A short video about life and work at YRB. Includes demos of some cool projects as well as a glimpse of the unique Berkeley lifestyle.
Check out the original blog post on Yodel Anecdotal by Bradley.
[tags]video, YRB, Yahoo! Research Berkeley, life, PR[/tags]
TagMaps is the latest research project to come out of my group at YRB. It is a visualization technique that displays text on geographic maps. TagMaps can be used to communicate characteristics of location-based data in an easy-to-understand way. The World Explorer in particular uses TagMaps to display Flickr tags that denote the ‘important’ tags in any given geographical area. You can play with it at http://tagmaps.research.yahoo.com/worldexplorer.php
I built much of the back end for the system and am in charge of the data apis that we uses. If you want to play with this API for yourself I suggest you head over to either the Yahoo Developer Network or to the TagMaps Yahoo group.
For more info on TagMaps check out the post on the YRB blog.
I’ve just posted a blog entry about geotagging over at the YRB Blog
I won the prize for most unexpected hack!!!
I cant tell you what it was but I do hope that I can convince someone in the company to pick it up and run with it.
More hack day coverage at
Tech Crunch
Chad Dickerson
I have officially started work at Yahoo! My orientation was on the 31st on May. You may now call me a Technical Yahoo!