Growing in the cloud, Yahoo opens more API’s

We’re seeign more and more signs that Yahoo really does have a clue about computing in the cloud. On thursday, CTO Ari Balogh annouce they are opening more API’s.

“We are taking open to a whole other place,” Balogh said. “We are rewiring Yahoo from the inside out with a developer platform that will open up the assets of Yahoo in a way never done before, making the consumer experience social throughout and provide hooks to developers.” He noted that Yahoo has 10 billion latent connections across its properties, such as mail, messenger and fantasy sports. (Cnet)

This is the right way for Yahoo to grow, and maybe introduce a little more competiton in the search marketplace. By enabling developers to make use of Yahoo paltforms, Yahoo trafiic wil grow exponentially. Everyone wins, except maybe Microsoft.