My presentation at FOWA Tour 2009 about YQL and remixing the web

1. Remixing and
distribution of web
content made dead easy
Christian Heilmann
Future of Web Apps UK Tour 2009

2. Evolution

3. What is
the web?

4. Documents
The internet is a media.

5. The internet is a media.
Things

6. Data

7. Connected

8. Hunters &
Gatherers

9. My name is Chris. I am a German living
in London, England and one of my
favourite places to go is Hong Kong. I
also enjoyed Brazil a lot.

10. My name is Chris. I am a German living
in London, England and one of my
favourite places to go is Hong Kong. I
also enjoyed Brazil a lot.
Name: Brazil
Type: Country
Name: London, England, GB Latitude: -14.2429
Type: Town Longitude: -54.3878
Latitude: 51.5063
Longitude: -0.12714 Name: Hong Kong
Type: Country
Latitude: 22.4112
Longitude: 114.154
http://icant.co.uk/jsplacemaker/getinfo.html

11. My name is Chris. I am a German living
in London, England and one of my
favourite places to go is Hong Kong. I
also enjoyed Brazil a lot.

12. APIs

13. Language

14. showinfo (bool)
show video title before
video starts playing.
showannotations(bool)
display video
annotations.

15. Simplicity

17. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/

25. What can you do with this?

26. select * from
upcoming.events where
location = quot;cambridge,ukquot;

27. select * from
upcoming.events where
woeid in (select woeid
from geo.places where
text=quot;Cambridge,UKquot;)

28. select * from
upcoming.events where
woeid in (select woeid
from geo.places where
text=quot;Cambridge,UKquot;)

30. select
title,url,venue_name,
description from
upcoming.events where
woeid in (select woeid
from geo.places where
text= quot;cambridge,ukquot;)

31. select title,url,venue,
description from
upcoming.events where
woeid in (select woeid
from geo.places where
text= quot;cambridge,ukquot;)

32. select title from
twitter.user.timeline
where id=quot;codepo8quot;

33. select title from
twitter.user.timeline
where id=quot;codepo8quot;and
title like quot;%@%quot;

34. select title from
twitter.user.timeline
where id=quot;codepo8quot; or
id=quot;ydnquot; and title like
quot;%@%quot;

35. select * from
search.termextract where
context in
(select title from
twitter.user.timeline
where id=quot;codepo8quot;)

36. select * from html where
url=quot;http://news.bbc.co.ukquot;
and xpath=quot;//td[2]//aquot;

37. select alt from html where
url=quot;http://news.bbc.co.ukquot;
and xpath=quot;//td[2]//a/
img[@alt]quot;

38. select * from
flickr.photos.search where
text in
(select alt from html where
url=quot;http://news.bbc.co.ukquot;
and xpath=quot;//td[2]//a/
img[@alt]quot;)

39. Flexibility
๏ mix and match APIs
๏ filter results
๏ simplify authentication
๏ use in console or from
code
๏ minimal research of
documentation
๏ caching of results
๏ proxied on Yahoos
servers

40. Extending

41. use quot;http://www.datatables.org/
nestoria/nestoria.search.xmlquot; as
nestoria;
select * from nestoria where
place_name=quot;Cambridgequot;

42. http://github.com/spullara/yql-tables/tree/master

44. Re-Use

46. Sources:
http://www.caption.it/create/scrabble.php
http://www.nematodes.org/NeglectedGenomes/DEUTEROSTOMIA/
Axolotl/ATC.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/
Magna_Carta.jpg
http://www.vibrant.com/cable-messes.php
http://toomuchfree-time.blogspot.com/2008/12/poke-maniac.html
Tower of Babel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fimoculous/
3210086353/
Leatherman: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paalb/11772559/ (scary
search topic)
London: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67871380@N00/3483861225
Hong Kong: http://www.flickr.com/photos/
29650319@N06/3571513488
Brazil: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3336/237971526/

47. T H A N K S !
Keep in touch:
Christian Heilmann
http://wait-till-i.com
http://scriptingenabled.org
http://twitter.com/codepo8