Yahoo! and other websites across the Internet make much of their structured data available to developers, primarily through Web services. To access and query these services, developers traditionally endure the pain of locating the right URLs and documentation to access and query each Web service.

With YQL, developers can access and shape data across the Internet through one simple language, eliminating the need to learn how to call different APIs.

How Do I Get Started?

1. Check out the YQL Console.
2. Read how to access YQL from your application.
3. Get your API Keys to sign your requests if you need them.

Startup Weekend World #2 Challenge from Andrew on Vimeo.

What is Startup Weekend?
Startup Weekend is a community building startup event. Get together with local developers, marketers, designers, enthusiasts, and do what you do best. Start projects, Start companies. No talk, all action. The weekend of June 5-7 is Startup Weekend World. Celebrating the news that Startup Weekend is now ‘open’ to anyone to organize. How exciting 20+ cities from around the worl will host their own startup Weekends. No city is too big or small.

What’s its purpose?
Build new startup companies, bring people together, share ideas.

What’s the target market?
Technology, Web Development, Entrepreneurs, Legal, Marketing, Web 2.0, e-Business

What are the requirements?
Be a technology enthusiast, be a Web Junkie, Programmer, IT person, blogger, marketers, lawyer or just have a cool business idea.

Is it FREE?
Yes! It’s Free.

REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT
Register here now for the June 5-7 Event: http://puertorico2.eventbrite.com/

1. Removing, Showing or Hiding DOM elements

// Remove Element
$("#div").remove();

// Hide
$("#div").hide();
$("#div").hide("slow");
$("#div").hide("fast");
$("#div").hide(1000);
$("#div").hide(1000, callback); 

// Show
$("#div").show();
$("#div").show("slow");
$("#div").show("fast");
$("#div").show(1000);
$("#div").show(1000, callback);  

// Toggle Hide/ Show
$("#div").toggle();
$("#div").toggle("slow");

2. Select All Check Boxes

// Check
$("#selectList").attr('checked', true); 

// Uncheck
$("#selectList").attr('checked', false);

3. Creating Images on the Fly

$("").attr({ "src": "images/loadingAnimation.gif" }).appendTo("#div");

4. jQuery noConflict used when using other libraries

var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j('#div').hide();

5. Getting Selected Radio Button value

$("input[name='id'][checked]").val();

6. Getting Select List values

// Value
$('#selectList').val(); 

// Text value
$('#selectList :selected').text() 

// Multiple Selection
var selections = [];
$('#multipleList :selected').each(function(i, selected){
     selections[i] = $(selected).text();
});

7. Check if checkbox is Checked

$('#checkBox').attr('checked'); 

$('#checkBoxID').is(':checked'); 

$("[:checkbox]:checked").each(
    function() {
    }
);

8. Browser Detection

if( $.browser.safari ) { // Do something }

if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version > 6 ) { // Do something }

if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version <= 6 ) { // Do something }

if ($.browser.mozilla && $.browser.version >= "1.8" )  { // Do something }

9. Highlight a Row onClick

$("tr").click(function() {
    $(this).toggleClass("rowActive");
});

/* CSS highlights clicked row */
.rowActive {
    border: 1px solid #333333;
    background-color: #999999;
}

10. Building the DOM Dynamically

$("
").attr({id:"header", "class":"header"}).html("Welcome to my Site!").appendTo(document.body);
$("").attr("src", "images/logo.gif").appendTo("#header");

You can follow the updates thru Twiidate twitter account.

Triangle Startup Weekend seems to be about breaking the traditional ad business model and shifting to new fresh and creative ideas of getting revenue. There are few interesting videos and ideas that are worth following.

DiggBar from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.
The DiggBar allows you to…

• Digg directly on the destination site: No more awkward toggling between the story page and Digg.
• Easily share stories: You can now create a shortened Digg URL to share on Twitter, Facebook or via email. You can also type digg.com/ before the URL of any page you’re on to create a short URL.
• Access additional analytics: See how many times a story has been viewed.
• View comments while on the story page: Clicking the ‘Comments’ button expands the DiggBar to show the top comment, latest comment, and most controversial without leaving the page.
• Discover related stories: Clicking the ‘Related’ button expands the DiggBar to highlight similar stories.
• See more stories from the same source: Clicking the ‘Source’ button expands the DiggBar to show you more Digg stories from that source site.
• Discover random stories: Click the ‘Random’ button and you’ll be brought to an entirely new, unexpected story.