SearchMonkey Rides with the Semantic Web Gang- August 30, 2008 For those of you who are interested in learning more about how structured data fits in with SearchMonkey and Yahoo! Search strategy, please tune in to the latest Semantic Web Gag podcast to hear our very own Peter Mika discussing topics such as: how SearchMonkey is helping to motivate large site owners to use semantic data the importance of shared vocabularies for application interoperability the emergence of automated tools for extracting semantic data, such as Calais This podcast is...http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/08/searchmonkey_ri.html Show off the videos of your favourite band with the Yahoo Music API- August 29, 2008 There's a new kid on the API block in Yahoo land: the Yahoo Music API. It comes with programmatic access to the data on Yahoo Music and supports all the goodies you got to know from other Yahoo APIs: XML or JSON output, option to define a callback method for JSON output and filtering via REST parameters. All of this is explained in detail in the extensive API guide and there is also a Music API forum to get help. The really cool thing about the API is that it allows you to get music videos..http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/08/show_off_the_vi.html Geeks in Oxford- August 28, 2008 Oxford was once the intellectual capital of the world and while they might have to share that title now, the place is still buzzing with smart people. Oxford geek night was not what I expected at all. To start with the opening talk wasn't a talk, it was an act! Ben Walker's geeky music certainly tickled me. It's great to see a musician writing songs about Twitter because that's what he's into. Apparently Nerdcore isn't the only musical genre with musicians that can write code. There were a..http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/08/much_more_than.html |