Yahoo To Release New APIs

Yahoo on Tuesday said it would make four new Web service Application Program Interfaces available through the Yahoo Developer Network. The new APIs--Yahoo Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping--are part of a larger effort by Yahoo to court developers and more deeply root itself in Internet innovation.

Yahoo Shopping has rejiggered its APIs with a new browse navigation feature to help consumers narrow their product search with a menu of sub-categories and product attributes to refine search results. Also, Yahoo's new Calendar API is intended to help developers write applications that make it easier for users to access their calendar from other sites on the Web.

In a few months, Yahoo will put out a new Photos API so developers can build custom applications, encouraging them to create value-added features and products for Yahoo Photos' 34 million users worldwide. Additionally, in a month or so, a new MyWeb 2.0 API will be made available, designed to allow information to move more easily between MyWeb and other applications or devices.

Separately, Yahoo News' first correspondent, Kevin Sites, was chosen this week by the Los Angeles Press Club to receive the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Sites' current assignment is to spend one year covering every armed conflict in the world, shooting, writing, and editing his own stories for Yahoo's "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone."

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