Yahoo music is opening up its artiste pages to content from other sites such as youtube, itunes etc.
Yahoo is opening its Artist Pages to others’ content.
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Yahoo plans to fire up a revamped version of its Artist Pages on Tuesday, a service that lets people add content from iTunes, YouTube, and other sites to the Yahoo Music site that previously only had Yahoo’s own content.
The site publishes information including tour dates and music videos for more than 500,000 artists and lets people download and purchase music. Now the site will blend in information from non-Yahoo sources, the company said, part of an effort to make the site a better starting point.
First come modules from iTunes, Amazon.com, Last.fm, Rhapsody, Pandora, YouTube, and Yahoo itself, Yahoo said. (Last.fm is a part of CBS, which also owns CNET News.) Later, people will be able to create their own artist pages.
The move is part of the Yahoo Open Strategy, which aims to open Yahoo’s properties up to others’ applications and content and to make it easier for other Web sites to incorporate Yahoo’s content. With YOS, the company hopes to increase the number of Yahoo users and the amount they use Yahoo’s services.