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"Yahoo is betting the farm on Facebook with the launch of a completely new and social way to consume news.\nThe new Yahoo News feature, whose release coincides with the launch of the new Facebook Open Graph, is an attempt to infuse social into the news curation and discovery process.\n\"Yahoo has always had amazing content and amazing editorial ability,\" Yahoo Director of Product Management Jonathan Katzman says. \"Now users can discover the content through their friends.\"\nOnce a user opts into the service (via the new Facebook permissions screen), she will be able to see what news stories her friends have read on both Facebook and Yahoo News. This simple two-way stream of information makes it possible to discover news content through your friends.\nThe crux of the Yahoo News-Facebook integration is the \"facebar,\" a row of your friends' faces that appear above any article you read. Clicking on any of these faces will bring up their recent activity. There is also now a \"You on Yahoo News\" widget that sits to the right of the content. This widget lets you see a history of what you've read and gives you options for removing different stories from your Yahoo News feed and turning the social features off altogether.\nThis is only the beginning for Yahoo, though. The digital media company is also integrating Facebook with IntoNow, a mobile app that \"listens to\" and tags TV shows (the company acquired IntoNow earlier this year). \"What we're trying to have happen, and Facebook is trying to do as well, is to be the river of information flowing around your activity,\" Katzman says.\nOther Yahoo products will roll out with Facebook integration in the next few months, thanks to the additions the social network has made to the Open Graph. Yahoo believes that Facebook integration is good for business as well \u2014 it will lead to higher engagement, the struggling Internet giant argues.\nThe new Facebook integration in Yahoo News is simple, but it's just the beginning for what the the company has planned. Facebook is about to become a whole lot more prominent on Yahoo.\n\n\nYahoo News &amp; Facebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou on Yahoo News\nThe \"You on Yahoo News\" widget lets you see and control your social activity on Yahoo News.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Activity\nYou can check your news reading history with the You on Yahoo News widget.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou've Read Content!\nA prompt warning you that content you've read has been added to your feed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrivacy\nYou can turn the social features on or off at any time\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\"Facebar\"\nThe killer feature of Yahoo's Facebook integration is the \"facebar,\" which shows what your friends have been reading just by clicking their profile photos.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, macida\nMore F8 Coverage:\n\nPrepare Yourselves: Facebook To Be Profoundly Changed \nFacebook Now Has 800 Million Users \nFacebook Timeline: Here\u2019s What It Looks Like [VIDEO] \nFacebook Open Graph Seeks to Deliver Real-Time Serendipity\nYahoo Hooks Up With Facebook for Socially Curated News\nFacebook Adds TV &amp; Movies to the Stream \nWhat Do You Think of the Facebook Changes? [OPEN THREAD] \nFacebook Reveals Major Updates at F8 [LIVE BLOG]\nFacebook Timeline Redefines User Profiles\nSpotify Comes to Facebook [PICS]\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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