There’s an article on TechCrunch about Yahoo offering support for a number of microformat standards.
They are saying that they will support a number of microformats at the start: hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN. They will support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others. They will support RDFa and eRDF [...]

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Latest podcast episode up.  I cover feedback from the last episode (thanks on the questions answered everyone!).  A few news tidbits cropped up – Perl on Rails, Seaside was brought to my attention, I point over to Paul Spoerry’s blog to a great list of resources for web developers, and I wrap up with a [...]

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Whew!  The last several months have brought a flurry of web tech activity, the likes of which I haven’t seen in years.
Apollo/Silverlight/JavaFX all are aiming at reinventing in-browser development.
Yahoo Pipes, Ning, Coghead and some other platforms are giving us new ways to think about web-based development.
The YUI/Dojo/Scriptaculous/Atlas/jQuery/GWT AJAX toolkits – what can I say?  They [...]

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Is there a way to have web apps built with Visual Studio automatically use the YUI javascript toolkit controls instead of or in addition to MS tools?  If not, perhaps MS would be kind enough to offer that option in a future version, or perhaps even bundle them directly.  Given than the YUI controls are [...]

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Yahoo! has recently opened up their ‘pipes‘ application, which is a web-based app to visually manipulate XML feeds. Techcrunch has more on this, plus screen shots. The system seems down right now, so I can’t play with it, but it looks to be very interesting. This has the potential to open up [...]

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Yahoo! has recently opened up their ‘pipes‘ application, which is a web-based app to visually manipulate XML feeds. Techcrunch has more on this, plus screen shots. The system seems down right now, so I can’t play with it, but it looks to be very interesting. This has the potential to open up [...]

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I’ve been a fan of a lot of the Yahoo developments over the past few months – specifically all the openness which has characterized their Yahoo Developer center, the Yahoo UI toolkit, and things of that nature.  I’m looking to build a service which requires an embedded, scrollable map.  As much as I like Yahoo, [...]

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