Yahoo! Lets Developers In as Part of its OpenSocial Strategy
Posted in Open Source by admin on October 30th, 2008 Search engine number two’s Yahoo! has officially introduced its “open strategy” platform to the world – Y!OS. The Yahoo! Open Strategy platform is made up of three development components; the Yahoo! Social platform, the Yahoo! Application platform, and the Yahoo! Query Language.
Yahoo! want developers to begin working with these tools, with the promise of releasing some of the newly created applications within Yahoo!’s pages.
The Yahoo! Social platform is a group of social API’s that give developers the chance to use Yahoo! Tools and data to build application for use on Yahoo! as well as on their own websites.
Yahoo! Query Language is an API that gives developers access to information across sites and web services in a way that is not to dissimilar than using SQL commands than its typical “programming” language.
Yahoo! Application platform (YAP) is the method of delivering applications, in a similar way that Google’s Code pages do. The YAP supports developer hosted app’s that work with the Yahoo! Social and Query Language APIs, as well as the OpenSocial JavaScript API. The App platform also has spam protection built in, and gives users the chance to disable the sharing of information with any connecting applications.
According to Yahoo! this is just the beginning. Over the rest of this year and next will focus on bringing more open features as well as developed applications. Yahoo! Is one of the founders of the OpenSocial Foundation, and this is its first formal implementation of Open Social support. Yahoo! plans to do more to open its platform, from developer tools to portable contacts.
