Allen Tom at f8 This week, at the Open Standards panel at Facebook’s f8 developer conference, I had the opportunity to talk about OAuth, OpenID, and other open standards. I did this with Facebook’s David Recordon, Luke Shepard, and Naitik Shah, along with Twitter’s Raffi Krikorian. Yahoo! was a very early supporter of OAuth, and we’re...

Advertising a business is a vital component for every successful business. Today in Internet world success stories of popular businesses relies on advertising and marketing. Earlier, WWW was considered for information gathering and the marketing was to publish the content or text based ads. Now the scenarios is changing and people consider, WWW...

The upcoming C++ standard will have many new features, several major and many minor. The major features are concurrency, template concepts, move semantics, generalized constant expressions, automatic variable typing, and garbage collection. We will present an overview of the major features and breeze through a list of other features, commenting on their...

One of the key values at Facebook is to move fast. For the past six years, we have been able to accomplish a lot thanks to rapid pace of development that PHP offers. As a programming language, PHP is simple. Simple to learn, simple to write, simple to read, and simple to debug. We are able to get new engineers ramped up at Facebook a lot faster with...

People are always confused about the WEB 2.0, most people consider that it is a new technology – development platform, for developing the new generation websites. It is confusion in their mind, WEB 2.0 is only a concept discovered at a conference session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International in year 2004. It is a successor to traditional...

Julien Lecomte is an engineer on Yahoo!’s DHTML Evangelist team, a group that provides architectural assistance to Yahoo! developers on the design and implementation of rich interactions in the browser. Recently, Julien gave a talk on High Performance AJAX Applications, which you can view here: Source http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2007/12/high_performance_ajax_applications.html

Already getting a YSlow “A”? Looking for more ways to make your pages faster and improve Roundtrip scores? This talk is for you! The latest Exceptional Performance breakthroughs are making their Sunnyvale debut. We have not only updated the existing 14 rules, but also added 20 new recommendations to accelerate the end-user’s experience. Nicole...

Android is the first fully customizable mobile platform, It is open source, licenced under Apache 2.0, developed by Google and based on Linux 2.6.24 Kernel. Android offers complete software stack for mobile devices, bundled with an operating system, application framework and key applications. Linux Kernel The Android OS stack has key component, kernel....

For years, Yahoo! has consistently maintained one of the largest aggregated audiences on the planet across any form of media. As Yahoo! opens up, we are building many mechanisms to allow you — developers, publishers, and advertisers — to access that audience with innovative experiences in ways that integrate directly with our own consumer...

So, what exactly do we mean by a Cookie? (First things first, by cookie we do not mean a biscuit.) Cookies are a very very important method for maintaining state on the Web. “State” in this case refers to an application’s ability to work interactively with a user, remembering all data since the application started, and differentiating...