Mashups: Beyond Maps
Chad Dickerson
chadd@yahoo-inc.com
Duke Web Community Forum
May 11, 2006
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Coming up
• A bit about Yahoo! and what I do
• Mashups: historical context and definition
• Yahoo! and web services
• Unavoidable mention of maps
• Cool non-maps apps that you could have
built yourself, featuring services you might
not know about
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Background on Yahoo!
• Based in Sunnyvale, CA
• ~10,000 employees
• $4.6 - 4.85B annual revenue (2006 est.)
• Recent acquisitions: Flickr, del.icio.us,
Upcoming.org, Webjay
• 402 million use Yahoo! services each
month
Source:http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/060418/media_yahoo_earns.html?.v=6
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