Yahoo! accelerates social momentum

Yahoo! Inc. announced new product integrations that continue bringing the social experiences from across the Web to Yahoo! consumers around the world.

“More and more,people rely on social sites to share and discover information that matters to them,making Yahoo! uniquely positioned to provide people with all of the mainstream methods of content discovery – social,search,communications,and editorial,” said Cody Simms,senior director of Social Platforms and Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) at Yahoo!.

“Starting with Facebook,we are bringing all of these elements together to give people one simple,trusted place to share information and connect. We think this offers great benefit to people across the web,and it’s key to helping Yahoo! extend our reach and increase engagement.”

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Facebook Integration — Yahoo! has reached an important milestone in its partnership with Facebook. Starting this week,people who use both Yahoo! and Facebook can link their accounts and view and share updates with friends across both networks.

People who connect their accounts can consume their Facebook News Feed on the Yahoo! homepage and in Yahoo! Mail and other Yahoo! sites and services. Additionally,people who create and share content on Yahoo! sites – including Yahoo! News,Yahoo! Sports,Flickr,and many Yahoo! entertainment sites,such as omg!,Yahoo! TV,and Yahoo! Movies – can easily share their actions with friends back on Facebook. Additional integrations will be ongoing.

Yahoo! has refreshed the experience to make its privacy settings easier to use and to give people a central dashboard to manage what they share on Yahoo! from the external social accounts and apps that they have linked to Yahoo!,starting with Facebook and with others to come later this year.

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