The Future is Yahoo the Platform

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September 18, 2008 – 4:47 pm PDT – by Rob Diana 4 Comments

During the Microhoo debacle, everyone was wondering who was going to buy Yahoo. While all eyes were on that, Yahoo has been quietly going about its business. Their business now seems to be wanting to become the platform that everyone develops for, and that initiative is called Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS).

In the past few months, we have seen the release of SearchMonkey, FireEagle and the BOSS API. On Monday we saw the addition of two preview technologies, Yahoo! Social APIs and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL). Obviously, Yahoo has not been giving us empty promises.

So, what have they given us so far?

• SearchMonkey – the structured search result data API
• FireEagle – the location aware API
• BOSS – the build your own search service API
• Social APIs – a suite of preview APIs for basic social networking, contact communications, user status and user activity.
• Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) – a preview release of a single endpoint service to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo and beyond.

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