"I have a confession to make - I am an open data junkie. When the Guardian newspaper in the UK released a comprehensive set of FIFA Worldcup 2010 statistics, I got itchy fingers and wanted to find the story in that set of data. What better to use for this than YQL (Yahoo! Query Language)?"

Another attempt (vs. the textfiles one) to backup all of geocities.

"springsteen provides a trivial wrapper for Yahoo! BOSS, but goes further and provides a simple framework for building distributed search networks. If you dream of a world where every blog network is searchable, and each niche has its own vertical search, then springsteen is for you."

"BOSS gives you a lot of power and comes with a lot of options, but most of the time all you want to do is to do a simple search, get some information back and display it. This is exactly what this wrapper library does and it is built purely in JavaScript with no server-side dependencies."

Effective use of YUI, JSON, XHR, etc.

"The Term Extraction Web Service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content." I couldn't find the terms of service for this resource though...

"With Yahoo! oneConnect you’ll be free to use all your favorite communications tools and services to connect with anyone, at anytime. From IM or text, email or social networks; Yahoo! oneConnect intends to integrate all the ways you communicate into a unique, mobile experience. Imagine having all your contact information at your fingertips; email, phone numbers, text, and IM addresses; in one location—your phone"

Fire Eagle is an API from Yahoo! for sharing presence data over the internet. The privacy and 3rd party app handling bits are well done. It is also out of beta now. Yay Brickhouse.

"BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure."

ZooKeeper is a service for coordinating processes of distributed applications.

inputEx is a javascript framework to build fields and forms built on top of YUI.

"I have come to realize that management does not seem to fully understand how to run a fucking taco truck, much less an actual, you know, $30 billion business."

Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG)

BrowserPlus™ is a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities.

"The Yahoo! Internet Location Platform provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth."

How to update your Fire Eagle location on Mac OS X in a mostly automatic way. Simple hack, I like it.

Tim Hawkins of Yahoo! on scaling web services

Makes me consider actually trying out Yahoo! for search, something I almost never do. Add Flickr data and we've got a party.

Yahoo! pulls a Microsoft - taking a developing spec and renaming it for their own use. It is not really a win for anyone.

"Webpage-to-RSS Pipe generates RSS from any webpage which doesn't have native syndication. It utilizes a data mining service called Feedity ( www.feedity.com ) to dynamically build the RSS, and then only return unique items."