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PhotoSoup

PhotoSoup is a visual word puzzle generator built with tag-photo pairs from Flickr. This prototype uses public, Creative-Commons-licensed photos and Flickr’s open APIs. The object of the game is to find all the tags hidden (up, down, across, and diagonal) in the puzzle square. The photos around the perimeter of the puzzle are the clues […]

Popularity: 15% [?]

BravoNation

BravoNation is a useful website to let people give achievements to people, and it’s also a platform to let developers build connected achievement systems on the web. More information is found here.
Who built it

Gordon Luk
Kevin Cheng
Ernie Hsiung
Nikhil Bobb

What people are saying
Yahoo! Brickhouse launches BravoNation, waxy.org, Andy Baio
“The BravoNation website is fun, but I think more […]

Popularity: 12% [?]

Blog Remix

Blog Remix is an experimental desktop application from Yahoo!’s Media Innovation Group that lets you remix your favorite MP3 blogs. Spend a couple hours immersed in the world of music blogs, saving your favorite posts and building up your own personal mix along the way. When you’re done, you can save the result […]

Popularity: 30% [?]

Kickstart

Yahoo! Kickstart is a professional network with a distinct purpose: to connect college students, recent grads, professionals and alumni to discover internships and jobs, or get career advice and mentorship.
Kickstart allows you to create a professional profile, browse company profiles and network with peers, professors, alumni and potential employers. If networking is the best way […]

Popularity: 17% [?]

Easylistener

Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any page on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and start playing back any mp3s it finds.
Who built it

William White
Joseph Magnani

How do I get it
Use this handy Code […]

Popularity: 100% [?]

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