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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The Shopping 2.0 API is available now. Photos, Calendar and MyWeb read/write will be available soon.
Posted by: Jeffrey McManus | March 8, 2006 5:29 PM
Thanks Jeffrey, updated now.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | March 8, 2006 5:52 PM
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?
Posted by: Sam Sethi | March 9, 2006 12:30 AM