Learning from Yahoo Web Services

It's hard not to love Yahoo APIs and Web Services. With a constantly growing library of web services, code snippets and now even user interface components Yahoo really leads the pack. As we start the process of updated our existing library of TRYNT Web Services (from 1.0 to 2.0) we are taking more then a few cues from Yahoo.

One new feature you can expect to see in near future is support for various output formats. Similar to Yahoo we plan on supporting:

• XML
• JSON
• Serialized-PHP

The format we're most excited about is Serialized-PHP because of the potential benefit it offers for PHP based mash-up developers. Using Serialized-PHP instead of XML can reduce your overhead by removing the need for a XML module. Javascript/AJAX developers reap a similar reward by using JSON instead of XML.

Have we peaked your interest yet? Here are a few real world examples:

• Wikipedia > Odin (XML)
• Wikipedia > Odin (JSON)
• Wikipedia > Odin (Serialized-PHP)

Please note since this is a very beta v2 some changes may occur prior to finalization.