socialmedian: Yahoo Becomes More FriendFeed-like, Adds Updates From 20 Outside Sites

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Yahoo Becomes More FriendFeed-like, Adds Updates From 20 Outside Sites

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Jan 16, 2009

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As part of its Open Strategy, Yahoo starting today is letting users add updates from their friends based on their activities on 20 other services across the Web.

These updates will appear in a FriendFeed-like fashion on Yahoo members’ profile pages and in Yahoo Mail. Already, Yahoo users can get updates from friends who use Yahoo services such as Flickr, Buzz, and Yahoo Music. Now, they can add activity streams from Yelp, SmugMug, Picassa, StumbleUpon, YouTube, Pandora, Goodreads, SlideShare, and more (see complete list below).

Back in October, when Yahoo previewed its Application Platform, the company described what it wanted to do with updates. We wrote back then:

Yahoo will let developers present their users with notifications that let them share their data back to Yahoo. For example, if their uploading photos off network, they can choose to send those photos to Flickr as well. The same goes for activity that occurs on sites like Flickr, Yahoo Music, message boards, Digg, or Facebook. Yahoo wants to provide a two-way updates platform that also pushes data

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Comments (3)

Robdiana,

Jan 16, 2009

I would assume that Flickr and delicious too, right?

Thomaspower,

Jan 17, 2009

Friendfeed, SocialMedian, Twitter and in that order are becoming the new Power on the Internet and everyone is trying to copy them rather than acquire them - FF+SM+TW = Power and Influence PI