Yahoo has made some powerful commitments to the future at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco. According to ars technica, “Ari Balogh unveiled “Yahoo Open Strategy,” the company’s umbrella term
for a couple of social networking initiatives in mind. At the heart of
the move, however, is an effort to unite the myriad of profiles users
have to create and manage across Yahoo’s various properties.”
But that’s not all, in addition to linking all their own properties – e-mail, Messenger, Flickr, Yahoo 360 and more – their involvement in Open Social means they’ll reach out to interact with other sites too. And the fact that they have 500 million users compared to Myspace’s 110 million and Facebook’s 60 million means that they might be the reason a lot of silos will come down.
CNET has coverage too.
