David Ehlers

This looks interesting…

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/04/introducing_the_1.html

Y!OS platforms will harness Yahoo!’s unique strengths – our rich and relevant user experiences (we’re #1 in 7 verticals), our massive audience (half a billion users/month), and our deep data repositories (content, content, content) – and open them to the innovations of the developer community. Our aim: to fundamentally transform how people experience Yahoo!.

With Y!OS, we’re moving from a model in which each Yahoo! property develops much of its own technology to one where we share common data and frameworks that can be easily surfaced across multiple Yahoo! properties and off the Yahoo.com network.

It’s a major rewiring of Yahoo!.

And the good news for developers is that Y!OS will allow you to access to these assets, build applications around them, and then get distribution on Yahoo!’s monumentally popular properties (and/or use them in your own websites).

includes: 

• A Single Social Platform for Yahoo!
• Lotsa Standardized Web Services
• The Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP)

Yahoo has released a pr1 of their revised YUI Library.

The YUI team is pleased to announce YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1. This preview is an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of YUI Library. Pleasereview the API, play with the examples, and read the documentation on this site for details; download YUI 3.0 PR1 on the YUI project area on SourceForge; you can find us with questions or comments on the YUI 3.x discussion group.

This YUI 3.x is part of the broader YUI Library project, which is a coherent collection of JavaScript and CSS resources that make it easier to build richly interactive applications in web browsers. They have been released as open source under aBSD license and are free for all uses.

Just added a new page of useful flash links: Flash Links & Reference

I’ve been in drupal world again, which happens to use the jQuery JS libraries. Simon Willison has some great resources and links here: Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery

The latest jQuery. jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.

Combine the Wii Controler and Flash by using the wiiFlash api this great work by Joa Ebert and Thibault Imbert

The WiiFlash project is divided into two parts:

• WiiFlash Server (C++ or .NET server that handles Wiimote communication)
• WiiFlash ActionScript API (SWC component)

Check it out:  http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/

http://code.google.com/appengine/

Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.

Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in the Adobe Flash Player. Flare applications can be built using the free Adobe Flex SDK or Adobe’s Flex Builder IDE. Flare is based on prefuse, a full-featured visualization toolkit written in Java. 

And view some other visualization api’s here - more links here at reddit

The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large.

Or, if that bores you, simply checkout their Visualization Gallery

Google will announce a new set of APIs that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Googls personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time. Check out the article Tech Crunch Article