Building a Complete Web Searching Class with Yahoo Web Services and PHP 5

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Welcome to the final part of the series Using Yahoo Web Services with PHP 5. As the title claims this series walks you through the basic concepts surrounding the correct utilization of the most relevant web search services provided by Yahoo and puts the corresponding ...

Using Yahoo Web Services to Perform Searches with an Object-Oriented Approach

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

If you re a PHP developer who wants to take the first steps toward building web applications that interact with specific web services in this article series you ll find an approachable guide to implementing some of the most useful search services provided by Yahoo by using a ...

Defining Some Custom PHP Functions with Yahoo Web Services

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Welcome to the fourth installment of the series Using Yahoo Web Services with PHP 5. Made up of six approachable tutorials this series provides you with the right pointers to start using these useful web services within the context of your PHP 5-driven applications. It complements ...

Implementing Yahoo Image Search Web Service with PHP 5

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Welcome to the third installment of the series Using Yahoo Web Services with PHP 5. If you re a PHP programmer who wants to learn how to incorporate the useful web services offered by Yahoo then this series of articles might be what you re looking ...

Fetching Search Results as Serialized Arrays with Yahoo Web Services and PHP 5

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

In this second article of the series dealing with the implementation of some of the most useful web services offered by Yahoo with PHP 5 I ll show you how to parse the results returned by a determined web search service using a few array PHP processing functions.... Microsoft ...

Using Yahoo! Web Services with PHP 5

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

In the last few years the utilization of different web services has become very popular with web developers. This growing trend owes a lot to the development of so-called mashup applications where many of these web services are put to work seamlessly in conjunction generally using a ...

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for December 2nd, 2007

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. Share This Can't see the video? Click here

Open Web Awards: Nominations Now Being Accepted in All 13 Categories

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Over the last few days, we have rolled out posts for each of the different 13 categories in the Open Web Awards. Additionally, many of our 30 partner blogs have made their own postings for specific categories, which you can find in the list below. A couple quick points to ...

Christmas Wish List: 12 Things We Want Fixed on the Web

Friday, November 30th, 2007

We here at Mashable have been going back and forth on the things we’d like to see for Christmas this year, in terms of what the Web and social media can do for us. After we marked world peace and 10,000 shares of Google stock off, we came up with ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Mobile Applications

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Digg founder Kevin Rose recently called mobile applications the next big thing. With Google making application development easier with Android and hundreds of apps already optimized to run on the iPhone, the time might finally be here for mobile applications to cross over to the mainstream. From the ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Last but not least, a category for niche and miscellaneous social networks – companies that don’t fit neatly into the 12 categories for which we’ve already opened up nominations. Ironically, there are probably more web sites in this category than all of the others combined. This year, we’ve ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Music

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

It has been a big year for music sites. Among the highlights, CBS purchased Last.fm for $280 million, iLike came out of nowhere with a strong Facebook application to become a multi-million user site, and imeem signed deals with most of the major labels to stream music for free. ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Shopping

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Social shopping is a niche that many companies are targeting for an obvious reason: there is lots of money to be made. Nonetheless, there is no clear #1 in the space, with the most notable deal this year being Heart’s $40 million acquisition of Kaboodle. Meanwhile, we reviewed ...

The Pirate Bay Goes Web 2.0

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Those Pirate Bay folks are really cool, open minded, and ready to embrace new technologies. Some might argue that they’re also dirty, rotten pirates, but we won’t let some minor copyright issues stand in the way of progress, right? Anyway, The Pirate Bay has a new feature: click on an audio ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Start Pages

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

How many different options do we need for our start page on the Web? Apparently, a lot of them, as dozens of companies have launched varying ways to begin our browsing experience (see our side-by-side comparison of 14 different options). Netvibes even launched a white label version of ...

Working With PL/SQL CodeOpen Web Awards: Nominations for Places and Events

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

One problem the Internet has done a wonderful job of solving is organizing events. Sending invites, keeping track of who’s going, and making sure people bring stuff has been made easier by many orders of magnitude thanks to a host of services. Evite was the early winner in ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Photo Sharing

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Photo sharing – one of the biggest and most successful areas of Web 2.0, and likely to be a hotly contested area of the Open Web Awards. Flickr recently passed the 2 billion upload mark, while earlier in the year we saw Photobucket acquired by Fox Interactive for more ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Video Sharing

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Online video has been one of the major stories of 2007, with dozens of companies receiving massive amounts of funding from investors. YouTube has maintained its #1 position since being acquired by Google late last year, but up-and-comers like Metacafe, Daily Motion, and Blip.tv are hot on their heels. ...

Completing the Syntactic Comparison of Java and C/C++Open Web Awards: Nominations for Sports and Fitness

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Do we really need social networks for sports? Lots of companies seem to think so – enough to make it a category in the Open Web Awards. The space saw a big deal early this year – Sports Illustrated purchased Fan Nation for a rumored $20+ million in ...

Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for November 27th, 2007

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. Share This Can't see the video? Click here

Kevin Rose: Mobile Web Is The Next Big Thing

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Hey, why doesn’t Pownce have SMS support, then? Heh, just kidding. He’s right, though, although it’s not that hard to predict the rise of the mobile web now when tens of thousands of iPhones are being sold. We can remember claims from various sources that mobile web is the ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social News and Social Bookmarking

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

We see a lot of startups enter the social bookmarking scene on a regular basis, many of which are never to be heard from again. But a few new interesting entrants have emerged this year in the battle to take on the likes of Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit. ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Social Search

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Despite the never-ending barrage of Google news and the dominant market share of the top four search engines, dozens of startups think they can do a better job at helping you query the Web. In fact, we rounded up a list of more than 40 of them a few ...

Open Web Awards: Nominations for Widgets and Applications

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Late last year, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would be the year of the widget. Boy, were they right! Aside from the usual buzz that surrounds the likes of Google, Facebook, and MySpace, this year was dominated by stories of companies coming out of nowhere with distributed applications to ...

WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference & Expo: Mashable Readers Save $49

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

The Web Guild Web 2.0 Conference & Expo is January 28-29 in Santa Clara, CA. As the name would suggest, the confnerence is hosted by Web Guild, a non-profit organization for the technology community. The conference itself focuses on how to apply Web 2.0 technology to business, with ...