sherpa is horizontally scalable, and supports this scale elastically based on capacity demands. Sherpa is globally deployed within Yahoo! and data is replicated asynchronously (typically under a second) across data centers.
For sports fans, it’s that time of year again: the time when tennis, basketball, hockey, and soccer events all compete for a person’s attention, causing individuals to spend hours on end thinking about athletes and matchups’ outcomes. So developers might do well to take advantage of Yahoo’s Fantasy Sports API. Yahoo’s API is just focusing
It’s time for developers who are Yahoo fans and would like to do something developer-y this month to pull out their calendars. Yahoo’s released a schedule of Yahoo Developer Network events that will take place in June, and in terms of both subject matter and geographic spread, there’s something for almost everyone. Here’s a quick
A social games developer has sealed a deal with one of the more recognizable tech companies around. Zynga will now see its games made available on many high-profile sites thanks to a partnership with Yahoo. A post on Yodel Anecdotal explained, “In the coming months, you’ll be able to play your favorite Zynga games in
