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Yahoo has already been working on Yahoo Mail Platform to allow 3rd-party developers to write applications enhance Yahoo Mail experience.

Xobni has been enhancing the Outlook experience. I don't know what's the reason of MS not buying Xobni. But Xobni has everything that Outlook and email services ought to have.

Today, Google rolled out new Gmail Lab features to allow preview of youtube, flickr, picasa, Yelp contents whenever they detect relevant links in your emails.

Tags: application api platform email gmail yahoo_mail xobni

I am a big fan of Yahoo! Search BOSS API as it empowers users to leverage Yahoo's search's crawler and indexes to develop applications without spending a huge amount of money on infrastructure/bandwidth! Google, do you know what I mean?

As an observer on the active Yahoo! Search BOSS API mailing list, I document the Yahoo BOSS API's limitations which I over-hear on the mailing list:

• API fees and Monetization
  • Yahoo is going to charge fees on API usages beyond a certain limit.

Tags: api search yahoo_boss_api

There have been lots of articles/blogs written on Web 2.0.

Here is my take on it: Web 2.0 comes with richer, more responsive user experience. But behind the theme, it really drives the semantic web adoption although people may not have realized that. When you have a web application that updates part of its view (a web page) instead of reloading the whole page or directing to a brand new page, the web application mostly gets the DATA(not the view) from a server and updates the view with the new data. A crucial feature of any web 2.0 application is that it opens a API for getting the application data. Like it or not, the API is public because it's exposed through HTTP regardless whether developers behind it indent to have it as a pubic API. People can easily use some tools to analyze HTTP requests to reverse-engineering the API.

Tags: web2.0 semanticweb api mashup