Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday announced that it will further open its Internet properties to Facebook, the world's largest social networking service.
Yahoo's extended integration with Facebook, expected to begin in the first half of 2010, will enable users to see their Facebook friends'
activities on Yahoo and share photos, article comments and other contents directly on the Facebook stream.
"We're doing this by deeply integrating a service called Facebook Connect across Yahoo properties worldwide," Jim Stoneham, Yahoo's vice
president of communities, wrote in a posting on the company's blog.
"With this integration, we are opening the door for two of the Internet's largest online communities to make it easier for people to stay
connected," Stoneham said in a separate statement.
The announcement represents Yahoo's latest attempt to ride on the growing popularity of Facebook, which now has more than 350 million users.
Yahoo in July unveiled a new homepage from which Facebook users can access their stream and update their status.