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Fly with the Fire Eagle!

Fire Eagle is an open platform that helps users take their location to the Web and gives users a place to store and manage information about their location, and offers developers clear protocols for updating or accessing that information. Because it’s open, any networked service can use Fire Eagle to respond to a user’s location […]

Popularity: 18% [?]

Be a Superdelegate

Superdelegates have enormous power in the 2008 US Presidential election. Voters have already cast millions of votes for the Democratic nominee, but neither candidate will have enough votes to win outright. It looks like a few hundred superdelegate votes will determine whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton faces off against John McCain in […]

Popularity: 59% [?]

Vibes

Vibes is a social experiment tracking the flow of kindness across the world. Do you have a friend with the flu? A brother or sister with a big job interview tomorrow? Or do you just want to let someone know you’re thinking of them?
Send them some good vibes, and watch in real […]

Popularity: 23% [?]

NewsGlobe

Built for the most recent Yahoo! Hack Day, NewsGlobe is a fun new way to browse Yahoo! News Top Stories. It pulls together two existing Yahoo! services and takes advantage of the performance enhancements in the latest Adobe Flash Player.
The NewsGlobe consists of three basic pieces: a Yahoo! News Top Stories RSS feed, a geo-encoding […]

Popularity: 27% [?]

Y! Live

We’re excited to share with you Yahoo! Live, a new experiment in live video from the Advanced Products team at Yahoo!. Y! Live was dreamed up as a way to make it possible for anyone to create their own live video experience. Broadcast the concert you’re at. Webcast your own live DJ set. Lifecast. Build […]

Popularity: 32% [?]

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