Sessions

SELECT * FROM Internet Using YQL

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Accepted Session
Chemistry
Short Form
osb2010-0379
Scheduled: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 from 2:30 – 3:15pm in Steel
Session notes

Excerpt

Treating the internet and all its sources as a database, YQL seeks to allow developers to explore government, social, api and all other external data in a standardized way. Further allowing developers to manipulate this data and mash different sources together, YQL works to open up the web and all its sources.

Description

The Yahoo! Query Language provides a rich and dynamic method for obtaining and manipulating data from any source or API on the internet – with YQL the internet becomes your database. Using the simplified SQL syntax that YQL is based in, YQL seeks to open all data on the web into a standardized format. Manipulating and mashing up sources as if they were tables, YQL becomes a repository for exploring government, event, social and API data on the web.

This talk will cover the core techniques within YQL, including server-side JavaScript with native E4X support for manipulating data, key / value pair data storage and the process of creating your own YQL tables for accessing web based content. Going further with the integration of the open authentication standards defined by OAuth, we’ll delve into advanced authentication techniques using this standard within YQL.

Tags

api, yql, social, queries

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Speaker

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    Jonathan LeBlanc

    Yahoo! Developer Network

    Biography

    Jonathan LeBlanc works with the partner integration group in the Yahoo! Developer Network as a senior software engineer / technology evangelist. Focusing on partner relationships and training, as well as external developer integration, Jonathan works with and promotes emerging technologies to aid in the adoption and utilization of new social development techniques. As a software engineer, Jonathan works extensively with social interaction development on the web, developing new methods for linking social networks to drive the ideal of an open web. Prior to Yahoo!, Jonathan worked within both the media production and fantasy product development teams at CBSSports.com, where he developed on products such as the Emmy award winning march madness on demand video player.

    Sessions

    • * SELECT * FROM Internet Using YQL
      • Title: SELECT * FROM Internet Using YQL
      • Track: Chemistry
      • Room: Steel
      • Time: 2:30 – 3:15pm
      • Excerpt:

        Treating the internet and all its sources as a database, YQL seeks to allow developers to explore government, social, api and all other external data in a standardized way. Further allowing developers to manipulate this data and mash different sources together, YQL works to open up the web and all its sources.

      • Speakers: Jonathan LeBlanc