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2010

A predictable web of data—the why of YQL. Christian Heilmann is moving from Yahoo! to Mozilla to head up their evangelism team, and has marked the occasion by releasing the first chapter of a proposed book on YQL.

# 30th October 2010, 7:44 am / christian-heilmann, mozilla, yahoo, yql, recovered, evangelism

GeoPlanet Explorer. Chris Heilmann’s YQL powered explorer for the invaluable Yahoo! GeoPlanet / WhereOnEarth dataset. Every API deserves an explorer of some sort.

# 2nd March 2010, 8:14 am / apis, christian-heilmann, geoplanet, yahoo, yql

2009

JS-Placemaker—geolocate texts in JavaScript. Chris Heilmann exposed Placemaker to JavaScript (JSONP) using a YQL execute table. Try his examples—I’m impressed that “My name is Jack London, I live in Ontario” returns just Ontario, demonstrating that Placemaker’s NLP is pretty well tuned.

# 23rd May 2009, 12:36 am / christian-heilmann, geocoding, geospatial, javascript, jsonp, nlp, placemaker, yahoo, yql, yqlexecute

2008

Interview: Simon Willison on OpenID. Christian Heilmann interviewed me for the YDN blog.

# 3rd February 2008, 10:18 pm / christian-heilmann, interview, openid, yahoo, ydn

2007

Return of the HTTP overhead delay. Christian proposes a neat way of improving page performance, by delaying non-essential images such as avatars until after the rest of the page has loaded.

# 11th July 2007, 3:12 pm / avatars, christian-heilmann, http, images, javascript, onload, performance