Sunday, April 27, 2008

Best of this Week Summary 21 April - 27 April 2008

  • How Yahoo! is transforming itself into an open and social platform, allowing developers access to internal assets of Yahoo. A first example of this is SearchMonkey. Below a screenshot of their new architecture Yahoo Open Strategy.


  • Two initiatives that could improve the chances of OpenID becoming more mainstream: IDSelector (also mentioned here) and Confident's RecognitionAUTH, which you can see implemented at MyVidoop (mentioned in a previous post).

  • Amazon announced its Fulfillment Web Service API, which allows merchants to automatically store inventory in Amazon's warehouses and ship orders to customers. Again, Amazon is one of the frontrunners in this area...

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