Thursday, July 24, 2008

Yahoo Hacks - Tips & Tools For Living On The Web Frontier (2


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



How This Book Is Organized

The book is divided into several chapters, organized by subject:

Chapter 1, Search

This chapter shows you how to become a Yahoo! power searcher by taking advantage of meta keywords to return more relevant results. You'll also see how to use search shortcuts to find instant answers to some common questions. This chapter tells you how to find popular search phrases and technologies by analyzing Yahoo! Buzz, and we'll pit Yahoo! against Google to see which search engine returns the most relevant results.

Chapter 2, Services

Yahoo! offers information about everything from stocks and bonds to movie and TV schedules. This chapter shows some unique ways to use Yahoo! Web Services, including monitoring your commute for problems, watching TV schedules automatically for appearances by your favorite celebrities, and visualizing your music collection.

Chapter 3, Communicating

Use the hacks in this chapter to reach out and touch someone. You'll find hacks for managing your Yahoo! Mail, collaborating with Yahoo! Groups, and exploring your social networks with Yahoo! 360. This chapter also shows some ways to personalize Yahoo! Messenger and share your photos with the world.

Chapter 4, Web Services

This chapter introduces you to the back door that Yahoo! has opened for developers. You'll find bare-bones examples in several scripting languages that can give you a head start to creating your own Yahoo!-powered applications.

Chapter 5, Applications

See how people are using Yahoo! data in their own applications and have a bit of fun in the process. Find out how to randomize your desktop background with images from across the Web and how to integrate Yahoo! with Excel and Outlook.

Chapter 6, Webmastering

If you publish on the Web, you're well aware of the traffic Yahoo! can send to your site. This chapter shows how to get listed and introduces you to other Yahoo! components you can plug into your site

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