Seems like my timing is good this week, just a couple of days ago I was discussing the potential of a YouTube upload API with a colleague, then, as if by magic, that very thing came into existence.

I also started an earnest attempt to promote semantic web standards and microformats and this announcement arrives from Yahoo:

The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we’re releasing more details about two important components of the initiative — the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards.

The Data Web in Action
While there has been remarkable progress made toward understanding the semantics of web content, the benefits of a data web have not reached the mainstream consumer. Without a killer semantic web app for consumers, site owners have been reluctant to support standards like RDF, or even microformats. We believe that app can be web search.

Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

Now I’m going to start a campaign for higher web developer salaries