Chuck FreedmanIn this incredible, insightful and revealing article with Kevin Cheng of Yahoo!’s Local UED team, the use of Flash for mapping technology is discussed. Joshua Kaufman: Why did you go with Flash opposed to the more widely used AJAX? Kevin Cheng: Why not? I mentioned this in a blog entry when we released the beta. [...]
Archive | September, 2006
Yahoo! Public Hack Day > Double Duty
I found out today I will be speaking not once but twice at Yahoo!’s first public Hack Day coming up Friday Sept. 29-30. At 11:00 Vince Maniago, Mirek Grymuza and I will present “Using Yahoo! Local Services to Power Your Application” (a reprise of our presentation from Where 2.0). The presentation is updated to cover the [...]
Charred laptop at Yahoo!
Charred laptop at Yahoo! Originally uploaded by Chico Gino. So there we were, finishing up a meeting on the 3rd floor when this faint burning smell started seeping into our conference room. Soon after, the fire alarm went off. As we herded down the stairs thoughts of The Office: The Fire episode flashed through [...]
The Fallen Tree
A quiet and pleasant trip to the mall (Santa Clara Valley Vair) this past weekend turned into something else when a tree fell right in front of us in the parking lot. We stopped just in time. Luckily, I was going slow (people entering and exiting right near a mall entrance) and did not [...]
Announcing Yahoo! Maps Mashups
Finally, a comprehensive guide to developing mashups with the Yahoo! Maps APIs. Wrox’s Yahoo! Maps Mashups is one of the first books available that teaches web developers how to build innovative applications with Yahoo!’s Maps APIs. With tremendous support for AJAX and Flash technologies, Yahoo!’s Maps API offerings let developers push map technology to its [...]
