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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.

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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

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Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow. In this talk, he presents some of the best practices from his next book, including optimizing CSS selectors, flushing the document early, and discovering why 15% of users don’t get compressed responses.

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In our latest YDN Lightning Talk, we have a seat with Tom Hughes-Croucher, an evangelist for Yahoo! developer tools. Tom has worked on front-end engineering for Yahoo! and a number of Accessibility standards for recognized standards bodies such as the World Wide Web consortium and the British Standards Institute. Tom shares about some developer tools he likes to use, including YQL.

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Today’s JavaScript is a decent language for writing small scale scripts. But even for beginners, it has too many minefields between
what beginners learn and what they need to know. And JavaScript is now increasingly used for serious software engineering projects –
straining to carry a load it was not designed for.
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Scrum methodology from Soul’ on Vimeo.

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This movie was realized during a project using the scrum methodology. This was a great experience during 6 months: an experience sharing, exchange, a little bit stress but lots of good humor and with finally 2 Web Portals.
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