Poli 2.0 – Yahoo BOSS
Yesterday evening we had the 4th Poli 2.0 course/lab where Ted Drake was present to talk to us about Yahoo’s search API, Yahoo BOSS. Bobby Voicu from Yahoo Romania and Mircea from uberVU were also present there. Gladly the group was split up in 2 so we actually had some space in that tiny room.
Everyone was present on time and after a few minor technical difficulties(he had a Mac but no adapter) Ted was able to start his presentation about BOSS(with a minor hick-up which we’ll forgive 
). The presentation was not very technical but this was not necessarily a flaw as we found out some interesting things about BOSS and some undisclosed ones that we were asked not to blog yet . He talked about BOSS, its advantages and freedom, about filters and some ways to use BOSS to find the information you want to show to your users. Pretty neat stuff.
Then we headed off to the “Library”(Biblioteca) near Politehnica where we had a drink and a informal conversation with Ted and Bobby. Both were nice enough to stay up pretty late even if they were pretty tired.
That was it, thanks Ted for coming, hope you liked it in Romania and thanks Yahoo for sending someone in.
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