2008-04-26

Y!Open a Social Network from Within Yahoo!

Yahoo is transforming itself into an open and social platform from the ground up. It will open up assets in a way never done before, making the consumer experience social throughout and provide hooks to developers.
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Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out

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The first example of Yahoo's new openness is SearchMonkey, which was first announced in February. SearchMonkey lets developers build data services for modifying the presentation of search results.
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"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Balogh proclaimed. The front page of Yahoo, mail and other properties will be transformed.

Yahoo has 10 billion latent connections across its properties, such as mail, messenger and fantasy sports, Balogh said.

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Yahoo's new architecture, called YOS (Yahoo Open Strategy) proves that the Internet is made of tubes.

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The front page of Yahoo, mail and other properties will be transformed--for example, the mail welcome page will surface messages more relevant to users and the experience will be contextualized.

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