This is a boost to the emerging Web services arena, and potentially a big deal for grassroots media as well. Giving people some tools to make new kinds of Web-based applications, connecting this set of data on one site with that set of data on another, is part of a phenomenon that will transform the way we think of information.CNet: Yahoo opens up its search toolbox to developers. The network will allow software developers to create new applications (with the aid of application programming interfaces, or APIs) on top of Yahoo search, including images, video, news and local search.
Google already has done some of this. Now Yahoo is upping the ante, it appears -- and Web users will be the winners in the end.
Might I add to this list Flickr.com, and this openness to third party development has been a large reason for its surge in popularity.
Posted by: Andrew | March 01, 2005 at 04:58 PM