Yahoo is going to make interfaces to Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Shopping available to independent developers. Through the APIs, independent developers can create applications that tag, organize, edit and upload information to the Yahoo services.


Yahoo is going to make interfaces to Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Shopping available to independent developers.

Through the APIs, independent developers can create applications that tag, organize, edit and upload information to the Yahoo services.

Yahoo Calendar will also be given an API in the next few months. The interface will allow clubs or organizations to move their calendar on Yahoo to the organization’s own website.

MyWeb 2.0 will also be given a similar API which would allow developers to create applications that can read from, and write to, MyWeb.

“The new APIs can invoke use of a browser-based technique for identifying users, which Yahoo sees as a long-term aid to encouraging E-commerce. Consumers will register at Yahoo and supply identification information, and independent Web sites may ask users for permission to confirm who they are by contacting the Yahoo authentication service.” [Source]