XTECH
yahoo is opening up services to 3rd party innovation, participation platform
roadmap
openness is benefit to the business, accellerates
value in creating ecosystems for users and developers
open all of Yahoo up as much as possible
Feb 2005 first API : Search
RSS
Jun 2005 simple maps API
Aug shopping API
Nov Ajax + Flash maps
Jan 2006
open source JS pattern library
compatibility matrix for browsers
do acquisitions of services with APIs
does some maps demoes
Rollyo, list of domains to search in
does some flickr demoes
nothing very enlightening
commercial access?
is currently hugely inefficient and inconsistent, want to make it clearer and get more consistency
want to expand beyond read-only webservices (Gdata?)
