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Yahoo Expands Integration With Facebook

Yahoo Expands Integration With Facebook

Yahoo Inc will let users of its email, photo-sharing and other online products link their content and activities directly into Facebook, the world’s No. 1 Internet social network.

Yahoo’s support of the Facebook Connect service, which it said it expects to begin in the first half of 2010, represents an important move inYahoo ’s efforts to tap the popularity of social networking and underscores the growing clout of Facebook, which now counts more than 350 million worldwide users. Earlier this year,Yahoo allowed users to preview messages from their Facebook friends directly on the Yahoo homepage, as part of a broad revamping of the Yahoo front page. Wednesday’s announcement takes the integration between Yahoo and Facebook a step further, by automatically pushing activities performed on Yahoo sites, such as photos shared on Yahoo’s Flickr, into the Facebook news feed. Yahoo said it expects that the content that consumers share on Facebook will drive visitors back to Yahoo . Facebook Connect, which was introduced last year, provides a universal ID that lets people automatically log on to participating sites with their Facebook credentials. It also allows people to notify their Facebook friends about their activities on third-party Web sites. Yahoo’s move comes as the company seeks to revive its growth under the leadership of CEO Carol Bartz, who took the reins in January and announced a controversial deal to hand off the operation of its Internet search technology to Microsoft Corp in July.

Yahoo’s Newest Strategy: Lots and Lots of Facebook

Yahoo’s Newest Strategy: Lots and Lots of Facebook

With more than 350 million users, Facebook is winning the social networking race by a landslide. But another area they’re winning big (in large part due to that growth) is in portable identity, where their Facebook Connect platform competes with offerings from Google, Twitter and MySpace.

Today, Facebook is getting a massive new partner for Connect: Yahoo. The #2 search engine, which is also one of the world’s most visited Web sites, announced that it will be rolling out Facebook Connect on numerous Yahoo properties that in the aggregate represent tens of millions of users worldwide.

Yahoo says that Connect will be integrated on its Mail, News, Sports, and Finance sites, as well as Flickr, allowing users to do things like leave comments, share news stories, and view friends’ feeds by using their Facebook account on Yahoo. Like any Connect-powered service, Yahoo benefits by that activity being shared back on the Facebook news feed, which in turn drives traffic to Yahoo.

This is a no-brainer for Yahoo, who has been trying for years to make its services more social on its own. Now, they’ll start to see some of the benefits that smaller publishers have seen from Facebook Connect (more comments, extra traffic from Facebook, etc.) on a massive scale. The new features are expected to launch next year.

Facebook Is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic

Facebook Is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic

Between search engines and social media, there are a lot of different ways that people can get to your website. But which of these sources provides loyal users that come back to your site multiple times?

That’s the subject of a new study by ad network Chitika, who analyzed the browsing habits of 33 million unique users over the course of September.

According to their findings, Facebook provides the most loyal visitors, with 20% of those that originate from the social network in turn visiting the site they landed upon four or more times in a week. Among other social media sites, Digg traffic produced loyal users 16% of the time, while Twitter traffic was only good for 11% loyalty.

In the realm of search engines, Yahoo provides the most loyal visitors at 15%, followed by Google and Bing with around 12% each.

The finding that social sites provide stickier traffic isn’t surprising, but what implications do the loyalty rankings for Facebook, Digg, and Twitter have, if any? Perhaps that in the long-run, encouraging your visitors to share on Facebook might have the most value, even if it doesn’t provide the most short-term traffic.

That said, it’s easy enough to provide sharing options for a multitude of social media sites (case in point, this post!), so you can probably file this under the “nice to know” category of statistics and use your own analytics to gauge what is and isn’t working.

Yahoo!’s micro blogging service MEME

Yahoo!’s micro blogging service MEME

So actuality is addition micro-blogging account for peoples who adulation absorb beck their activity online, or you can say a new bazaar abode for some guys to get targeted leads :-P . Meme is still beneath action it is not even beta it is alpha version. Registrations accessible on requests yet, and anniversary user can allure 3 friends.

Peoples are adage it is cloned from Twitter, Able-bodied its annihilation like Twitter at all but abundant added like micro-blogging account Tumblr, and it’s a baggy carbon at that. It’s all about micro-sharing, sure, but that’s just about breadth the apologue ends.

What is Meme: A “meme” is frequently accustomed in the web as some affectionate of acceptable that spreads fast and draws everyone’s attention. Meme is alpha out of the oven and just accepting started with what Yahoo! intend to do. However, they acquire a few goals to admonition accrue them on track:

* Things acquire to be quick, simple and simple to do

* User should be able to allocation whatever affectionate of acceptable user advertisement or accretion in the web

* User’s posts should get about afterwards user accepting to be a allocation of any specific agreeable network

* User accrue the acclamation for user’s discoveries and creations

* User should calmly accretion what’s animation anybody else’s attention

Dashboard: afterwards accepting a contour on meme, this is what dashboard attending like. Like all added micro-blogging casework it shows all streams from peoples afterward you.repost this advantage use to re-post any column you like, from your accompany or added users as well. column calculation this is re-post counter, announce how abounding time column is getting posted. Yeah! attending like too abounding Chinese(I acclimated Google to construe their column and absolute this accent is Chinese) humans accepting fun about there.

Profile: and this is how profile page look like. Same thing here like all other micro-blogging services it shows about you and your posts.

Sharing Text (unlimited yet), Photos (from file or URL), Videos (only YouTube and Vimeo yet) and mp3 (direct URL) is also easy.

Ok, so far now that all I have founded from Meme. I will update if I found something more interesting about it, and if you made you mind to join it. Invitations available upon request below (-;