Yahoo to bring Facebook, Twitter on Yahoo mail

Trying to make Yahoo Mail more interactive, give users a social experience and stay with the people they care about most, Yahoo plans to integrate with Facebook and Twitter by 2010 end.

Silicon India on Monday, quoted the Senior Vice President, Consumer Products, Yahoo, Bryan Lamkin, as saying that, “With the integration of Yahoo and Facebook, we can enable users to share meaningful content with their friends.”

Yahoo’s Facebook Connect integration will give consumers richer experiences on Yahoo!, including in Yahoo! Mail and on properties like Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, and Yahoo Finance.

It would allow them to connect with Facebook friends on Yahoo, view a feed of their friends’ related activity on Yahoo, and share content – such as photos from Flickr or comments on news stories, with all of their friends on Facebook, Yahoo said, adding that the content that consumers share with Facebook friends would then create a loop that drives visitors back to Yahoo.

It is being speculated that the partnership will not only help Yahoo users, but would also allow Facebook users to access their stream and update their status from the Yahoo homepage, provides ‘Share on Facebook’ options across the Yahoo network, and allow Facebook to access Yahoo Contacts.

People who use Yahoo and Facebook, according to Yahoo, would soon be able to share updates across both networks, creating a richer and more relevant social experience by connecting the broad range of Yahoo content and services with their friends on Facebook.

Yahoo is also trying to make mail more secure, safe and personal by blocking 300 billion spam messages every month.

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Flickr Updates Its Search Feature

Flickr is one of the largest and most used photo sites, but its search function hasn’t always been the most intuitive. This week the company announced a noteworthy redesign that makes searching for photos easier.

Forstarters, the new “View” control (located at the top of the page, just below the search box) will display results in a thumbnail gallery view across different sizes and formats (small, medium, detail, slideshow). As Flickr’s blog states,”both small and medium views have an ‘i’ icon on every thumbnail.” Clicking on it will generate a full-sized image of the photo, which means you no longer have to navigate away from the page to get up close and personal with your favorite photos.

Flickr has also added a new sidebar with links to groups, photographers, tag clusters, and more. All in all, a much-welcome set of tweaks.

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