Marcel Neuhausler's World

"The Yahoo! Mail Web Service is a big release for Yahoo! and the Internet, and it's only the beginning of what you'll be seeing from Yahoo!. Jump into our code samples for Java, .NET, PHP, Perl and Python, and build your dream mail app today, then be sure to give us feedback on your experience so we can continue to make the API even better. Be sure to leverage the online Yahoo! Mail Web Service support group where you can get help from the Yahoo! Mail Web Service team and your fellow developers. We can't wait to see what applications you will build when you add your imagination to the platform. Maybe you want to build an application that backs up Yahoo! mail targeted at a large number of Yahoo! users, or maybe you just want to add a niche feature that makes Yahoo! Mail better for your mom. For inspiration, we've gathered a few applications:

You can watch a short screencast here (or download the full video) with Ryan Kennedy as he explains more about the Yahoo! Mail Web Service in detail.

And Hack Day hacker Leah Culver demonstrates her Flickr Postcard hack which uses Yahoo! Mail Web Service too (full download here):

Chad Dickerson, Head of Yahoo! Developer Network"

(Via Yahoo! Web Services blog.)

.. interesting .. new-world access to old-world-mail-technology .. will be interesting to see what people will build with it ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 10:32 AM | Permalink

"Pasha Sadri and Ed Ho gave YDN a complete walk-through of Pipes. Ed first showed us how to create a Pipe and shared some examples of clever ways to use it. Pasha then explained some of the thinking behind Pipes and how it was conceived.

The demo is also available on Yahoo! Video here."

(Via Yahoo! Web Services blog.)

Posted by mneuhaus at 08:46 AM | Permalink

"Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with the strengths of desktop applications – application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences."

.. finally, they made an early alpha version available :-) .. lets play ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 10:31 AM | Permalink

"XULRunner is a Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It will provide mechanisms for installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these applications. XULRunner will also provide libxul, a solution which allows the embedding of Mozilla technologies in other projects and products."

.. I completely forgot about Mozilla XULRunner, a runtime environment for smart clients, until I heard that Joost seems to be based on it ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:25 PM | Permalink

"This tutorial discusses how to mount Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a file system in an Amazon EC2 instance. If you use the mounted file system to store your data, it is automatically saved to Amazon S3. This gives the Amazon EC2 instance the permanent storage it needs, and it does so transparently. Applications that use the mounted file system work in the usual way and see the mounted file system as though it were the local hard drive. Behind the scenes, however, all the data is stored on Amazon S3."

.. as always with EC2, good idea, but quite a few steps to get it up and running .. but the communication between EC2 and S3 is free :-) ..

Posted by mneuhaus at 09:19 PM | Permalink