---
title: "Yahoo ups the ante with APIs"
date: 2006-03-08
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Yahoo ups the ante with APIs

Yahoo has announced [four new APIs](https://web.archive.org/web/20111127030344/http://mcmanus.typepad.com/grind/2006/03/new_goodies_for.html) for its [Developer Network](https://web.archive.org/web/20111127030344/http://developer.yahoo.net/): Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping. The Shopping 2.0 API is available now, while the Photos, Calendar and MyWeb read/write APIs will be available soon *\[updated – thanks Jeffrey\]*. While they’ll be free to use for non commercial purposes, Ash Patel (Yahoo chief product officer) [tells us](https://web.archive.org/web/20111127030344/http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181501409&articleID=181501409) there are commercial offerings coming soon.

![YPN Gallery](https://web.archive.org/web/20111127030344im_/http://rww.readwriteweb.netdna-cdn.com/images/ypn_updates.png)*Yahoo’s new [Application Gallery](https://web.archive.org/web/20111127030344/http://gallery.yahoo.com/homepage.php)*

I remember speaking with ex-YPN chief Toni Schneider about this [last year](https://web.archive.org/web/20111127030344/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_opens_jav.php) and I was impressed by his vision for a commercial platform for APIs. I’m expecting Yahoo to really the ante with Google and Microsoft in terms of mashup ecosystems. Don’t count out AOL and eBay either. \[…\]

\[[Full Story on ZDNet…](https://web.archive.org/web/20111127030344/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=135)\]

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_ups_the_a.php))*