Comments on: Yahoo! Open is Real http://gregcohn.com/blog/yahoo/2008/09/yahoo-open-is-real/ An Echo Park Yahoo's place for thoughts on life and the web Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:05:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Dave Chase http://gregcohn.com/blog/yahoo/2008/09/yahoo-open-is-real/comment-page-1/#comment-63530 Dave Chase Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:22:22 +0000 http://gregcohn.com/blog/yahoo/2008/09/yahoo-open-is-real/#comment-63530 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! 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.

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