DNP - Yahoo seems to not want to lose competitiveness with Facebook. The reason, in the near future, Yahoo is rumored to be launching a service called Y Connect. The service is similar to Facebook Connect, a portable identity management, which integrate Yahoo content on third party sites.
Utilizing Y Connect, users can share data about what she was doing on the Internet with their contacts on Yahoo. How, the service will share information on a user's contacts via Yahoo Pulse, the flow of thread-based activities that have been owned by Yahoo, which is similar to Google's Buzz.
As quoted by Mashable, October 18, 2010, information was first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal. Mentioned, Y-Connect will be announced officially by the end of the year. However, there is no further information about the Y-Connect in addition to helping the advertisers to track user activity and interest in them, just as Facebook Connect and the Open Graph.
As is known, later, Yahoo is trying to bounce. For example, by improving the search feature on their web portals such as that recently conducted. With Y-Connect, expected traffic to their sites can be more upraised. Additional traffic is essential in critical times like this. Moreover, Yahoo is now reportedly trying to escape from the trials conducted by the AOL acquisition, one of their competitors.
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