As part of its Open Strategy, Yahoo starting today is letting users add updates from their friends based on their activities on 20 other services across the Web.
These updates will appear in a FriendFeed-like fashion on Yahoo members’ profile pages and in Yahoo Mail. Already, Yahoo users can get updates from friends who use Yahoo services such as Buzz and Yahoo Music (but not yet Flickr, oddly enough). Now, they can add activity streams from Yelp, SmugMug, Picassa, StumbleUpon, YouTube, Pandora, Goodreads, SlideShare, and more (see complete list below).
Back in October, when Yahoo previewed its Application Platform, the company described what it wanted to do with updates. We wrote back then:
Yahoo will let developers present their users with notifications that let them share their data back to Yahoo. For example, if their uploading photos off network, they can choose to send those photos to Flickr as well. The same goes for activity that occurs on sites like Flickr, Yahoo Music, message boards, Digg, or Facebook. Yahoo wants to provide a two-way updates platform that also pushes data updates back out to other services. So if someone does something on Digg, Yahoo can then inform a site like CNN of that action. It’s like Facebook Beacon but it doesn’t just drive data to Yahoo, it also syndicates data out to any number of sites. Also, it supports not just status-like messages but large data pushes (images, etc). All of the permission controls apply to these updates as well.
Here’s the full list of outside services that Yahoo now supports:
- Picasa Web Albums
- SmugMug
- Webshots
- Zooomr
- Furl
- Ma.gnolia
- StumbleUpon
- Blogger
- Bloglines
- TravelPod
- Tumblr
- Vox
- Xanga
- Last.fm
- Pandora
- Vimeo
- YouTube
- Yelp
- Goodreads
- SlideShare
Is delicious already integrated as well? What about Y! Pipes? Is this too little too late? Interested in your take on this, care to offer one?
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Any numbers on how many are using yahoo! profile ?
One might even say it’s Plaxo-like, since we launched the first webwide lifestream aggregator in 2007, months before FriendFeed.
Yes, after becoming notorious for spam and brutalizing your brand.
You seem like a great guy, but your organization has done nothing I know of to make amends for previous infractions of user trust and repair your brand.
Golden handcuffs? Earn out? Get out of there.
Well, at the moment, you can’t share Flickr, Delicious or Facebook yet. I don’t really use many of the other services. However, you can follow Flickr updates on their alternative social site of sorts MyBlogLog. I presume the two will eventually come together?
Where is Flickr?
Yahoo! is really stepping up.
…and yet, they still haven’t added friend notifications on yahoo video. I guess it’s fine.. it’s only been a year since their relaunch. Meh!
Yahoo! should try to acquire FriendFeed. It seems like it would be a good fit.
@Kuldeep & @Erick: Agreed. Where’s Yahoo’s strongest property, Flickr?
This is typical of Yahoo…the can’t even integrate their own services. Yahoo’s been making a big deal about create a new profile system to replace 360 and be more open. Most of this stuff can already be done on Yahoo.
Remember that thing called MyBlogLog? It already does all of these things. Just as Yahoo is getting rid of duplicate services like Yahoo! Photos in favor of Flickr, the are now create a duplicate of MyBlogLog minus the connectivity to blogs. It really makes no sense.
Good point, the product sounds solid but it’s yet another yahoo product
@Carl: You have a good point. Although unfortunately this will lead to even more layoffs, the reality of Yahoo! is that they have made a few acquisitions which have rendered current properties obsolete. Now they are faced with shedding the weight of duplicated products. Yahoo! should have redeveloped MyBlogLog instead of attempting to recreate yet another crappy product.
Or they should have just integrate MyBlogLog better into their system and used it as the new profile system. All they really need is to add a few more features like a blog capability and they have their replacement for 360. MyBlogLog is stable and reliable, unlike Yahoo’s red-headed stepchild known as 360.
If they are getting into the lifestreaming business, why leave out your own products like delicious?
Their new profile system is based on the technology used in Yahoo’s short-living Facebook imitator called Mash. But the new profile system has even less features than Mash. And this whole “smarter email” thing, what is that all about? They are going to duplicate even more features in my inbox? Am I going to have a profile and then have an inbox with the same info from my profile? I’m confused and me head hurts now.
Considering that you’re on the outside and guessing, who’s to say that this isn’t Yahoo! leveraging technology it already has like that of MyBlogLog?
As i suggested above, I also suspect the two systems will merge soon.
Maybe because I’ve been discussing the issue of why Yahoo doesn’t better integrate MBL into its service with a former MBL employee? Maybe because the new profile software is different that MBL?
Au revoir FriendFeed, it’s really just a feature, not a business.
Yeah, like a lot of stuff out there.
I noticed though that the system is quite limited still as it doesn’t allow you to add any plain blog rss.
Nice Move by Yahoo!
Nice job – great to see it out finally!