YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1

Posted August 15, 2008

The YUI development team has issued YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1, an early look at the next generation of the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). This developer preview provides a look at where the library is headed as we seek to pursue goals of size, performance, consistency, power, security, and openness.

You can read the introduction to the new release on YUIBlog and get a sense of the new syntactical style in this blog post, which reviews Dav Glass's Draggable Portable example - one of more than 60 examples that accompany the preview's extensive documentation.

Take your location to the web with Fire Eagle™

Posted August 12, 2008

Want to make it easy for your site to react to a user's location? Maybe you've found a way to capture someone's location and you want to find cool things to plug into. Fire Eagle makes it easy and practical for you to build location-aware services and applications.

Fire Eagle is an open platform that helps users take their location to the web, and safely share their info with sites, services, and people on the Internet while keeping full control over their data and privacy.

Start building Fire Eagle applications now!

Tune into the Yahoo! Music API

Posted August 1, 2008

The Yahoo! Music API provides open access to one of the most complete music video catalogues online. Developers and publishers can now browse Yahoo! Music's vast catalog of artists, albums, and high-quality videos through charts, search, videos, and more.

Captivate your users through the video playback and video stations included with the embedded player. Integrate the highest quality music video experience on the web into your site or application.

Learn more about the Yahoo! Music API.

Zimbra Beta 3 takes Y! Mail, Gmail offline

Posted July 29, 2008

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop is an AJAX web app for email, contacts, calendar, and documents that works offline. Use it with any POP/IMAP account on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers.

The latest release adds IMAP access to Yahoo! Mail. Zimbra Desktop works with both the Open Source and Network Editions of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite and lets you synchronize email, contacts, and calendar to the Zimbra Server (ZCS 4.5+ servers).

Check it out, it's free!