44 posts tagged “yahoo”

The latest flickr / googlemaps / yahoomaps geomap geotag mapping craze seems to be GeoShapes and GeoShaping. Which is basically giving a shape to a locality !

See Flickr

• http://where-what-when.husk.org/ powered by http://appjet.com/
  
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/01/12/living-in-the-donut-hole/
  
• http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.places.findByLatLon.htm
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3034389047/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/scraplab/3035624594/

• http://www.hackdiary.com/2008/11/16/google-map-of-london-with-flickr-shape-data-overlaid/
• http://gist.github.com/25502

• http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/
• http://www.ygeoblog.com/blog/2008/11/21/yahoo-geoplanet-and-yql/
• http://upcoming.yahoo.com/services/api/metro.getForLatLon.php

flickr gets tough with corporates !

Note: As stated in our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, Flickr is intended for personal use only. This includes groups. Any commercial use must be pre-approved by Flickr at its sole discretion. If you'd like to create a group for your company or to run a contest, please contact Flickr first. If you don't, Flickr may terminate your group without warning.

Yahoo! SEO:

• https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/new/mysites
  

Yahoo Site Search APIs:

• http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/
• http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart = CAPTCHA

http://www.captcha.net/

The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University. At the time, they developed the first CAPTCHA to be used by Yahoo.

Carnegie Mellon University claim to have a CAPTCHA plugin for wordpress but is it open source ? If not why not ? and if so where can i get the source code (instead of just an API key) from ? Finally I completely disagree with their "win-win" scenario. In my view if AI cracks the code then it becomes useless !

Here are some other Turing Test variants that already seem useless (in their present form) to me :

• http://www.gwap.com/gwap/
• http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Fill in the gaps in your flickr, del.icio.us, pownce, last.fm social media network mesh by just logging in to your MyBlogLog and goto your MyBlogLog Connector page http://www.mybloglog.com/user/connector

I've finally twigged how to use MyBlogLog ! Yahoo have done it again by buying the best Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 social media network aggregator I've seen yet !

1. Join MyBlogBlog
2. Add your blogs / sites / invisible wikki's etc, etc
   
3. Add the MyBlogBlog JavaScript to your blogs / sites
4. Authenticate your sites (by adding (& deleting !) a post or META tag)
   
5. Add your Social Media Networks and Business Media Networks (they integrate with almost all of them such as del.icio.us, upcoming, last.fm,  flickr, youtube, pownce,  jaiku, etc, etc)
   
6. Create a network of like minded social media networkers just like you would do on del.icio.us, flickr, last.fm or VOX
   
7. Enjoy a single portal to all your co - social media networkers blogs, posts, pownces, twits, etc, etc !
   
8. Finally send a feature request to MyBlogBlog asking them for VOX integration / support !
   

PS Please excuse all the excessive etc, etc's

http://arc.help.yahoo.com/arc/arc.php now gives you anti-bot verification options for Text or Audio codes

Text code

If you are having trouble seeing this image, that's normal! The text is intentionally distorted to help fight automated spam programs. If no image appears, please make sure your browser is set to display images and try again.

If you are not sure what the code is, make your best guess. If you guess incorrectly, you can try a different code on the next screen after you submit the form. Codes may contain a mixture of letters and numbers, and letters are not case sensitive.

Audio code

You can also try an audio code instead by clicking on "Play the audio code". Your cursor will automatically move to the text entry box, and you will hear a prompt followed by a series of numbers with background noise. Type the numbers you hear into the text box instead of the code in the image.

Create a dynamic flickriver badge (thats uses the Yahoo flickr API) to put on your profile, group, blog or website

or just use flickriver as a viewer for your favorite flickr profiles !

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/fsse-info

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/osde-info

Yahoo! MapMixer lets you mashup your maps with the Yahoo Maps API !

http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer

Thanks to http://ocifant.vox.com/library/post/tidying-my-photos.html I have just discovered the Yahoo! ZoneTag and Zurfer BETA mobile phone apps !

ZoneTag
ZoneTag can tag your photos with the location in which they were taken.
http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/index.php

Zurfer
Zurfer shows you photos taken around you, and exposes interesting 'local highlights'.
http://zurfer.research.yahoo.com/

If you have a Symbian S60 (V2 ?) series phone you may like to give them a try !