2009-05-06T18:39:23+00:00 108 1089 A look at two Yahoo! technologies. BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) aims to incorporate a vertical search on proprietary content and an overall search ecosystem into its current search product. Leveraging off of the Yahoo! search technologies, BOSS allows developers to create truly unique search experiences and provide rich metrics for users. YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) allows users to leverage off of existing content and APIs on the internet to build rich table and data structures. Allowing users to wrap their own data into tables (Open Data Tables) and providing server-side JavaScript data manipulation (YQL Execute), YQL is the last API you will ever need. http://www.slideshare.net/jleblanc/barcamplabossyql-1374863 2009-05-06T18:39:23+00:00 2009-05-02T14:00:01+00:00 Jonathan LeBlanc works with the partner integration group in the Yahoo! Developer Network as a senior software engineer / technology evangelist. Focusing on partner relationships and training, as well as external developer integration, Jonathan works with and promotes emerging technologies to aid in the adoption and utilization of new social development techniques. As a software engineer, Jonathan works extensively with social interaction development on the web, developing new methods for linking social networks to drive the ideal of an open web. Prior to Yahoo!, Jonathan worked within both the media production and fantasy product development teams at CBSSports.com, where he developed on products such as the Emmy award winning march madness on demand video player. Born and raised in Canada, Jonathan graduated from Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology with a degree in computer science and currently lives in Dublin, CA with his wife. Yahoo! http://developer.yahoo.com 2648 Sunnyvale, CA Jonathan LeBlanc http://www.nakedtechnologist.com 4.72 /avatars/2648/thumb/3490041159_59b53be507.jpg 2009-05-06T18:38:59+00:00 Barcamp LA 2009-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 http://barcampla.org/ 108 Culver City, California 2009-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 2009-05-06T18:38:59+00:00