Today Yahoo! is making Y!OS a reality for developers through the release of the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) , Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP) and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL). Now, anyone on the web has access to Yahoo!’s tools and data to start building applications for Yahoo!’s vast audience and the web beyond....

This launch also marks Yahoo!’s first implementation of OpenSocial support. As a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, Yahoo! is committed to supporting the complete OpenSocial specification and is working with the community to expand the spec to include OSML and OpenSocial templates.

http://developer.yahoo.com/

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Brought to you by brian solis and jess3

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everything becomes together!

AppNexus cofounders Brian O'Kelley demonstrates us in a funny way, why its important to build and operate secure, redundant, and efficient datacenters...


Start Video

AppNexus is a next-generation cloud computing service. If you understand how Amazon's Web Services work, AppNexus is similar in concept.

http://appnexus.com

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With Breeze you can turn your idea into a rich mobile application (J2ME) - if you can create a website, using Breeze you can now create mobile applications.

Breeze is a simulator, which lets developers test their mobile application based on html and javascript for many handsets and mobile devices.


Cascada Mobile on Vimeo.

http://www.cascadamobile.com/
http://www.breezeapps.com

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All of the Google Data APIs support OAuth - an open standard for authentication

Last night the Google Data API blog announced that oAuth is now available for all Google Data APIs, everything from Gmail contacts to Google Calendar to Docs to YouTube. This means that 3rd party app developers now have one easy, standardized and secure way to authenticate that their users really own the Google accounts they say they do

oAuth
Google Data APIs

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Processing is a data visualization programming language, which John Resig has ported to JavaScript, using the Canvas element.... [demos here]

Obsessing is a "very alpha" service that allows you to edit and build Processing.js applications on the fly. Obsessing is all about bringing the Processing API/experience into the browser.

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Dipity takes automated timeline creation to a new level. If you have a Blogger, Flickr, WordPress, YouTube, Twitter or any of the other supported social networking site just enter in your user name, URL or an RSS feed and dipity will do the rest.

http://www.dipity.com/user/webmove/timeline/personal

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authorSTREAM is a powerful online presentation sharing engine that not only allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations online for free, but also assists you to share them with your friends, students or co-workers located across the globe

http://www.authorstream.com

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AOL is now offering developers who create applications using the Open AIM API the opportunity to make money

AIM Money is a new revenue-share platform that allows you to make money from ad views generated in your Open AIM application...There are no fees to participate, and monthly payments are issued only via PayPal.

For example, the TinyBuddy IM mashup applies AOL’s OpenAuth API along with WebAIM in an IM client that works on the iPhone and iTouch, as well as in standard browsers

http://dev.aol.com/aim/money

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The intents of annotation of webpages were to share knowledge information and to encourage a way of free speech on the internet...
please read also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

Most of these application offer browser plugin to share your annotations and bookmarks friendly.
These services use flash- or javascript-based application to grab and cache the ressource to modify and save it for you.




My Nominates are:

1. Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. check out the FireFox add-on and bookmarklet.

2. Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community, hot in there community today eg.: Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered

3. With fleck.com you can save all your interesting websites online in one place.

4. Mento (new!!) is for sharing links with friends: Smarter than email overload, more permanent than IM, and always just one click away...

5. ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web...

6. Write Stickis on any web page. Read what your crowd of friends and bloggers have written right there...

7. With Trailfire you find what you want on the web in an entirely new way. Follow trails of web pages and discover new ideas, Discover trails

8. kwout is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser.

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According to mir.aculo.us and of course

...thanks to Dion Almaer and Google, you can now use served-off-googles-infrastructure versions of your favourite JavaScript libraries, including Prototype and script.aculo.us.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

most popular JavaScript open source libraries are

• jQuery
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• dojo

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280 Slides (now available in public beta) is an online slideshow similiar to apple's desktop application Keynote

this online slideshow is powered by their own 'Cappuccino' JavaScript Framework, which implements the powerpoint format and claims a near 'desktop' experience in the web.

It includes all kinds of shape manipulation, as well as easy publishing on SlideShare, grabing color combos from Adobe Kuler, adding videos and photos from YouTube and Flickr...

url http://280slides.com/

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A Conversation About Google, Microsoft and Yahoo

Steve Ballmer's update

After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal...

Microsoft and Yahoo Love

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Microsoft wants to go 2.0 at a time of great turbulence and potential change in the web industry.

Live Mesh is more than two years in the making by Microsoft and is a combination that enables PCs and other devices to ‘come alive’ by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling individuals and organizations to manage, access, and share their files and applications seamlessly on the Web and across their world of devices, if their are using windows.

Live Mesh is open to developers (not just .Net/Silverligth). It’s going to be cross-platform and cross-browser...

It will bebased on standard protocols and feeds — HTTP, RSS, REST, ATOM, JSON and FeedSync.... [read more from Mary Jo Foley]

Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era
Live Mesh Wait List Page

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According to James McGill

Street View in the API gives developers the power and control they need to embed this functionality in their own websites in whatever way they wish. The API allows you to embed one or multiple panoramas in any location on a site and move, remove, hide and unhide them as necessary.

» View Inline Demo

one feature is the ability to control the embedded viewer using Javascript functions on the GStreetviewPanorama object. The panTo function changes the current point of view by performing a smooth animation between the current and target view.

Google Streetview documentation, reference, demos

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If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.

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Applications don’t create the benefits your company needs, people do.

These services can help you to work quickly and successfully online

1. Image Processing Tools
FotoFlexer - advanced online photo editor
Picnik - another online photo editor
Pixenate and ...
Picasion - create quick gif animations





2. Office: Email, Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, Wiki, Wordprocessing, PDF & Spreadsheet calculation
Gmail - Google Mail Service
Meebo IM - Online IM Service
Xobni - Email organization for your Outlook
Google Docs - Word, Excel, OpenOffice, PDF...
EditGrid - online spreadsheet
Zoho Sheet - alternative to editgrid and google docs
Google Calendar collaboration and exchange alternative
PDF Hammer - free Web Based PDF Editor
Deyey - Business Cards Designer
Zoho Meeting - web conferencing application powered by zoho.com
Peanut Butter Wiki - Free wiki for Business, Education and Personal
Wikia - Wiki Hubs


3. Plain Text Tools
EditPad - to edit plain text
Remember The Milk - manage your tasks


4. Easy Storage and Sharing Files
Drop.io - Simple Private Exchange
file.io - Share files with your friends
PipeBytes - could start downloading file as you upload it
SendUIt.com
YouSendIt.com
TinyLoad
Wikisend

YouConvertIt - Media Converter


5. Filtering RSS / XML Feed Aggregation & Mashup Builder
Microsoft Popfly Mashup Creator
Dapper - The Data Mapper
Yahoo Pipes - aggregate, manipulate content





6. Application Builder & Database Technologies
Coghead - Online Application Building
SiteKreator - online building web sites
Elastra - Database technology on-demand computing cloud
Zoho Creator - Create Database Applications




Most of these services are able to aggregate, share, public and integrate in other services/ webpages via their apis etc...

Feel free to complement the spring collection :)!
icons via http://www.iconaholic.com and http://www.iconfinder.net/

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