Yahoo! Local Traffic Dashboard Widget and RSS

Speaking of Mac OS
X “Tiger”, blogs have been buzzing with talk of href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari/">Safari’s new RSS
capabilities, performance improvements, href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/">Spotlight
(Apple’s own “desktop search”), and href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/">Dashboard.

Dashboard is a framework for building lightweight “widgets” which
pull in data from a variety of sources and display them in interesting
ways on your desktop. We worked with Apple to build a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/yahoolocaltraffic.html">Yahoo!
Local Traffic Widget that’s currently featured on their dashboard
site. That motivated me to finally upgrade my Powerbook to Tiger this weekend.

src="http://images.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/images/yahoolocaltraffic_200505021150.jpg"
height="314" width="382" border="0"/>

It didn’t take long for folks to dig behind the scenes and realize
that it’s href="http://ejohn.org/blog/traffic-conditions-data/">powered by an
RSS feed. It was href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/subscribe_to_yo_1.html">on
the O’Reilly Radar before we knew it.

It’s great to see Apple putting more Web 2.0 tools on all those
desktops and laptops.

Remix away!

Jeremy Zawodny

Yahoo! Search