Yahoo! links to Facebook
Yahoo! has announced a new step in its efforts to integrate social networking services. Now, it will be possible to link a Yahoo! account to a Facebook account.
Those who connect their accounts will see Facebook updates in the Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Homepage and other Yahoo websites and vice versa. Who generate content in Yahoo services such as Flickr may share their contributions through Facebook.
In addition, Yahoo! has renewed management of profiles to make easier the privacy settings and provide a central control panel for managing networks. Yahoo accounts Profiles has become known as Yahoo! Pulse, a central panel where all activity on social networks and privacy policy can be managed. Because Yahoo seeks a relay of growth that would resume the strength to its eternal rival, Google in social networks. For that, Yahoo! has created partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Koprol.
Yahoo! research anticipates that Internet users will be more and more on recommendations from friends to find information. By integrating different social networks with their traditional news aggregators they hope to become the center of the exploration of the Internet. The official company blog explained in these terms:
“Social network locations experienced explosive growth over the past years. A website that 600 million people visit each month, Yahoo! is in a unique position to attach different social experiences across the web in a single place of“.
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