Yahoo goes back to its roots

As a first step the company will be letting users pull in information to their Yahoo Mail page from other services and content companies, as well as exporting their Yahoo information to other destinations … Mr Garlinghouse said: “Social as a silo isn’t where we’ll be in a couple of years as an industry. Social makes things more relevant… “I own my social connections – not Facebook, MySpace or Yahoo. Our philosophy inside Yahoo is that this is ultimately your data; we are going to let you take it with you, let you have access to it in a very open way.” (emphasis mine)— Yahoo goes back to its roots