Yahoo! has been making plans for sometime to allow developers in and help build software based on a the Yahoo! platform.
On Tuesday the “rewiring” will start. Developers will now be able to create applications to work with many of Yahoo!’s current line-up of software, like Mail and Search. New capabilities will be built into the site, like being able to track your “friends” pictures and activities.
Some would say Yahoo! is getting into the game too late. MySpace and Facebook, sites who dominate in social networking, already have millions of users and thousands of developers working off their respective platforms.
Yahoo! does already have a tremedous user base, going back to the days of the site just being a search engine. As long as a user logs into Yahoo! the site can then track how they rated a book or movie or when they add pictures and send that information only to people who the users says is a friend.
Although many companies have similar types of sites that allow people to share photos, ratings of movies, e-mail, etc, Yahoo! hopes to put this all under the same platform, namely Yahoo!. This would help drive traffic to the site, which inturn would help the sale of advertising and other sources of revenue for the company.
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