Yahoo Inc. is getting friendlier with Facebook if the news are to go by.
The two companies are in an expanded partnership announced Wednesday, which will enable Yahoo users with Facebook accounts to blend material from the two web sites without having to leave one site for the other.
This move will deepen the bond established when Yahoo home pages began presenting a glimpse of Facebook updates.
The current deal will intergrate the Facebook Connect service across yahoo, which will allow users to see their Facebook streams on yahoo’s email, Flickr, news, sports and finance sites. On the flip side, personal meterial from Yahoo such as e-mail, movie reviews, and photos can be more easily share on Facebook. Users will also be able to view and update status messages from Yahoo.
These tools are scheduled to be activated somewhere in the first half of 2010.
“As the place where over 500 million people visit every month, Yahoo!’s goal is to bring together social experiences from across the web, and provide one place for people to access information and stay in touch with the people they care about most,” Jim Stoneham, vice president of Communitites for Yahoo! wrote in a blog.
[Source: Associate Press , Yodel Anecdotel blog ]
