Yahoo has plans to establish a new way of viewing the contents from Facebook Inc. across its websites, according to people who are briefed on the matter. This plan aims to prevent users of Yahoo from defecting to the social network.
As a part of a partnership with Facebook that was announced last December, Yahoo will start allowing the users to be able to view their stream of Facebook updates, which Facebook calls the “news feed” from Yahoo.com and Yahoo Mail. The company will further allow users to post actions that they take on Yahoo like uploading a photo to Yahoo's photo service Flickr, back on Facebook.
According to the sources, Yahoo also plans to rename its existing Yahoo Profiles service, currently a hub where users can connect to other Yahoo users and can post information about themselves. Yahoo Pulse, as the service will be called, will offer tabs for various social networks. Initially permitting users to switch between the consuming updates, like links to articles that friends have read, from their Facebook and Yahoo networks according to the sources. Yahoo also plans to integrate other social networks too, they further added. Yahoo Pulse will also include a new privacy menu that allows the users to be able to manage who sees updates from which services, sources said. A spokesperson for Yahoo declined to give any comment.
As a part of a partnership with Facebook that was announced last December, Yahoo will start allowing the users to be able to view their stream of Facebook updates, which Facebook calls the “news feed” from Yahoo.com and Yahoo Mail. The company will further allow users to post actions that they take on Yahoo like uploading a photo to Yahoo's photo service Flickr, back on Facebook.
According to the sources, Yahoo also plans to rename its existing Yahoo Profiles service, currently a hub where users can connect to other Yahoo users and can post information about themselves. Yahoo Pulse, as the service will be called, will offer tabs for various social networks. Initially permitting users to switch between the consuming updates, like links to articles that friends have read, from their Facebook and Yahoo networks according to the sources. Yahoo also plans to integrate other social networks too, they further added. Yahoo Pulse will also include a new privacy menu that allows the users to be able to manage who sees updates from which services, sources said. A spokesperson for Yahoo declined to give any comment.
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