yap overview - startups

Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP)Jonathan LeBlanc – Technology Evangelist

Yahoo! Developer Network – Partner Integrations

Twitter: @jcleblanc

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YAP Applications What’s a YAP Application?

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• Runs on YAP

• Supports 2- & 3- legged OAuth

• Supports OpenSocial 0.8

JavaScript APIs

Open Applications

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Open Application - Views

Small View

Large View

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• Runs off platform

• Supports 2- & 3-legged OAuth

• Does not contain views

• Requires users to authenticate

session

OAuth Applications

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Y!OS Components How does it work?

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Y!OS Components – Open Authentication (OAuth)

• 2-legged & 3-legged OAuth

• Consumer / Shared Secret keys

• Similar to proprietary BBAuth, but

open standard

• http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth/

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• Allows secured access to private data

• Whitelisted components

• Will begin integrating into OSML

• http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/yml

Y!OS Components – Yahoo Markup Language (YML)

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• Social Directory (read)

• Contacts (read)

• User Status (read / write)

• Updates (read / write)

• http://developer.yahoo.com/social

Y!OS Components – Social APIs

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• HTML / CSS / JavaScript securer

• Enforces standards

• Includes JSLint (http://www.jslint.com)

• One of the first to integrate Caja

• http://code.google.com/p/google-caja

• http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/guide/caja-

support.html

Y!OS Components – Caja

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Caja - IFrame Security Concerns

IFrame Concerns

• Drive-by downloads

• No real content restrictions

• Other known exploits

Caja Implementation

• Blacklist all / Whitelist some model

• Secure OpenSocial container

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PHP SDK Currently AvailableOpen and OAuth Applications

ActionScript 3 SDK Currently AvailableOpen Applications

Y!OS Components – SDKs

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• SQL-like syntax

• Private / Public Data

• Use of many YDN APIs

• Captures external data feeds

• Allows custom tables with the “Open

Data Tables” feature

• http://developer.yahoo.com/yql

Y!OS Components – Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)

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Thank You Questions?