tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5361389041945562785.post-67162566420164978322008-04-26T22:01:00.003-04:002008-04-26T22:08:03.862-04:00Yahoo Inc. plans to make its Web site a social hub by hosting applications from other online services, part of the Internet pioneer's effort to spawn more advertising opportunities.<br /><br />"We are going to rewire the entire experience at Yahoo to make it social in every dimension," Ari Balogh, Yahoo's chief technology officer, said Thursday at a "Web 2.0" conference that drew a crowd of more than 1,000.<p></p><p> The more open platform copies a concept that already has been embraced by Internet search leader Google Inc. and a variety of online social hangouts, including Facebook Inc. and News Corp's MySpace.com.<br /><br />Yahoo's new look will give its roughly 500 million users greater flexibility to customize Web pages. They will be able to pick from a variety of mini-applications, known as "widgets," and plant them just about anywhere on the site, including their personal version of the front page.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It will be interesting to see if they can pull this off, hold off Microsoft's bid, and compete without copying Google... more at</span> <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080425/D908IEU00.html">apnews.myway.com</a><br /></p>PolarSharknoreply@blogger.com