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Ian Lamont writes “Yahoo has announced it is further opening its Web platform to developers and moving closer to a Facebook-style social networking concept. Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh made the announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo, and said that while Yahoo already has open APIs for some services, it will expand the open API concept to other areas and make it more consistent for developers, while boosting the ’social’ aspect of its services for its members. Analysts don’t expect this to increase Microsoft’s interest in Yahoo!. In fact, recent comments from Steve Ballmer suggest that Microsoft will give up entirely.”

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