Mar 01 2005

Yahoo! Web Services

Published by mkennedy at 8:26 am under Programming, Web APIs

It looks like Yahoo! has jumped into the web services arena by offering a set of APIs that developers can use to tap into many of the information services Yahoo! offers, such as yellow pages, maps, news, and video. Paul Bausch has a good introductory article over on the O’Reilly Network.

One interesting possibility for using the various web services offered by Yahoo!, Google, and Amazon would be building a completely client-side dashboard that would let you tap into all of the services in different ways. All of the APIs return XML to the browser, and since most modern browsers now have support for the XmlHttpRequest object, a complete application that uses these APIs could be packaged up as a set of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and maybe XSLT files that can be run locally.

That might be a fun project to tackle.

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