Yahoo adds SmugMug support!

Yahoo! in cloud OR Hadoop? (Яху в облаках) by Alexander & Natalie
tl;dr: Yahoo adds SmugMug support to Profiles. Windows Live coming. Lots of other services, too.
Wow, what a pleasant surprise! Woke up this morning to this story on TechCrunch about 20 new services they’d added to Yahoo Profiles (here’s mine). Lo and behold, SmugMug is one of them! In fact, in Yahoo’s blog post about the new features, SmugMug was the one mentioned for photos. Cool!
As far as I know, we haven’t talked to Yahoo about this at all – which is part of what makes this so great. Microsoft was supposed to have rolled something like this out to Windows Live profiles awhile ago, but I still haven’t seen it drop. We’re very excited about that, too, but the two company’s approaches were very different: Microsoft came over, chatted with us about the product, then had us sign a contract to participate. That was months ago, and I have no idea when it’s actually coming. Yahoo, on the other hand, seems to have just built it and shipped it.
I can see the arguments for both approaches: Microsoft is probably being extra careful about privacy, and working through their internal rules and regulations about re-using user generated content. Yahoo, on the other hand, is scrambling to catch up now as the underdog. I assume Yahoo realized that SmugMug already has strong privacy controls around our feeds and simply hit the gas – full speed ahead.
Either way, what’s especially heartening is the number of sites, services, and pieces of software that now support SmugMug. At The Crunchies last week, we weren’t nominated (we won for Best Design last year), but it still felt like we were winning – many of the winners use or integrate with us: Google Reader, Windows Live Mesh, Cooliris, lots of companies using Amazon Web Services, lots of apps on the iPhone 3G, and FriendFeed. Very cool.
(And all of that despite what we *know* is terrible and/or nonexistent documentation around our feeds. Yes, we’ll work on that.)
Don't forget that there is a SmugMug plugin for Windows Live Photo Gallery that was just released in January :-). So I'd say that there is already support for SmugMug in our WIndows Live Products and getting the support on profile will be even better.
I don't much use the Yahoo services, and have not even looked at Windows Live yet (sorry Omar, but thanks for "Send to SmugMug" :-), but it's great to see so many services making SmugMug easier to access and use.
I'm a mesh users to sync my docs between three locations, but how is mesh working with SM?
Are you talking to TiVo? I would love to be able to view my SmugMug account from my new TiVo HD box.
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These are very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Don, long time smugmugger and follower of your blog.
I second what Steve is asking… any chance SmugMug is gonna show up on Tivo HD, like Picassa and Photobucket? Based on my internet searches, I'm not the only one eagerly hoping for it.
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FeedBurner has a Photo Splicer feature which lets you auto-insert your latest photos into your regular site feed. Currently, they support Flickr, BuzzNet and Webshots. It'd be great SmugMug were one of the options there, too.
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I have to admit it by I haven't used any of Yahoo!'s services in a very long time. I went over to the "dark side" (ie Google) and have forgotten that Yahoo! provides a lot of good stuff too.
Congrats. That is a great development. Hope to see more of your services endorsed and used by more people.
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