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Mashup & Eatup Lunch at Where 2.0

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Thanks to everyone who attended the Mashup & Eatup Lunch at Where 2.0 yesterday. This event had a big response, so if you couldn’t make it, here are the presentations for Flash & AJAX as well as our Introduction.
We had quite an interactive group with many interesting questions and comments. A few questions came up more than once:
Can I create a mashup and use it (live) outside the browser with the Flash API?Yes! Using the AS Flash API, you can publish your mashup as an .exe file. After attaching the map component in the Flash IDE (on the stage or programmatically) and completing your mashup, go into File > Publish Settings. Select the “Windows Projector” box and click “Publish”.
How many free geocodes per day does Yahoo!’s API provide?Currently our AJAX and Flash APIs provide up to 50,000 geocodes per day using built-in methods. Just pass in your addresses and the API does all the work for you.
Is there a way for me to tell Yahoo! about my Application or Mashup?Yes, we recommend that you join our Yahoo! Maps Developer Community and post to that list. Then submit what you’ve built to the Yahoo! Gallery so the world can see it.
What kind of content is available to me for my mashup?Yahoo! has a variety of content for you to choose from. There’s Local Search, Traffic, Flickr and Upcoming.org to name a few and a whole bunch of RSS feeds for everything from Groups to Shopping.
It was great chatting with everyone at the Mashup & Eatup Lunch. Thanks again to all who made it. And for those who didn’t make it, we plan to do this again very soon. Keep on eye on the Yahoo! Maps Developer Community and this blog for updates.
Keep the Mashups coming!
Chuck, Mirek & VinceYahoo! Maps