Add an API to Your Yahoo! 360 Blog
Start using third-party services with your Yahoo! 360 blog by adding your own API.
Yahoo! 360 is a site designed to help you keep in touch with friends, family, and coworkers. In addition to sharing reviews, photos, and lists of your favorite music and movies, Yahoo! 360 lets you post messages in a blog. Of course, Yahoo! isn’t the only place you can keep a blog. Services such as Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) and TypePad (http://www.typepad.com) will also host a blog for you. But if your friends are all chatting away on Yahoo! 360, you might want to keep a journal there, where you and your friends can all connect.
At the time of this writing, Yahoo! 360 is in beta testing, and its developers are working on the features they intend to offer for a wider release. Unfortunately, this means the blog portion of Yahoo! 360 isn’t as robust as some of the other weblog services, and Yahoo! 360 doesn’t yet offer a way to post to your weblog from third-party services. For example, if I keep a weblog on Blogger, I can post photos to that weblog from Flickr (http://www.flickr.com), a photo-sharing application recently acquired by Yahoo!. That’s because Blogger offers an application programming interface (API) that lets other services access data programmatically.
Even though Yahoo! 360 doesn’t offer an API, with a bit of scripting you can mimic a weblog API and start posting through third-party tools.
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