Following in the footsteps of AOL earlier that week, Yahoo on Friday talked about its plans to open its online services to third-party developers.

Yahoo calls it the Yahoo Open Strategy, or YOS for short. The mission is to “deliver open, industry-leading platforms that attract the most publishers and developers.”

The YOS platform aims to harness Yahoo’s audience of a half a billion users per month. The plan is to keep open Yahoo’s composition repositories to the

innovations of the developer community. Yahoo first announced the initiative in April, calling it a major rewiring of Yahoo that blows the doors wide open.

“Yahoo is trying to position itself as a distribution vehicle for third-party composition,” said Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence. “This is not a break with anything or a change of direction, it’s just a continuation of what they have been talking about for a few […]

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