As the social networking gig continues to expand, Yahoo has made plans to jump into social networking by using its massive population of e-mail subscribers as a base for sharing information on the Web. The company plans to transform its 280 million e-mail users its new social network user base. Users will be able to exchange comments, pictures and news articles with others in their address books.

According to Yahoo, the program won’t expose a user’s contact list to the public, as was done by Google through its social networking application, Buzz. But unless a user proactively opts out of the program, those Yahoo e-mail subscribers will automatically be part of a sweeping rollout of features that will incorporate the kinds of sharing done on sites such as Facebook and MySpace…Read more

The Social Networking Conference ( www.SocialNetworkingConference.com ) is the industry’s leading business convention on the enterprise social networking space. It discusses business management, strategy and technology for both intra-corporate social networking as well as social media to the customer.
Speaking this year at the SNC2010, includes the likes of Cisco, Intel, The US State Department, the Jim Henson Company, Harvard Business School, Accenture, Los Angeles Times, Adobe, Comcast Entertainment Group, Yahoo!, and others. The 5th annual west coast Social Networking Conference on Thursday and Friday (June 17-18, 2010) at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. A special pre-event session is also set for June 16…Read more