Tuesday, September 27, 2005
yahoo widget presentation
Talk by Dan Theurer, Technical Evangelist at yahoo
Started with power of yahoo APIs of:
1. MAP : how one can overlay his/her application data on top of a yahoo map, embed those applications etc.
Also digressed to advantages of yahoo over google:
a) Yahoo does not limit the number of hits to a low level; instead 5000 queries a day or so
2. Yahoo music engine: access to music engine object model using javasrcript
3. Search API: advanced we interface
4. "Context analyisis" for yahoo searches
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Konfabulator talk:
Control statements, UI controls, timers triggers framework, "widget convertor" to package zip file.
Way of arranging data under widgets: widget folder \WidgetName at the top level
"On load" trigger example was shown.
Also supports debug mode with tag; windows cosnole
Check http://www.widgetgallery.com
and
http://developer.yahoo.net/community
Started with power of yahoo APIs of:
1. MAP : how one can overlay his/her application data on top of a yahoo map, embed those applications etc.
Also digressed to advantages of yahoo over google:
a) Yahoo does not limit the number of hits to a low level; instead 5000 queries a day or so
2. Yahoo music engine: access to music engine object model using javasrcript
3. Search API: advanced we interface
4. "Context analyisis" for yahoo searches
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Konfabulator talk:
Control statements, UI controls, timers triggers framework, "widget convertor" to package zip file.
Way of arranging data under widgets: widget folder \WidgetName at the top level
"On load" trigger example was shown.
Also supports debug mode with
Check http://www.widgetgallery.com
and
http://developer.yahoo.net/community
# posted by Rahul Jain @ 10:28 PM 
