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Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

November 21, 2007

Yahoo! Is All Over Facebook

No acquisition rumours here, just Yahoo! APIs, and plenty of them. The ever-growing number of Facebook applications using our APIs is a testament to how easy it is to get our content on to other platforms.

One of the latest Yahoo! entries is Music Blogs, a slick Flash application that lets Facebook users search and play music from music blogs, post favorites to their profile, and share them with friends. Created by William White and Joseph Magnani of Yahoo!'s Media Innovation Group, the player has already received good press and has over 100 users on Facebook. Not bad for a week-old application.

The Thanksgiving holiday is a great time to sample some of those Yahoo!-based Facebook applications, some made by Yahoo! employees and some by 3rd party developers. Here's a, by no means complete, short list:

del.icio.us - Creates a bridge between your del.icio.us and Facebook accounts, letting you display your recent bookmarks on your profile. You can also display recently saved bookmarks in the News Feed.
My Flickr - Display your photos according to various criteria such as Recent Photos, Tags, Interesting, Date Range, Privacy Filter, Photosets, and sortings. Also displays your photos with different layouts.
zuPort: Flickr - Automatically imports your Flickr photostream keeping your sets, collections, tags, and comments intact. Customize to pick how many photos to show, layout, and more.
Upcoming.org - Shows you all the Facebook events you're going to, plus a list of the latest events in your city from Upcoming. Also updates your Facebook friends with all the public Upcoming events you're going to.
Yahoo! Music Videos - Browse and share favorites in your profile, and send dedications to friends. Automatically spotlights videos that match artists found in your profile and your friends' profiles (check out our "making of" blog post on this one).
Local Updates - Keeps track of where you've been, where you want to go, and where you're at. Uses Yahoo! Local.
My Weather - Displays the weather forecast for your city using Yahoo! Weather.
Yahoo! Finance - Add market data and dynamic charts from Yahoo! Finance to your profile
Answers - Lets you show you and your contacts latest questions, from Yahoo! Answers, on your Facebook profile.
Yahoo! Search - Get all the features of Yahoo! Search from your Facebook account.

Look for the Friend Folio application, winner of Bangalore Hack Day's "Most Viral" award, on Facebook soon.

Jason Levitt

Posted at November 21, 2007 10:25 AM | Permalink

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Comments

It is nice that Yahoo is working to be able to be accessed through other applications. the more exposure to Yahoo products the better than Yahoo can do, maybe be the great web service it once was. What about opening email to be able to be accessed outside Yahoo, like in Facebook.

In the other hand, unfortunately, Yahoo has not got their shit together and integrate their products to work together (like Google and AOL). Yahoo has killer apps but horrible service due to this lack of integration. why can I use/access delicious or Flicker through my Yahoo mail?

delicious could be a killer Digg like product, it they just get the right features in. Geocities used to be great, first of its kind, but once Yahoo bough it, it did not integrated well with Yahoo services and it was abandoned. geocities could of been what MySpace is now instead tons of research money comes to reinvent the wheal: yahoo 360 and Mash. isn't it cheaper to purchase already created solutions and integrate them together... well I guess I am not a genius.

I used to be a huge fan of Yahoo, but all this lack of integration and lagging behind is really sad

Posted by: Roberto Mora at March 10, 2008 3:07 PM

Yeah, the glaring absence here is email. But since that's the only reason I even bother with Yahoo (I've had my mail account for nearly 10 years now), essentially allowing me to bypass them via facebook might not be so smart. Or would it? An inconvenience like this, seeing as facebook is overwhelmingly becoming my all-in-one site for social networking, just might make me drop my yahoo mail, and yahoo, entirely.

Sorry they missed the boat to facebook, but in the interest of holding on to the last reason I have of bothering with them, maybe they ought to offer a compromise. At least until they can get back in the game?

Posted by: Eli Rector at June 22, 2008 11:02 AM