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The Y!Philippines Developers’ Night Recap and an invite to Y!HQ in Sunnyvale

August 21, 2008 · Comments 

Jojo gets feedback from the Developer Community by Jem Seow The Yahoo! Philippines Developers’ Night was held last Wednesday, August 14, in TGI Friday’s in Glorietta 3, where Yahoo! gave an overview of the Yahoo! Developer Network and discussed the future of the web development scene in the Philippines with the developers who attended the networking session. There was food, drinks, swag, and a healthy flow of techie conversations.

Angela Sabas sharing with RP developers on the the Yahoo! Developer Network by Jem Seow As the one giving the YDN overview, I was worried about possible low turnout due to the heavy rains prior and during the early part of the event–but in the end, the place was packed! I met many local developers, shared Yahoo! details and trivia, and learned from them as well. Jojo Anonuevo, our General Manager for Yahoo! Philippines, also gave an overview and is inviting Pinoy developers to apply for a chance to go to the Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, California and represent the community. Give it a shot–applications are due 5:00PM on August 22.

Dave Ko, Christine Amarra from BlueBlade (winner of the night's Ipod Shuffle raffle), Jojo Anonuevo, Jason Coates by Charley Braga Congratulations to Christine Amarra who won the lucky draw and took home the purple (but of course!) iPod, and thank you to all those who came to our event, and extra thanks go to those who blogged about it–Joe “phpcurious” Siao, Bob Reyes, PHP.ph and the people over at PinoyWebStartup.

Sa uulitin! :)

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Written by Angela Sabas · Angela, a web enthusiast and seasonal writer, has been into websites since 1998, when she was first introduced to the Internet. She prefers to be known as a hobbyist, because even though she works in the industry as a frontend engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, she dabbles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP as a hobby. She runs a tech blog and scripts archive with her linkware scripts, a writing/reading blog where she blogs about books and creative writing, a fan domain, and various other odds and ends.

A Developer’s Evening with Yahoo! Philippines

August 8, 2008 · Comments 

Yahoo! Philippines is inviting Philippine-based web developers to a Networking Event where you can meet fellow developers. The company will also share details about future web developer activities in the country and the Yahoo! Developer Network, which offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups that integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and fun place for everyone.

Yahoo! Philippines first held a developer meeting in October 2007 in conjunction with the University of Philippines-Yahoo! Hack Day. At the event, UP students demonstrated how simple it was to use Yahoo!’s open APIs to create web utilities that are relevant to their internet experience.

The event details are:

Venue: TGI Fridays (3F Glorietta 3, Ayala Center, Makati City)
Date: 14 August 2008
Time: 6-9 pm

Expect food, drinks and a steady flow of Yahoo! goodies. The raffle of an ipod and other Yahoo! schwags will be announced at 8.45pm.

The event is free, but please RSVP your attendance to sea-ydn@yahoo-inc.com with your details and subject header “YDN PH Event”. Closing date for RSVPs is 12 August 2008.

Disclaimer: I work for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, and I’m posting the invite on behalf of Yahoo!, but I wholeheartedly invite you to come join us on Thursday night! It will be a great time to meet others and talk shop. :) ‘Hope to see you there!

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Written by Angela Sabas · Angela, a web enthusiast and seasonal writer, has been into websites since 1998, when she was first introduced to the Internet. She prefers to be known as a hobbyist, because even though she works in the industry as a frontend engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, she dabbles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP as a hobby. She runs a tech blog and scripts archive with her linkware scripts, a writing/reading blog where she blogs about books and creative writing, a fan domain, and various other odds and ends.

Delicious, MyBlogLog get redesigned

August 1, 2008 · Comments 

Delicious and MyBlogLog have something more in common than being Web 2.0 services and being under the Yahoo! flagship: they both launched a redesign of their websites within the same week. Both keep to the original look and feel, but adding several enhancements and user experience improvements.

MyBlogLog redesigned last July 28, adding “shiny shadows and rounded edges”, but also improving on the user interface, like on the user’s profile page, they “have moved the most recent visitors module, up on top, not down below the fold” so that users can see who’s been visiting their profile quickly.

Now, Delicious 2.0 was launched on July 31, a long-awaited release, which includes a lot of changes, such as the move to delicious.com (due to “a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years”), new infrastructure to make the website faster, a search engine overhaul, and user interface improvements like “selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks”.

Previously, I haven’t used either service for long or with any regularity, owing to my general perception about their clunkiness (not a good scientific basis, I know). But with their redesigns, I’m reevaluating my stance and might even stick around. Visit their respective blog posts (linked above) and let them know what you think in the comments!

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Written by Angela Sabas · Angela, a web enthusiast and seasonal writer, has been into websites since 1998, when she was first introduced to the Internet. She prefers to be known as a hobbyist, because even though she works in the industry as a frontend engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, she dabbles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP as a hobby. She runs a tech blog and scripts archive with her linkware scripts, a writing/reading blog where she blogs about books and creative writing, a fan domain, and various other odds and ends.

The Survey for People Who Make Websites

July 30, 2008 · Comments 

Last year, A List Apart released a web design survey, focusing on finding out common job titles, salaries, and work situations in the web industry. Yesterday, they launched another survey, targeting people who make websites explicitly. They include in this category “all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, [and] marketers,” and I suppose anyone else who is in on creating websites, be it the backend, frontend, or content portion of it.

This year’s survey aims to correct mistakes in the one made last year:

This year’s survey corrects many of last year’s mistakes, with more detailed and numerous questions for freelance contractors and owners of (or partners in) small web businesses. There are also better international categories, and many other improvements recommended by those who took the survey last year.

Have you taken it already?

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Written by Angela Sabas · Angela, a web enthusiast and seasonal writer, has been into websites since 1998, when she was first introduced to the Internet. She prefers to be known as a hobbyist, because even though she works in the industry as a frontend engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, she dabbles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP as a hobby. She runs a tech blog and scripts archive with her linkware scripts, a writing/reading blog where she blogs about books and creative writing, a fan domain, and various other odds and ends.

Yahoo! debuts Search BOSS

July 13, 2008 · Comments 

Yahoo! Search BossLast July 9, Yahoo! debuted the Search BOSS, which stands for Build Your Own Search Service. It builds on the existing Yahoo! Search API, giving you more flexibility with results returned from Yahoo!: no more result limits, no restrictions on presentation (you don’t even have to say you’re using BOSS), and you can manipulate results by reordering them or inserting your own results. A monetization platform will also come in the near future.

When I first heard about this internally, I was excited–the possibilities in my head were enormous: if you have a fabulous idea for presentation, and/or a great algorithm, but you couldn’t crawl the web extensively enough, you can harness Yahoo!’s search index and feed that into your current index. Instant win! I’m psyched I can finally talk about this now, although I probably wouldn’t be the best person to discuss its intricacies.

A few have already implemented Yahoo! Search BOSS, so if you’re looking for what’s out there, drop by hakia (a semantic search engine), Me.dium Search (crowd-powered social search), Daylife and Cluuz.

For more information, there’s Yodel Anecdotal’s launch post, Yahoo! Search Blog’s launch post, an insider’s view on Search BOSS, and of course one should check out Yahoo! Developer Network’s section on Yahoo! Search BOSS.

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Written by Angela Sabas · Angela, a web enthusiast and seasonal writer, has been into websites since 1998, when she was first introduced to the Internet. She prefers to be known as a hobbyist, because even though she works in the industry as a frontend engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, she dabbles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP as a hobby. She runs a tech blog and scripts archive with her linkware scripts, a writing/reading blog where she blogs about books and creative writing, a fan domain, and various other odds and ends.