Yahoo has officially opened its platform to developers. It’s all part of the search company’s vision for a more open Yahoo that leverages outside innovation, unlocks the potential of social networking, and meshes the Yahoo experience with other sites to bring viewers the best of the Web.

That’s the vision. And Yahoo has taken one more step toward it by making its tools and documents available to developers to build applications for a more customized network.

According to

Jay Rossiter, senior vice president of Yahoo Open Strategy, the most obvious impact will be the social aspects. At a high level, he said, Yahoo is rolling out a social platform that will draw on the hundreds of millions of connections on Yahoo — everything from random encounters with someone who commented on the same photo as you, to connections with friends who know nearly everything about you.

“By using the social […]

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