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.

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.

Some key attributes of a successful candidate will be:

• Extensive experience with PHP (PHP5 and framework experience strongly preferred. i.e. CakePHP, Zend, Symfony, CodeIgniter)
• Cross browser compatibility, Search Engine Optimization, regular user of Web Services, XML/XSLT and REST/SOAP style interfaces
• Experience using caching layer such as SQUID and Memcached
• Strong presentation layer experience (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks)
• Fluency with the LAMP stack
• Prior experience with or knowledge of large scale, high volume systems
• At least five years software development experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• A familiarity with a wide variety of software development methodologies, tools, languages and approaches

Some responsibilities of the position:

• Good clean fast code that thinks a few moves ahead
• A disciplined approach to design/architecture, development, documentation and maintainability
• Self-management in the code-test-debug cycle
• Co-ordination with other team members, partners and external stakeholders through documentation and discussion
• Contribute to the continual improvement of our development process

Bonus:

• Academic background in computer science (BSc or MSc)
• Expertise in Java, Perl, JavaScript, C or C++
• Expertise in networking, databases, mail handling, image processing, XUL or OS X development.
• Experience in both small start-up and large company environments

Email your resume to ymusic-jobs@yahoo-inc.com.Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.

Extracts taken from Yahoo! Music

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

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

]]> http://www.yahoofanclub.com/yahoo-lottery-what%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-this-picture-a-lot/feed/ http://www.yahoofanclub.com/nissan-live-sets-%e2%80%93-redesign-amongst-friends/ http://www.yahoofanclub.com/nissan-live-sets-%e2%80%93-redesign-amongst-friends/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:11:58 +0000 Y! FC Admin http://www.yahoofanclub.com/?p=12 Yesterday, we launched a redesign to one of our pillar live music programs, Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music. And, it is very fitting that we did so with one of the most memorable and ‘fan’-tastic musical experiences to have taken place on our stage. For those of you who haven’t seen this ‘Hootenanny,’ 300 courageous fans joined Weezer on stage and shared their musical talents. Yes, everyone is playing an instrument! See it here.

This Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music redesign focused on blowing out several key features of the program including:

1. Integrating a clean inline video experience. You can now watch the show inline, all from the same Nissan Live Sets page
2. Bigger/fuller photo galleries: the first time we’ve been able to integrate the high resolution, professionally taken photos of the cool artists we’ve had. No more tiny pictures!
3. A re-tooled blog that leverages Y! Music’s blog platform. This improvement more cleanly integrates the program with other y! music blogs and allows us to layer in related photos, videos and other popular galleries.

Source: Y! Music Blog

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After updating to Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta, you’ll notice a new “Activities” button in the IM window. We combined both Plug-ins and Games into the Activities area. Just click the button to bring up the menu of available items.

You’ll find the following games that you can play with your friend right in the IM window (as long as your friend is also on Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 or 9.0):

Backgammon
Checkers
Chess
Dominoes
Literati
Pearl Hunter
Pool
Toki Toki Boom
Word Racer

While you’re playing be sure not to forget to send a few “Game Audibles” that include funny animations for winning, losing and taunting. What fun is a game of checkers without some good trash talk?

Source: Y! Messenger Blog

But now, with a couple of features available in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta, you no longer have to sign off and drop off. You can have incoming IMs and voice calls forwarded to your mobile phone. Here’s how it works…

Above your Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 contact list you’ll notice two new buttons – an icon of a small mobile phone and a Yahoo! Voice button. Click on the mobile phone icon and select “Set Up Mobile Device”. A small window will appear where you can register your mobile phone with Yahoo! Messenger.

Once registered, you can turn on IM forwarding. After signing out of Yahoo! Messenger, you will still appear online to your friends but with an “I’m Mobile” status message. Friends can then IM you and the messages will be forwarded to your mobile phone as text messages (SMS). Reply to the SMS from your phone and your friend will receive it in Messenger. So even when you’re away from your computer, you can still receive and reply to IMs.

To enable IM forwarding whenever you sign out, select the “Always Sign in to [your mobile number]” from the mobile phone icon. If you prefer to enable it occasionally, go to the Messenger menu when you’re ready to sign out and choose “Sign in to [your mobile number]”.

The same kind of forwarding can be set up for voice calls. If you’re signed out and a friend tries to call you via PC-to-PC or on your Phone In number, the call can be immediately forwarded to another phone you have (mobile or landline). A Phone Out account is required. When calls are forwarded to you, they are subject to the standard per minute rates of our Phone Out service.

To enable call forwarding, click the “Yahoo! Voice” button above your contact list and select “Set Up Call Forwarding”. Indicate which number you want your incoming calls forwarded to and you’re done. Once you set up call forwarding, it will even forward calls when you are signed into Yahoo! Messenger. So if you prefer to receive calls in Messenger when you’re signed in, just return to the button and select “Call Forwarding > Disabled”.

Source : Yahoo Messenger Blog

We regret the past few weeks of regular slow processing and downtime. The main issue was the weakly designed CMS. CMS has been replaced with wordpress. We are currently working on the other security issues. YahooFanClub ReVamp process has been started. currently, YahooFanClub directory is down.

And hopefully we’ll hit the coast with a brand new design.

Till then Adiós.

-Y! FC Admin