Yahoo does not want to stay behind other companies (like Google), and which is also catching up on technical issues and improvements to the user experience, this time it is reported that OAuth access through the API, has been released, but its use is also available without restriction, regardless if the account is free or premium. OAuth has become an ideal for developers because it is a useful resource, for example, can grant permission to third party applications with a single click. The advantages are many but to name one could access the entire contents of your account (email, calendar, notes, etc..) From another application, such as Facebook.

The message was given through the group of Yahoo Mail Developer Community, where he announced that the API is kinder now that you can use 100% even with the free accounts. This is good for the user base of Yahoo Mail, who could see new additions and / or applications compatible with Yahoo Mail accounts.

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In December 2009, Yahoo! announced it would make a great effort to integrate their products with Facebook Connect, ie get Facebook to connect with the largest number of applications outside the social network.

Yahoo! has announced that we can add the addresses of our contacts and Facebook friends to our agenda of Yahoo! Mail through Facebook Connect.

As you can see in the picture that heads this article, when we want to search contacts from our mail for Yahoo, one of the options will import your contacts from Facebook, along with the options you had before, such as importing from Gmail, Hotmail .

If you choose this option, you simply need to accept and authorize the connection between Facebook and Yahoo! with your mail account login and password for Facebook and quickly, your Facebook contacts will be in your mail from Yahoo!:

The efforts of Yahoo! to integrate their products with social networks are beginning to bear fruit and we are also aware that just added Twitter integration.

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Yahoo does not want to lag behind in innovation and adoption of new elements to the search engines. Now it has signed a pact between Yahoo and Twitter, allowing users of large Y!, See tweets in real time and access your account through the public feed available in each account. There will also be integration between Yahoo and Twitter to slightly higher levels, as other properties (Yahoo sites or services) will also contain the twitts users. These messages, no more than 140 characters will be indexed in near real time, so the results will be dynamic.

This is nothing new, since Google and Microsoft with Bing (who also signed a deal with Yahoo) have already begun to show information from Twitter, although this has not been adequately implemented outside the United States. Competition is coming into a new niche where style networks or Google Twitter Buzz will play an important role.

This amendment made to the Yahoo services from start to be today, but is likely to take a little more for certain accounts. So far there have been no details about the availability of integration with Twitter, but hopefully soon, all users have this option enabled.

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Doing a bit of memory, remember that Microsoft and Yahoo have signed a deal in which it was agreed that Bing, the form of the Redmond company, it would supply Yahoo search for a period of 10 years. In return, Yahoo would provide the infrastructure and logistics in the sales department, in addition to receiving 88% of the profits during the first 5 years.

This announcement was made public last December (2009) and although many took from that time as a fact, the truth is that trade regulatory commissions were debating the feasibility of such an agreement. Both bodies of the European Union and the United States extensively studied the implications of the alliance Microsoft - Yahoo.

Finally today gave its approval to the agreement, so the authorities have given their award for this union to operate formally. This means that Google will have a rival who is not very powerful but still has interesting things since there are contributions from two technology companies recognized. How successful will this union?, Nobody knows, but intense competition is expected to try to approach Google.

Although Bing has good things, especially in terms of user experience, Google is still king, and not just by name and being the monster he is, but by the quality results that are more relevant compared to other search engines . Whatever happens, it's good to know that Google will not always be the only dominant in the field of search.
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