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In July of last year, Yahoo! launched BOSS which stands for Build your Own Search Service. The concept behind the service is to enable web developers to create search options for various websites and applications based on Yahoo! search technology.

Last November, Yahoo! enabled Key Terms for BOSS. Then in January came the announcement that Yahoo! would be charging for BOSS usage (which will begin at some point in the second quarter of this year).

Now another announcement comes in the form of added capabilities. They are:

* Delicious content (including Delicious saves, top tags, and count information)
* Advanced language capabilities
* News sorting functionality

This article describes in detail what it takes to build a LAMP application that understands Unicode. That is, an application that allows for the input, processing, storage and display of Unicode characters. Many developers are aware of what Unicode is, and some apply it on a regular basis. For long, I’ve been in the category of developers who can get away with not knowing about Unicode at all. When you’re working in a controlled environment with a fixed audience and corporate standards for language and character sets, Unicode is less relevant. However, as I started development on Project JungleDragon, a global web application, Unicode instantly became relevant. In a global web application, you surely do not want to alienate a large portion of your audience by allowing them to input latin characters only.

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Google released a developer-oriented update to its Chrome Web browser on Wednesday that fixes some crashes and video playback issues.

Chrome is still in beta testing, and for those who have an even higher tolerance for rough-around-the-edges software, Google also offers developer versions. Chrome 0.3.154.3 is the latter; see our earlier post on how to subscribe to the Chrome Dev channel. Read more…

Release season is in full swing in the desktop Linux ecosystem. The next major versions of Ubuntu and Fedora will be landing soon, but we got a head start this week by testing the latest betas. They both include version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel, which was released this week, and GNOME 2.24, which was released last month. Read more…

The free, open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 final version, has finally come to the table with a lot of enhancements and improvements. This alternative to Microsoft Office suite has seen a touch-up of its graphical user interface to support Mac OS X and ODF 1.2. It has improved the spreadsheet collaboration, language selector, programmability, crop feature, etc. Read more…