I spent the whole afternoon in jury duty, coming home to learn about the new Yahoo! User Interface blog which coincides with the public launch of the Yahoo! UI Library and Design Patterns. It looks like all this stuff launched yesterday (Monday, February 13). Here’s the scoop from the new UI blog: This blog is the companion blog for two libraries we’re proudly releasing today. The new Yahoo! Design Pattern Library offers our thinking on common interface design issues for traditional and rich Internet applications. The new Yahoo! User Interface Library is a collection of industrial-grade JavaScript utilities and widgets…
I recently discovered the Aardvark Firefox extension and have found it quite helpful for printing web sites that don’t already offer “printer friendly” versions. Aardvark lets you remove page elements like navigation bars or ads. Whether you’re printing out a longer article or just trying to read something online, this is really a helpful tool. To demonstrate this extension, I’ve made my first screencast with Camtasia Studio. I’m still trying to figure out the best combination of image/sound quality versus file size. I’ve published a couple different combinations to try: Aardvark Firefox Extension Screencast, Flash format (20 MB) Aardvark Firefox…
I recently discovered Toni Schneider’s blog and found a cool entry from November when the Yahoo Maps beta and new API were released: In honor of tonight’s Yahoo Maps beta and Yahoo Maps API releases, I made a little maps mashup. Sometimes when people visit Silicon Valley, they wonder where it actually is. Check out The Center of Silicon Valley to find out where it is!
Tonight I attended this month’s SDForum Search SIG meeting titled “Search Different: Tagging, Social Bookmarking and Sharing”: The session will focus on “alternate” search mechanisms that have been developed over the past 12 months such as bookmarking, tagging, rating, sharing and any combination thereof – generally in a social context. These concepts have grown to being at the core of many Web 2.0 companies, and offer a different way of finding or discovering “stuff” online – as a complement or alternative to traditional search engines. Panel Discussion Charlene Li from Forrester Research moderated a panel of company reps including: Joshua…
The Yahoo! Music team recently started the Y! Music Blog (YMB?). Ian Rogers kicked it off with an introduction to the blog’s purpose: The main purpose of this site is to decrease the distance between you, the Yahoo! Music user, and the people whose job all day (and often all night) is to build Yahoo! Music products and utilities. I thought it only appropriate to kick off this site with a helpful list of ways you may contact us, for your reference. Some responses have questioned whether this is “official Yahoo” or not, but I don’t think the distinction matters…