Overview
Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites. But ten years later, it has expanded into a department store overflowing with useful and innovative tools and services-from email, blogging, social networking, and instant messaging, to news, financial markets, shopping, movie and TV listings, and much more. Today's Yahoo! keeps you connected with every aspect of your life and every corner of the Web.
Yahoo! Hacks shows you how to use, expand, personalize, and tweak Yahoo! in ways you never dreamed possible. You'll learn how to:
- Fine-tune search queries with keyword shortcuts and advanced syntax
- Manage and customize Yahoo! Mail, using it as your universal email client to access all your other accounts
- Explore your social networks with Yahoo! 360, blogging your life, keeping up with friends, and making new contacts
- Store, sort, blog, feed, track, and otherwise share photos with Flickr and RSS
- Make My Yahoo! your Yahoo!, and personalize Yahoo!'s many properties
- Roll your own Yahoo! applications with Yahoo! new Web Services API and Perl, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, or the programming language of your choice
- Visualize search results and topics, mash up images from around the Web, and remix other web content
- List (or hide) your site with Yahoo!, and integrate Yahoo! Groups, Messenger, contextual search (Y!Q), or other Yahoo! features
Whether you want to become a power searcher, news monger, super shopper, or innovative web developer, Yahoo! Hacks provides the tools to take you further than you ever thought possible.
Synopsis
Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites. But ten years later, it has expanded into a department store overflowing with useful and innovative tools and services-from email, blogging, social networking, and instant messaging, to news, financial markets, shopping, movie and TV listings, and much more. Today's Yahoo! keeps you connected with every aspect of your life and every corner of the Web.
"Yahoo! Hacks" shows you how to use, expand, personalize, and tweak Yahoo! in ways you never dreamed possible. You'll learn how to:
Fine-tune search queries with keyword shortcuts and advanced syntax
Manage and customize Yahoo! Mail, using it as your universal email client to access all your other accounts
Explore your social networks with Yahoo! 360, blogging your life, keeping up with friends, and making new contacts
Store, sort, blog, feed, track, and otherwise share photos with Flickr and RSS
Make My Yahoo! your Yahoo!, and personalize Yahoo!'s many properties
Roll your own Yahoo! applications with Yahoo! new Web Services API and Perl, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, or the programming language of your choice
Visualize search results and topics, mash up images from around the Web, and remix other web content
List (or hide) your site with Yahoo!, and integrate Yahoo! Groups, Messenger, contextual search (Y!Q), or other Yahoo! features
Whether you want to become a power searcher, news monger, super shopper, or innovative web developer, "Yahoo! Hacks" provides the tools to take you further than you ever thought possible.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhat can’t you do with Yahoo!? Not much. For the proof, check out Yahoo! Hacks.
You may know Yahoo! can track your investments. Did you know you can download Yahoo!’s stock data straight into Excel? For that matter, did you know Yahoo! will tell you everything that’s on your TV next Tuesday night, whether you’ve got cable, satellite, or rabbit ears?
You know you should get your Yahoo! Mail addresses into your Address Book. Do you know how to automate that? Or that Yahoo! lets you export bookmarks to HTML, so you can share your favorite sites on your blog? Or that Yahoo! has a “creative commons” search for images you can reuse without getting sued? Or that you can program Yahoo! with everything from PHP to REBOL? There’s a lot you didn’t know about Yahoo! -- stuff you’ll have a blast discovering. Bill Camarda, from the December 2005 Read Only