Yahoo to Promote Home Page Apps During Open Hack Day

From PC World: Yahoo has opened the application floodgates to its home page, with hopes that external developers will soon build tens of thousands of programs that Yahoo.com's more than 330 million visitors will find useful.

Although Yahoo announced its intention to do this last week, the company will blare out the message at its Open Hack Day conference in New York City on Friday and Saturday.

The event, an intense confab for third-party developers, advertisers and Web publishers that includes educational and hands-on sessions, will be held in the Big Apple for the first time.

"We're excited to go to New York City and have the opportunity to sit before a big publisher and advertiser audience, in addition to developers of course, and let them know that the largest home page on the Internet is now open and available to them to find an audience through," said Cody Simms, senior director of product management for Yahoo's Open Strategy (YOS) initiative.

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