Yahoo and Facebook have joined hands to make Yahoo a more social platform. It seems that Yahoo is always playing catch up with Google now, and instead of creating a rival for Google Buzz, Yahoo has decided to make a partnership with the master of Social Networking, Facebook.
Yahoo accounts will be linked to Facebook accounts so that Yahoo mail users will be able to see friend’s Facebook updates without having to sign in to Facebook. In much the same way that Google Buzz in integrated into Gmail, Facebook status updates will be integrated into Yahoo Mail.
“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. Starting with Facebook, we are bringing all of these elements together to give people one simple, trusted place to share information and connect” Cody Simms, Yahoo director of social platforms.
The new features will be rolled out in the next few days. Finally there is a new reason to fire up that old dusty Yahoo Mail account again.
