OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
People who connect their accounts will be able to view their Facebook news feed on the Yahoo! homepage and in Yahoo! Mail and other Yahoo! sites and services.
People who create and share content on Yahoo! sites – including Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Flickr, and many Yahoo! entertainment sites, such as omg!, Yahoo! TV, and Yahoo! Movies – will be able to share their actions with friends back on Facebook. Yahoo! says that "Additional integrations will be ongoing."
According to Cody Simms, senior director of Social Platforms and Yahoo! Developer Network, "Yahoo! [is] 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.
"We think this offers great benefit to people across the web, and it's key to helping Yahoo! extend our reach and increase engagement." Yahoo! has also upgraded Yahoo! Profiles, a service launched in October 2008 that allowed people to manage their identity and activities across Yahoo! from a central location.
Yahoo! say it has "refreshed the [Yahoo! Profiles] experience to make its privacy settings easier to use and to give people a central dashboard to manage what they share on Yahoo! from the external social accounts and apps that they have linked to Yahoo!, starting with Facebook and with others to come later this year."
Yahoo! Profiles has been renamed Yahoo! Pulse "to better reflect its broader ability to manage Yahoo! settings, privacy, and account links. The updated version is available at http://pulse.yahoo.com.
Also to come later this year, Zynga, the company behind social games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars, has agreed to integrate its games into the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), making them available to people throughout the Yahoo! network.
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