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Are you excited about Music? Do you enjoy creating great experiences for users to enjoy?  If so, you have the opportunity to be part of the team that builds the top Music site on the internet. Email your resume to ymusic-jobs@yahoo-inc.com.

We are building Music applications such as Music Video, Internet Radio, Music Blogs, Yahoo Media Player and several other exciting applications. We’re hiring for a few positions that go a little something like this:

• Build cutting edge applications and mashups to entertain millions of users
• Develop scalable applications that services up to thousands of requests per second
• Review wireframes, design treatments and business requirements.
• Participate in design and code reviews, documentation of design, implementation of methodologies to ensure high quality software
• Utilize software engineering best practices such as source control, unit testing and continuous integration

The roles are within our Media Applications Group, working on web applications that power music experiences both on and off the Yahoo! Music site.

Some key attributes of a successful candidate will be:

• Extensive experience with PHP (PHP5 and framework experience strongly preferred. i.e. CakePHP, Zend, Symfony, CodeIgniter)
• Cross browser compatibility, Search Engine Optimization, regular user of Web Services, XML/XSLT and REST/SOAP style interfaces
• Experience using caching layer such as SQUID and Memcached
• Strong presentation layer experience (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks)
• Fluency with the LAMP stack
• Prior experience with or knowledge of large scale, high volume systems
• At least five years software development experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• A familiarity with a wide variety of software development methodologies, tools, languages and approaches

Some responsibilities of the position:

• Good clean fast code that thinks a few moves ahead
• A disciplined approach to design/architecture, development, documentation and maintainability
• Self-management in the code-test-debug cycle
• Co-ordination with other team members, partners and external stakeholders through documentation and discussion
• Contribute to the continual improvement of our development process

Bonus:

• Academic background in computer science (BSc or MSc)
• Expertise in Java, Perl, JavaScript, C or C++
• Expertise in networking, databases, mail handling, image processing, XUL or OS X development.
• Experience in both small start-up and large company environments

Email your resume to ymusic-jobs@yahoo-inc.com.Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.  For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.

Today we’re releasing a few updates - a new version of FoxyTunes for Firefox and several enhancements to FoxyTunes Planet.

Following our mission to support any media players you might be using, the latest FoxyTunes for Firefox now supports AIMP2 and The KMPlayer media players. Stay tuned for more popular players being supported in the near future

We are also launching several enhancements on the FoxyTunes Planet website – first, there’s a whole new Yahoo! Music Videos widget, so now you have a choice between YouTube and Yahoo! Music video catalogs. The Rhapsody widget has been enhanced to play the top artist tracks right there on the page using the FoxyPlayer. We also tweaked the page layout a bit, and while we had to disable the Yahoo! Image Search and Hype Machine widgets for now, we’re definitely planning to add tons of cool new stuff to the pages in the near future. Finally, you no longer need to create an account and login to persist your widget layout and settings – so if you want to tweak anything in the new layout, feel free to do it without logging in.

Hope you like the new Foxy stuff, let us know what you think!

We’re very excited to announce that FoxyPlayer is now part of the largest social bookmarking site in the world, Delicious.

Our good friends at Delicious are providing a great place to store everything you find on the Internet and have long been committed to supporting mp3 playback. The introduction of Yahoo! Music’s FoxyPlayer extends the playback experience by allowing continuous play of multiple bookmarks as one big playlist, support for a plethora of file types, and links to get more information about the currently playing track.

To try this out, you can filter by the “system:media:audio” tag, then filter further by the type of media you’d like to hear – like the name of the artist, genre etc. The results can include podcasts, mp3, music, and a whole host of other file types. Now you can play all them all using the FoxyPlayer!

By the way, if you like to listen to music while you surf, you can launch FoxyPlayer on Delicious and control it with FoxyTunes while surfing in other tabs.

Here are a few examples of ways to listen:

http://delicious.com/tag/system:filetype:mp3+jazz+free
http://delicious.com/tag/system:media:audio+npr
http://delicious.com/tag/system:media:audio+podcast

Now it’s time to sit back, relax, and listen to your bookmarks.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

-Stephen Garcia

Today we’re pleased to announce the release of FoxyTunes for Firefox v3.5 Beta. We’ve made some really exciting improvements that we hope you enjoy.

Get FoxyTunes for Firefox v3.5 Beta.

We’ve made the controls smarter, updated the default skin and improved the menus so that you can do what you want faster and easier.

Get the full details over at the FoxyTunes blog and let us know what you think!

Hey all,

We’ve been working with our friends at Yahoo! Developer Network to make accessing the Music API simpler and easier to use with other services. We’re happy to announce the availability of our Music services within the Yahoo! Query Language environment (YQL).

The YQL platform provides a single endpoint service that enables developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo! and the rest of the Web. YQL exposes a SQL-like SELECT syntax that is both familiar to developers and expressive enough for getting the right data. For example, you can search for an artist to use in mashups with other services (warning, small bits of tech speak ahead):

select * from music.artist.search where keyword=”Coldplay”;

If you head over to the YQL Console, click on the data tables module in the right panel, you can begin to play around with the available music tables. You can even create your own tables to share with the larger community.

Many other cool things in the latest release of YQL. You can find out all the juicy details on the YQL team blog.

Enjoy, and let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Stephen Garcia

Yahoo! Music

Some of you may have noticed on the FoxyTunes blog that we recently released support for YouTube within the FoxyTunes toolbar. This addition lets you not only control a single video, but also lets you navigate playlists full of videos. Do all this from the convenience of your FoxyTunes toolbar while you are surfing in other tabs.

Install the latest version and try it out with this Country YouTube playlist. Currently this feature only supports videos on YouTube.com, but we’re looking at ways to support embedded videos as well.

We know that you love your music and that YouTube is becoming a great source for music videos. We hope you enjoy this feature as much as we do.

Thanks,

Stephen Garcia

Yahoo! Music

Today we’re excited to announce that TwittyTunes is officially a default feature within FoxyTunes! In addition to Twitter we’ve add support for Facebook, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Last.fm, and Yahoo! Status. With these services we let you share on your own terms – you can manually send messages to your social networks as well as setting up automatic services like Last.fm scrobbling.

Get the full scoop over at the FoxyTunes blog.

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