Location data is everywhere. From huge government databases of geographic features to your pictures in Facebook, it seems like almost every piece of information around nowadays is tagged with its location. However, it still seems that no one is effectively sharing information, or building the smart, next-generation systems that will surely rely on data...
The “Internet of Places” is a nice article putting forth an ecosystem of information and services to bring the geospatial world better in line with the Web. Or one could even say it suggests an information ecosystem where geospatial data would help the Web make a quantum leap in information linking and tagging. I...
I was excited to see this. I think Pipes and YQL are some of the most exciting mashup technologies out there right now, so it’s heartening to see Yahoo! hiring for this team in the midst of all the turmoil there. http://blog.pipes.yahoo.net/2009/10/22/job-principal-software-engineer-pipes-team/
I came across this story today, “Yahoo Opens Address Book Interface.” A quote: Yahoo is opening the interface for its address book for outside use…For example, a programmer starting up a social networking site could use the interface to send invitations to a member’s list of contacts stored at Yahoo. Yahoo users have stored...