The New Yahoo Developer Network

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by yahoodeveloper • 12 years ago

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man this CEO really has her shit together ... female CEOs seem to make companies that know their customer base ... thats sexest but anyway ... yahoo is looking better and better

kumarm• 12 years ago

Being Techie I like the change Marissa is doing but Lets be honest under Marissa Mayer YHOO value has decreased if you remove AliBaba factor.

azifali2• 12 years ago

I am glad that Yahoo is waking up to the mobile & platform revolution after sleeping through the most important parts of it. Glad that it is not pretending to be "media" company anymore.

Flurry acquisition was a good act. This should give them a great headstart against FB.

https://developer.yahoo.com/games/ - Yahoo Games network is positioned badly. The opening tag line is "monetize your games" but I find the monetization piece missing. What it is trying to be is a platform for mobile apps and games., it is positioned as a gaming platform to get developers on board I think.

Yahoo's play in the ad exchange space is still nonexistent; however not surprising considering that they spent insane amounts of money acquiring vaporware from Bluelithium and others.

The current ad execs are also clueless and absolutely not reachable, I expect this trend to continue.

swartkrans• 12 years ago

Glad that it is not pretending to be "media" company anymore.

When you hire people like Katie Couric and David Pogue you are still a media company.

tpinto• 12 years ago

It's so good to see Yahoo! going back to what I've always liked about it: providing developers with good building blocks to create the web (and mobile) of tomorrow.

Isofarro• 12 years ago

I'd be wary of touching any Yahoo API that isn't a core part of their business. Developer enthusiasm isn't enough considering how likely, when Yahoo run into difficulties, they'll just sunset APIs we're using.

I want to say the Search API is a good example of a core business proposition: there's a revenue stream there for the service, but the search results are probably from Bing, so although the Yahoo side looks like it has longevity, the reliance and licensing of search metadata from Microsoft is a dependency that ups the risk of using this API. I don't really trust Microsoft not to pull the carpet out from under us when they've collected a sufficient number of eyeballs to consider the second step of a bait and switch.

cwyers• 12 years ago

If you're excluding search (and I think your reasoning is at least plausible), then what IS a core part of Yahoo's business?

hayksaakian• 12 years ago

News and email

smacktoward• 12 years ago

Reorganizations?

TallGuyShort• 12 years ago

They've made it clear that they're in the business of being a media company, not a technology company. So I would say that the media-focussed products like Tumblr are probably more reliable bets, but it also means that they're more likely to pivot based on unpredictable trends, rather than focus on any specific technological capability.

patio11• 12 years ago

Yahoo is a holding company focused on large, category-leading sites in Asian markets. They also own a struggling portal in the US.

mattmanser• 12 years ago

I thought yahoo were pretty good, hasn't YQL been running for donkeys? And YSlow. Or am I confusing it with another service. I'm sure I used it about 5 or 6 years ago.

nekitamo• 12 years ago

YQL has been falling apart for years now. Sometimes it's down for me for over 48 hours.

plorg• 12 years ago

I don't know how it works for outside developers, but I've discovered that they use it heavily for some of their own media projects including, for example, their video product Yahoo Screen. What that means for longevity is probably an open question.

azifali2• 12 years ago

Anyone from Yahoo Adtech around here?

aikah• 12 years ago

Where is pipe ? it was definetly a interesting idea,but it seems it has been "abandonned".Is there any alternative,with a graphic interface ?

saurabhsahni3• 12 years ago

Try YQL instead: https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

spullara2• 12 years ago

It is still running, it now uses YQL as the backend:

https://pipes.yahoo.com

staunch• 12 years ago

Is there anything comparable to Yahoo's BOSS Search API? Does DuckDuckGo still use it?

saurabhsahni3• 12 years ago

DuckDuckGo is indeed using Yahoo BOSS Search API. It's featured here: https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/

tsurantino• 12 years ago

Doesn't Yahoo use Bing for search? How do they have a Search API? https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/

miralabs• 12 years ago

it is still Bing.

ldng• 12 years ago

Do you hapen to know if the search is simply delegated to Bing or is it the Bing engine running against a different index (yahoo's) ?

Germany• 12 years ago

ok, lets roll up the sleeves and code something :)

chris_wot• 12 years ago

You can do that without Yahoo you know.

stevekl• 12 years ago

Yeah right. Good luck getting me back onto their platform.

Last year, our startup was heavily relying on their yahoo local API.

One day, we started having a lot of errors. We inspected the errors and it said "NO RESPONSE".

We started googling why and realized that yahoo basically just decided to shutdown the servers with ZERO notice.

Of course, There were tons of complaints about it on the forum. There were no response from yahoo. For us, The API was an important part of the product, and suddenly, our product was taken away from us.

No notice, no deprecation warning. Just one big middle finger.

There is NO WAY I am ever using yahoo with that kind of attitude.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19386027/yahoo-local-sear...

tszming2• 12 years ago

If anyone from Yahoo! are here for listening: some of your servers' SSL cert was expired https://sa.edit.yahoo.com/ (expired at 7/9). I've reported to your security team (via hackerone) and they replied me as ".. do not appear to be any security implications as a direct result of this behavior. .." and it is still not fixed after a week of my report.

How long does it take to update the SSL cert? I hope someone at Yahoo! with good heart can pick this up.

cobookman2• 12 years ago

Just forwarded an email to our company wide listserv. It should be fixed soon.

tszming2• 12 years ago

Cool, thanks.

cdnsteve• 12 years ago

If someone asked me what Yahoo's core offering today was, I couldn't answer it. If you asked me that 10 years ago, I would immediately say search.

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