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Build a world-class widget with the Yahoo! Blueprint Platform—offering a standards-based language, easy-to-use toolkit, access to innovative features—and a seamless path to hundreds of devices.
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Maximize your development efforts with Yahoo! Mobile Widgets. Create a single widget that runs on hundreds of mobile devices, and works across Yahoo! mobile services. You’ll save time and resources designing a widget with built in mass-market appeal.
Blueprint. The features you want in an easy-to-use platform.
Introducing Blueprint 1.0, Yahoo!’s standards-based development platform that incorporates cutting edge features, including location-based services, maps, SSL and tables. Blueprint is XML-based, providing a versatile and highly functional environment. With the SDK, you’ll get an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process, allowing you to create, test and build more functionality into your widget.
Open to multiple platforms, numerous operating systems.
Blueprint is the fastest way to get your widget out to a broad market of potential customers. It runs seamlessly across platforms, supports multiple operating systems and hundreds of phones—giving your widget the exposure it deserves.
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Developer Blog Highlights
August 25, 2008
Please participate: Blueprint Developers Survey
Greetings from the Blueprint Team! A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo! launched the first official version of the Blueprint 1.0 SDK to the world’s developers. Since then, we have seen a lot of activity from developers building and testing widgets, but we also saw requests for improvements. We would like to find out how your experience has [more...]
August 19, 2008
Come and hack at Yahoo! Headquarters
Yahoo! is hosting another Open Hack Day on September 12-13 at the Yahoo! Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Join us Friday for workshops and exclusive hands-on access to our newest APIs and SDKs - including Blueprint. Stay overnight and code till the cows come home. Pitch a tent. Eat, drink, and geek. Meet the Yahoos and make [more...]
August 18, 2008
Yahoo!’s mobile coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Yahoo! Go 3.0 is built on Blueprint. The Beijing 2008 Widget was released before the games as a countdown app with photos and news, and turned to full-blown sports coverage with the lighting of the Olympic Flame. For developers as well as sports enthusiasts, this Widget [more...]
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