Comments for Yahoo ups the ante with APIs

Yahoo ups the ante with APIs

2006-03-08T23:30:34Z

Yahoo has announced four new APIs for its Developer Network: Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping. The Shopping 2.0 API is available now, while the Photos, Calendar and MyWeb read/write APIs will be available soon [updated - thanks Jeffrey]. While they'll be free to use for non commercial purposes, Ash Patel (Yahoo chief product officer) tells us there are commercial offerings coming soon.

Yahoo's new Application Gallery

I remember speaking with ex-YPN chief Toni Schneider about this last year and I was impressed by his vision for a commercial platform for APIs. I'm expecting Yahoo to really the ante with Google and Microsoft in terms of mashup ecosystems. Don't count out AOL and eBay either. [...]

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Comment from Jeffrey McManus on 2006-03-08

2006-03-09T01:29:09Z

The Shopping 2.0 API is available now. Photos, Calendar and MyWeb read/write will be available soon.

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2006-03-08

2006-03-09T01:52:02Z

Thanks Jeffrey, updated now.

Comment from Sam Sethi on 2006-03-09

2006-03-09T08:30:32Z

IF federated trust finally comes to life via Infocards or some other mechanism then what would stop me having a client application that mashes up the best parts of the web i.e Google Search,Flickr, Messenger, and seamlessly logs me onto all of these services with one userid.

Equally using Greasemonkey I could then hid all of the adverts. The question is where does the GYM club then make its money? The software is free. I would not need a commerical API license and I would not be a billboard customer for them to pass adverts through me? I wonder as they keep releasing new API's if they have gone that far in their thinking?