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With a Little App from my Friends

No doubt you’ve heard a little something about Yahoo!’s new open strategy. If you attended Open Hack Day, you would’ve even been able to use the new Social APIs, which allow you to build powerful social applications on our Yahoo! Applications Platform (YAP).

Not to let down the Flash folks, we’ve created some nice AS3 APIs that let you easily integrate social data and create a Flash or Flex application easily in YAP. There’s even a great Yahoo! theme for Flex applications, to give you a standard look and feel right from the start.

If you’re itching to see what this is all about, it’s currently available as a preview release at http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/yos. While you won’t be able to actually use the services (sorry, coming soon), you can get a head start on learning the system and even begin developing your apps, as the code and documentation are all there for the taking. There’s even lots of source code for example applications, so you can be one step ahead of your friends.[Edit: it's now released!]

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