One thing that annoys the heck out of me with maps you see on a screen is that you can’t rotate them. When I look at a real map I constantly turn it around so that I face in the right direction. Google maps lately added this feature in the hybrid and satellite maps but […]

A friend of mine was asked to produce some videos and screencasts to explain YQL to non-technical people and asked me to give her a definition. Here’s what I came up with: What is YQL and what is it good for ? The Internet as we see it (web sites, games, videos) is only a […]

One of the things I love about my company is that you are perfectly allowed in Yahoo to give “Fire and Brimstone” talks to rally your colleagues. It is a very open company and if you can back up criticism with proof and offer solutions people are happy to listen to you. Last Thursday I […]

This is a talk I gave two days ago in the Sunnyvale office of Yahoo explaining how I built some of the sites you might have seen like Keywordfinder, GeoMaker, GooHooBi or UK House Prices. There is actually no magic to it – I am not a superhuman developer. The main trick to build products […]

As part of a larger article, I am currently building some tools that use geographical information. The first one is a pure JavaScript solution to link locations in a text to Google Maps and to show a small map under the text. You can see it in action by clicking the screenshot below. All you […]