Yahoo! Mail Increases Integration With Facebook

-Yahoo! Logo-Yahoo! continues to increase their level of integration with Facebook, with the latest implementation enabling users to update their Facebook status from Yahoo! Mail as well as view their contacts profile photos when they’re emailed. While these new features are only being rolled out to a few select markets initially, it will be pushed out more broadly over the coming weeks and months.

Recently, Yahoo! launched the ability to import your Facebook contacts’ email addresses through their contact importer. This is a simple addition but will most definitely be a welcomed feature by Yahoo! Mail users who also happen to be Facebook users. This integration is through a special partnership between the two companies.

One has to wonder if Yahoo! happens to be one of those potential partners where Facebook intends to grant access to your data without separately filling out a form. Then again, I can’t think of any circumstances in which I’d want my information automatically granted, but we’ll have to wait until Facebook announces these partnerships at f8.

For now, we’ll have to rely on basic Facebook Connect implementation such as the integration now provided by Yahoo! Mail.

Yahoo! Mail Integration Screenshot

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7 Comments »

  1. wha up with it!!!!!11

    Comment by cardedra jackson — March 30, 2010 @ 6:54 am

  2. Hmm…Ymail take FB..

    Comment by bee — March 31, 2010 @ 8:20 am

  3. Email services are also going more social. With launch of Google Buzz and Yahoo's collaboration with Facebook

    Find more information about this here http://www.synapseinteractive.com/news/yahoo_mail...

    Comment by smo — April 6, 2010 @ 10:46 pm

  4. Actually, I think this is quite a clever move. Facebook is the first of other social networks they will be able to integrate with. Twitter is certainly coming next. That way, they can allow users to stay on yahoo sites and still follow whatever social network is trendiest at the time, bucking any variations in popularity of the different services.

    Comment by Example — June 7, 2010 @ 6:03 am

  5. I need to know how to get out of the application. I DO NOT want my facebook comments going to my yahoo mail. How do i cancel it? Please let me know!

    Comment by Harold Clark — July 21, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

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  7. That's cool lets see how it works

    Comment by deepak — June 22, 2011 @ 8:14 am

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