YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) and YDN Overview 4.96 http://spkr8.com/t/1240

Description:

Providing an overview of the Yahoo! Developer Network core APIs and services for use within the Yahoo! Query Language. In this talk I go over the following technologies through web samples:


Flickr (using Retrievr to find photos based on drawings):

http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/?sketchName=2009-06-22-19-06-25-862999.46#sketchName=2009-07-01-20-59-35-491512.1


Placemaker (find geo locations from blobs of text):

http://icant.co.uk/jsplacemaker/


Maps (Not Just a Number Oakland Homicide site):

http://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/multimedia/iba/njn/#/map/


YQL Console Demonstration:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/


YQL Query to Obtain Map:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20maps.map%20where%20(latitude%2C%20longitude)%20IN%20(select%20centroid.latitude%2C%20centroid.longitude%20from%20geo.places%20where%20text%3D%22Columbia%2C%20SC%22)&env=http%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltables.env


YQL / YUI Coupling Widget (Using private data):

http://www.nakedtechnologist.com/php_widget_oauth/yql_php_widget.html

Comments on this Talk

Stream.25487 cdharrison, 01 Jul 10:48 PM

Excellent presentation by an excellent presenter. YQL blew my mind.

Stream.28554 gene, 02 Jul 03:06 PM

Jonathan's overview of YQL was too the point and informative. After listening to him I HAVE to figure out how to use YQL somehow in my next project...

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Time & Location

June 27, 2009 — 01:30 PM
Columbia, South Carolina (Map It)

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ConvergeSC (1 talk)

June 27, 2009