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Archive for June, 2009

Mokugift.com Green Lifestyle

Overview

Today is World Environment Day and we’re happy to announce the availability of Mokugift Green Lifestyle, a new open app for My Yahoo!. Founder Hans Chung explains how Green Lifestyle raises environmental awareness through its social and educational features.

Mint.com, Part 1

Overview

Mint.com, the leading online personal finance management website, recently developed an open app for My Yahoo!. Built on the Yahoo! Application Platform, Mint.com Personal Finance provides My Yahoo! users with a secure view into their financial essentials. Mint’s VP of Engineering, David Michaels, provides an overview of Mint and their new app on My Yahoo!

Where 2.0 with Gary Gale

Overview

Where 2.0 took place in San Jose just a few weeks ago. Everybody was pretty excited about the launch of Yahoo! Placemaker and the open release of GeoPlanet data. Gary Gale, who leads the Yahoo! Geo Technologies engineering team in the UK, spent a little time chatting with attendees on the showfloor to get different perspectives from the geo-community and a sense of why people were there.

Glenn Jones- Identify, Part 2

Glenn Jones- Identify, Part 1

Overview

Glenn Jones is the creative director of Madgex, a company that delivers sites and web-based applications for the publishing and recruitment sectors. We had a chance to talk to Glenn about Identify, a Firefox extension that combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual.

Identify makes extensive use of Google’s Social Graph API to find out about which sites an individual has profiles on, and then uses YQL to collect the information. In this video, Glenn provides more details about Identify