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Yahoo! Developer Network:Placemaker
Placemaker
In this video, Christian Heilmann introduces Yahoo! Placemaker. According to chris, Yahoo! Placemaker is a web service API. "You give it a URL to get data from or a text to extract geographical information from". He explains the reasons and the need for a tool like placemaker. Chris made known the few annoyances with placemaker and demonstrated workarounds using YQL and other techniques.

ABOUT CHRISTIAN HEILMANN
Christian Heilmann is a geek and hacker by heart. He’s been a professional web developer for about eleven years and worked his way through several agencies up to Yahoo where he delivered Yahoo Maps Europe and Yahoo Answers.
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ABOUT THE YAHOO! DEVELOPER NETWORK
The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups. Yahoo! APIs let developers tap into Yahoo!'s world-class data and infrastructure to help power their businesses and integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and interesting place for everyone.
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Brian Sletten's Semantic Web Technologies Bootcamp, BRIAN SLETTEN'S SEMANTIC WEB BOOTCAMP
Christophe Herreman & Roland Zwaga's Spring ActionScript course, CHRISTOPHE HERREMAN'S SPRING ACTIONSCRIPT COURSE
Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop, DAMJAN VUJNOVIC'S ADVANCED JAVASCRIPT WORKSHOP
David A. Black's Ruby Bootcamp , DAVID A. BLACK'S RUBY BOOTCAMP
David Pollak's Lift Basics Workshop, DAVID POLLAK'S LIFT BASICS
Dmitry Buzdin's Advanced Google Web Toolkit: Large-Scale GWT Development, DMITRY BUZDIN'S ADVANCED GOOGLE WEB TOOLKIT
Gavin Bell's Creating Social Applications, GAVIN BELL'S SOCIAL APPLICATIONS
Mark Birbeck's RDFa The Theory and Practice of Structured Data Publishing, MARK BIRBECK'S RDFA THEORY AND PRACTICE
Matthew Baxter-Reynolds' PhoneGap/Apache Cordova End-to-end, MATTHEW BAXTER-REYNOLDS' PHONEGAP/APACHE CORDOVA
Peter Lubbers' HTML5 Mobile Mastery, PETER LUBBERS' HTML5 MOBILE MASTERY
Peter Lubbers' HTML5 Performance, Communication, and WebSockets Training Course, PETER LUBBERS' HTML5 PERFORMANCE & WEBSOCKETS
Russel Winder's Python Workshop, RUSSEL WINDER'S PYTHON WORKSHOP
Typesafe's Fast Track to Play, TYPESAFE'S FAST TRACK TO PLAY
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Christophe Coenraets:Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, JavaScript and PhoneGap, Cross-Platform Mobile Apps
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Paul Ardeleanu:Native vs HTML5 - why, when and how to use them, Native vs HTML5
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Luke Daley: Managing JavaScript with Gradle, JavaScript with Gradle
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Elise Huard:Ruby’s bin men: a closer look at the garbage collector, Ruby’s bin men: a closer look at the gar
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Tom Stuart:Dependency Injection, the Dependency Inversion Principle, and You, Dependency Injection
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Tom McMillen:CouchDB at the Hut Group, CouchDB at the Hut Group
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John Zablocki:The Couchbase Server Tutorial, The Couchbase Server Tutorial
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Peter Martischka:Etherpad Lite: Make Collaborative Editing the Standard on the Web, Etherpad Lite
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Tiago Rodriguez:Continuously integrated JS development with Buster.js and Phantom.js, Buster.js and Phantom.js
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Gavin Bell:Is Everything Social?, Is Everything Social?
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Dmitry Buzdin:State of the Web, State of the Web
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Gavin Bell:Gavin Bell's Creating Social Applications, Gavin Bell's Social Applications
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QCon New York 2012, QCon New York 2012
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Damjan Vujnovic:Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop, Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop
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