Yahoo! 发布 Y!OS 1.0

Denis 2008年11月11日

Yahoo! 发布了 Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) 1.0，其中包括了 Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP)。Y!OS 是 Yahoo 一种新的开放方式，能够让开发者创建程序访问到 Yahoo 的网络数据。 Y!OS 还有两个平台：Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP)（Yahoo! 程序平台） 和 Yahoo! Social Platform (YSL)（Yahoo! 社交平台），这两种平台可以通过 Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)（Yahoo! 查询语言）来访问。


Yahoo! Open Strategy Diagram

Y!OS 的发布是 Yahoo! 走向开放的第一步。根据 Yahoo 官方博客的日志：We’re open. Have at it.，Yahoo 希望开放自己的网络能够给外界用于创新，开启你的社交关系，通过把 Mesh Yahoo! 网站和其他网站的数据，开给你一个最好的 Web 体验。

Yahoo 开发者博客也有一篇日志：Introducing Y!OS 1.0 - live today! 介绍 Y!OS 1.0 的技术细节。

Yahoo! Social Platform
The Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP) consists of a suite of REST-based social APIs from Yahoo! including: Profiles, Connections, Updates, Contacts and Status. These services will make it possible for you to write social applications either on Yahoo! using the Application Platform or on your own website. We are releasing a PHP SDK to help you access these web services. Because we make use of standard OAuth and REST (both XML and JSON), standard libraries can also be used.

Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)
YQL is a new web service API that lets you access other web services using a SQL-like language rather than typical programmatic access. You can think of it as a command line version of Pipes. Its goal is to make data from Yahoo! as well as from across the internet universally accessible through a single common interface.

Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP)
YAP will soon become the mechanism for distributing your application to millions of users on Yahoo!’s homepages, media sites, and mail properties, some of the most trafficked sites on the Internet. The initial release supports a few programming models including:

- Developer hosted execution of applications with access to Yahoo’s Social APIs and YQL;
- Support for OpenSocial’s JavaScript API; and
- Support for server-side YML tags.

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那么微软是否真的会收购雅虎呢？