Yahoo making new Facebook connections - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday it will soon integrate
Facebook Connect into its many Web sites, allowing users to monitor their Facebook feeds while surfing the company's sites.
It will also allow users to opt to have their Yahoo activity shown on their Facebook news feed.
Facebook users can already access their feeds on Yahoo’s homepage, and share some specific Yahoo content on Facebook. The new policy expands this to other Yahoo sites, including Flickr, as well as its Sports, News and Finance sites.
The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital blog reported the moves are part of a massive social networking update dubbed "Project Rushmore."
It said similar changes could follow involving
MySpace, citing unnamed sources.
The New York Times reported that no money is changing hands in the Facebook-Yahoo move, with the companies instead getting a broader reach for their products.
“There is lot of potential future integration work we can do,” the Times quoted Yahoo spokesman Jim Stoneham as saying, adding that he described the arrangement as a “very deep long-term partnership.”
The changes are expected to be in place in the first half of 2010.