Yahoo! Open is Real
We’ve pushed even more documentation and tools live at developer.yahoo.com, including documentation of our new YOS social apis as well as YQL (Yahoo! Query Language). After working on this behind the firewall for so long, it’s great to finally release it and see coverage like this article in Mashable coming in.
October 14th, 2008 05:22
Hi Greg — It’s terrific that you’ve opened up Yahoo to developers. At the same time, I’m struck that for every developer there must be 100 or 1000 regular folks. I was a developer about 20 years ago but I don’t have time or interest anymore to get into code. Rather, I’m amazed that Yahoo hasn’t made it as easy as Google to embed more without coding skills required and/or done things like “My Maps” that Google has that allows a non-coder to easily manipulate their tools. I keep waiting and waiting, for example, for Flickr to have every page like YouTube where the embed code is waiting to be grabbed. As it is, I have to use a 3rd party tool like Flickr Slidr. Any update on what you are doing on the non-developer front?
My editorial comment is I think those living in the Silicon Valley bubble think every other person in the word is a coder/hacker and wants to develop code for their own mashup. Yahoo is a great consumer brand and ought to leverage that IMHO. This should be low-hanging fruit for Yahoo.
Thanks!