Friday, 25th April, 2008
Yahoo open strategy, A big giant social network
Yahoo announced a bold strategy to open its properties into a big social network. According to Yahoo's CTO Ari BaloghWe are rewiring Yahoo from the inside out with a developer platform that will open up the assets of Yahoo in a way never done before, making the consumer experience social throughout and provide hooks to developers
Yahoo open strategy will give a central profile to users, and will connect all the products of Yahoo like mail, messenger, sports. Yahoo open strategy will allow developers to create applications on the top of Yahoo products using open social.Whats interesting is that uers can add third party applications on any Yahoo page including the Home page.
This means all Yahoo products will transition into a big social network. Not social network exactly.. according to Balogh,
We are not creating another social network. We will rewire the entire experience to make it social. We don’t think of social as a destination but as a dimension
I am happy with this announcement, it will make social networking and third party application development more meaningful compared to the cluttered facebook.com.
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