The open social party is apparently the place to be,” writes Maria M. Diaz:

Even old Microsoft just announced LiveMesh). Now Yahoo, who’s Flickr photo sharing site is the second most popular used API on the web, has rolled out a limited preview to the developer platform they announced in February called SearchMonkey. The limited developer preview was announced by Yahoo! CTO Ari Balogh at his keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Conference held last week in San Francisco.