Yahoo is considering investing in hackers with good ideas and technologies, a company executive said on Saturday.

Yahoo released on Wednesday an extension to its YQL platform for simplifying how Web applications consume data. YQL (Yahoo Query Language), launched in October 2008, is gaining an “execute ...

YQL is a programming language similar to SQL (Structured Query Language) that was created by Yahoo. It can be used to query, filter, and combine data stored in databases.

The service is available as a Yahoo Query Language (YQL) table and more information can be found here.

Yahoo is considering investing in hackers with good ideas and technologies, a company executive said on Saturday.

The GeoPlanet and PlaceSpotter APIs will no longer be supported, but their functionality can now be utilized through Yahoo Query Language (YQL) and the BOSS developer suite.

* GeoPlanet & PlaceSpotter APIs are being retired in Q3, which means developers will need to look for the capabilities from those APIs in Yahoo Query Language and BOSS.

YQL (Yahoo Query Language), launched in October 2008, is gaining an “execute” feature that will give developers more control over how their applications get and display Web data.