Yahoo implementing aspects of Facebook's social presence? Letting Facebook do what it does best? That's probably one of the best decision Yahoo's made in a long time...
At the end of 2009, Yahoo pledged that the company would be pairing up with Facebook Connect and utilizing Facebook's products as the world's most renowned social source. And this monumental step demonstrates the beginnings of this new relationship: Yahoo Contacts is connected to Facebook.
Yahoo makes it easier than ever to add your Facebook friends and their e-mail addresses to your Yahoo Contacts through Facebook Connect. In addition to G-mail and Hotmail accounts, users can now select Facebook contacts and import them from the landing page on Yahoo. After approval of the Facebook "credentials", the e-mail addresses will be transported to your Yahoo Contacts. What's more is that Yahoo will automatically scan the imports and delete the irritating duplicates that would be so tedious to sort through personally and individually. How's that for service? I'm impressed; Yahoo has really kicked it up a notch.
Rather than trying to replace the social media sites that have already been established, such as Facebook, Yahoo's e-mail, address book, and messenger application seems like it has to either keep up or just give up. As evidence of this, Yahoo also joined with Twitter to formulate even more unique products. The ever-elite Google is still trying to build its social graphs and create newer technological advancements.
Yahoo just needs to find a way to catch up...and it looks like it's taking the right steps!
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