Hopin’ for Open
| Monday, December 29th, 2008 | --Sean |
Hopefully all of you have had wonderful Christmas or other holiday breaks! *looks for recent blog updates* I apparently did.
The obvious follow-up to the festive season is New Year's Resolutions, and here at Yahoo!, we've been pledging to be more open. My Yahoo! is getting a head start with their introduction of Open Apps, which are basically just like Facebook applications, if you want a very high-level summary. In addition to adding some outside flair to your collection of My Yahoo! modules, Open Apps also can gain access to the nascent social network being formed through our Profile pages and share custom information between you and your connections. External developers have already chipped in such scintillating modules as a calorie counter and an Office trivia game, and the application pool can only get better from here. One would hope, at least, and isn't that what the New Year is all about?