Yahoo adds facebook - goes completely customizable

Facebook with Yahoo. Sounds good ??!!. Or doesn’t ??!! Yahoo has recently come up with the “My Yahoo beta” (although it has been some time since the beta was released), there are quite some interesting features now available.

Simple things first, the whole page has been completely thrown open for customization. Not just the layout or the colors, but more than that there are widgets that you can add and play around with. Even with the colors and layouts, there are more choices available now than before. Personally, after trying out “citrus”, “blue” and “black” colors, I went a step ahead and into the “Passion” category, where I immediately found out “Football” customization. eeee . Yeah, there must be tons of football lovers using Yahoo for sure. Here’s a cool little screen-shot of “My Yahoo - Football” :)

You can add on to all these small little customizations here :

Going ahead, what was more interesting, was the modules that you can simply add to your page. I tried adding a few “Editor’s picks” - like “Salon.com”, “beauty blog”, et all !!. But the real piece of cake is “Facebook Integration”. It has become so monotonous now with everything happening around Facebook only, and I am trying to figure from a developer’s point of view as to why only facebook. Earlier, I actually wrote about the social web browser “Flock” too going for simple Facebook integration, and also about why Facebook is preferred over OpenSocial.

Anyways, here’s how easy it is to integrate Facebook on my yahoo page, and then just simply sit back and relax, and watch the facebook activities on your customized yahoo homepage only.

There’s a whole lot of activity going around at Yahoo these days, maybe after what happened earlier this year, with Microsoft trying to buy out Yahoo. Keep watching yahoo for further updates. I’m damn sure these guys will come up with something much cooler now.