Yahoo Hack, Tips and Tools for Living on the Web Frontier

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In the music world, a mash-up combines two or more existing songs into something entirely new. A mash-up might have a song from the Beatles in the background and vocals from Snoop Dogg in the foreground, while blending in a Sesame Street song at the same time. The Yahoo! Image Search web service offers programmatic access to thousands of images, and some developers are using this service to create their own visual mash-ups— combining disparate images into games, interesting visualizations, or random works of art. Here are a few interactive examples that will give you a taste of what’s being mashed together with the Yahoo! Image Search API.

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The Yahoo! Buzz Demo is an alternative way to read the news. When you browse to http://buzz.progphp.com, you’ll find an oval-shaped collage made up of over 100 different images, each representing a current top news story. As you move your pointer over each image in the collage, the image pops to the foreground so that you can see it clearly, and a summary of the news story the image represents is displayed in the middle of the page, as shown in Figure 5-18.
Clicking an image takes you directly to that image’s original location on the Web, and clicking the center news story takes you to the full story at Yahoo! News. In addition to top stories, you can browse images based on other news categories, or use your own term. Rasmus Lerdorf, a Yahoo! employee, built the Yahoo! Buzz Demo to show what’s possible with the Yahoo! Image Search web service. The demo uses PHP to pull in news stories from Yahoo! News RSS and the Yahoo! News API, images from around the Web via the Yahoo! Image API, and some crafty CSS to pull everything together. While it won’t replace the front page of the paper anytime soon, the Buzz Demo is a fun way to find stories. If you’d like to take a look behind the scenes, you can view the complete source code at http://buzz.progphp.com/buzz.phps.
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