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Yahoo Inc. announced today at the CTIA trade show that it has expanded Blueprint, a mobile development platform, to allow developers to build applications for mobile devices running Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian operating systems.

Blueprint was previously available to create mobile widgets for Yahoo Go, a mobile application that first appeared two years ago.

Marco Boerries, executive vice president of Yahoo Connected Life, said Blueprint, which is available for free, allows a developer to write once and have an application run across many devices and operating systems to reach billions of users.

In a press conference, Boerries said Yahoo has generally followed a strategy of building “an ecosystem for billions of users … that’s why we didn’t build an OS.”

As such, Yahoo is expecting its services and advertising system to be available for all kinds of devices globally, he added.

Marc Davis, chief scientist at Yahoo Connected Life, said in an interview that Blueprint, which is based on XML, took five years to create. “Mobile applications have been laborious to build,” he said.

Beoerries said Yahoo developers have been using Blueprint internally to build iPhone applications. Yahoo is also in discussions with Apple Inc. on ways to make Blueprint for iPhone available to other developers, he said.

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So, you just sign in with your Yahoo ID and “buzz up” stories that causing them to move up in ranking. There’s not much more to explain. Stories that make it to the top of the list will be featured on the Yahoo homepage potentially driving serious traffic to the site.

You can submit stories or join the mailing list to find out when Yahoo will add new publishers to the network it pulls Buzz content from.
If you are bored with Digg then Yahoo! Buzz can be an all new experience. All you have to do it login through your Yahoo! ID.

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Yahoo! Music opens up its gates for everyone seeking for a job. Being one of the top music sites on the internet, Yahoo! Music has a stronghold on online music. you have the opportunity to be part of the team that builds the top Music site on the internet. Email your resume to ymusic-jobs@yahoo-inc.com.

We are building Music applications such as Music Video, Internet Radio, Music Blogs, Yahoo Media Player and several other exciting applications. We’re hiring for a few positions that go a little something like this:

• Build cutting edge applications and mashups to entertain millions of users
• Develop scalable applications that services up to thousands of requests per second
• Review wireframes, design treatments and business requirements.
• Participate in design and code reviews, documentation of design, implementation of methodologies to ensure high quality software
• Utilize software engineering best practices such as source control, unit testing and continuous integration

The roles are within our Media Applications Group, working on web applications that power music experiences both on and off the Yahoo! Music site.

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Yahoo! is hosting its second public Hack Day here on our Sunnyvale, CA campus from September 12-13, 2008.

Usually hack days are for Yahoo! employees only. But this event is a wide open, public hack day where people with a passion for Yahoo! products can come together to build and share their best ideas for extending, re-shaping and mashing together our products and features.

We’ve profiled a few Yahoo! Messenger hacks here on the blog, but if you’ve got one in mind and want to bring it to life, come to our Hack Day. You’ll be surrounded by other hackers working on the next great Yahoo! idea. Your hack idea doesn’t have to involve Yahoo! Messenger, but we sure would love it! To sign up for a Hack Day invitation, visit http://www.hackday.org.

Looking for inspiration? Check out the brief video for Hack Day below, or take a look at some of our past articles on Yahoo! Messenger ideas that have come out of our internal hack days.

More about Yahoo! Messenger hacks:

The World According to Shumbee
A Hack Day Full of Messenger Ideas
Discov’ring New Friends
Hacking Away at Yahoo! Messenger

Source: Y! Messenger Blog

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When it comes to spotting phishing emails I feel that it’s a really easy thing to do. But then I think about the number of messages I get from users asking about our “lottery” and I am reminded that not everyone has had the same degree of experience. Having worked at PayPal, eBay, and now Yahoo!, I have a bit of a PhD in phishing, and would like to spread some knowledge.

If you have been reading for a while you may remember way back in May when I offered up a breakdown of some recent Yahoo! Lottery and PayPal scams that were floating around. As you can imagine these scammers are persistent and new styles are always popping up. Below is a recent attempt at a lottery scam that I found particularly bad.

While phishing messages are known for their bad grammar and spelling, this one really sinks to new lows. I’ve marked up many of the mistakes in red, but I’m sure there are a lot more. Anyway, the first things you might notice are that “I D” and “PRICE” are misspellings (they are going for ID and prize). I guess that might slip by but then you can easily see that the “YAHOO INCORPORATED” email address is in fact from @walla.com.

Next we can proceed to the stuff that makes our brand folks all twitchy…the inconsistencies. There must be a dozen references to Yahoo! in this message, yet they never spell it the same way two times in a row. Some have the “!” at the end, others don’t. Some are ALL CAPS, others are not. In fact the whole message bounces back and forth between different font styles.

You’ve also got references to the All-New Yahoo Mail Beta (hasn’t been beta or for a year), and the Yahoo Male Classic (I guess it’s for guys only).

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Then of course we have perhaps the most insulting gesture from this scammer. He wants you to claim your Yahoo! “Price” by contacting him at a gmail address?!?!?!

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As you move further down the message there are of course more references to “Price” (instead of prize) with the requisite request for personal information.

All in all this message has all of the signs, including perhaps the biggest warning sign of all…if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

So if Yahoo!, PayPal, eBay, your bank, or pretty much any site asks you for a bunch of personal information in an email you need to remember a few things.

• Most major sites know better than to ask that of their customers.
• If a site is warning you that your account is going to be shut down you should try to contact the appropriate customer care team directly.
• When contacting the site to ask be sure to use your normal methods, not the links within a suspicious email.

I’m hopeful that by pointing out some of the errors in this message, they may become easier for everyone out there to spot.

Source: Yahoo! Mail Blog

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