Yahoo’s social media strategy of lots and lots of Facebook is coming to fruition in a big way today, with the web portal rolling out deeper integration of Facebook within Yahoo Mail.
Last month, Yahoo started with its first Yahoo Mail/Facebook integration: importing Facebook friends’ e-mail addresses into their Yahoo contacts. Today’s two new features make Yahoo Mail a lot more social, though.
The first feature is simple but effective: the ability to update your Facebook status via Yahoo Mail. Once you log in with your Facebook account, you can simply choose to share your status updates via Facebook, in addition to your Yahoo network — it’s a straightforward status update box that appears in your inbox. The second feature is also cool: now whenever someone emails you that is also your Facebook friend, their profile picture will appear in the email.
As we highlighted in Google vs. Yahoo: Who Has the Right Social Strategy, Yahoo’s goals seem to be centered around partnerships and becoming a portal to the social media world. If Yahoo keeps adding features like these to its various other properties, it has the potential to become a social hub.
Does Facebook integration make Yahoo Mail more enticing? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Tags: facebook, social media, Yahoo
I received an email from the yahoo team asking if I wanted to accept an invitation to let a girl connect to me?
I received an e-mail from the yahoo team asking if I wanted to accept an invitation to let a girl who I have never heard of connect to me, have a look below I have not given the name of the person
{persons name}
would like to connect with you on Yahoo! so you can easily share each others’ Updates
{persons name} now getting your Updates. Once you accept, you get to share more Updates including:
• Photos, reviews, videos, status messages, and much more
•Contact information changes
•Automatic birthday reminders
now I am not on bebo or facebook so anyone know what this is all about – by the way there was a picture of the girl and she was really pretty but why would a stranger want to connect to me it seems a bit weird and what info would she receive about me if I accept the invite ?
It’s probably a fake profile. I’ve accepted those before and then they ask me to take quizzes and stuff where I have to give them my email/other info. She can’t receive any of your personal info unless you posted it on your profile or give it to her intentionally so there’s no real risk in connecting.
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what’s it called communication, yup go for the beaver
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do it
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cool beans dude
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