Check out this studio jingle for Yahoo!'s 15th anniversary from www.lovejingles.com [via YPH]

This is Yahoo!'s latest move into social media landscape. You'll see real-time public Twitter updates on Yahoo! News, Finance, Entertainment as well as Search. Cool.

Not to be left out of the Twitter partnership spree, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is set to announce a deal with Twitter this evening to integrate the microblogging service across its properties worldwide. Yahoo users will now be able to access their personal Twitter feeds and update their Twitter status on Yahoo sites, including the home page (which already allowed users to edit their status on social networks including MySpace and Facebook). In addition, Yahoo says that all of its properties—including News, Finance, Entertainment and Sports—will soon feature “real-time public Twitter updates.” And like Microsoft’s Bing and Google, Yahoo will also add real-time Twitter results to its search engine.

[via PaidContent | image credit | Disclosure: I'm working at Yahoo!]

Following the launch of Yahoo's "status-casting" for its email service back in August 2009, Google will also allow its email users to their update status. Google could announce "the Twitter-killer" as soon as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The prompt reads, "let people know what you're up to, or share links to photos, videos, and Web pages." But every time a user updates their status, the previous update disappears into the ether.

The WSJ says the new feature will "allow Gmail users to view a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with." It will be tightly integrated with Google's video-sharing site YouTube and its photo-sharing site Picasa.

[via Business Insider]

When it comes to the online activity, the following is my daily habit in the morning: checking my emails, Twitter and blog's Dashboard.

Frankly speaking, even having two email accounts are too many for me. But those [Yahoo! Mail and Gmail] really help in term of personal email management. I am using Yahoo! Mail for all services' subscriptions and Gmail for self-hosted domain name's mail. I even often Twitter's private messages (called DM) to ping some friends.

Getting notice recently that Facebook is now planning to launch its own webmail service, I am a bit surprised. Do we need a new [web-based] email?

Oh wait. Might be Facebook is not targeting user like me. If Facebook is eyeing common users, instead of a user like me, so it does make sense. Why? Because Facebook is becoming less relevant for me. I refuse to even use Facebook for message things.

With so much excitement around the device, the disappointing part is that though a week has passed since we saw the first iPad unit, Google Images still has no clue about the existence of this Apple device.

     

Facebook is now the fourth largest source of traffic to news and media sites, according to data crunched by Hitwise. "I always knew it would happen, but not this quickly," my friend Alan Soon wrote.

Yahoo! Meme just updated and tweaked some features as below:

- a new popular page with more content and options! (Yep, finding the best reposts of all time is now wonderfully uncomplicated). 
- the omnipresent dashboard (now you can post from anywhere inside meme!). 
- dozens of design and interface tweaks and changes (find all the changes, we'll give you a bone).

[Disclosure: I am working at Yahoo!]

GigaOM wrote an interesting piece about Yahoo's social web strategy for 2010, based on interview with Cody Simms (Director of Product Management for the Yahoo application platform) and Chris Yeh (head of the Yahoo developer network) recently.

Some key points:

Yahoo wants to aggregate its users’ activities from around the web. The Facebook Connect integration is the first in a string of coming deals with other social sites.

What about integrating with Yahoo’s own services? Yahoo Updates would be the center of Yahoo’s new open social strategy, which consists of activity streams shown in Yahoo Mail, on its front page, in Yahoo Messenger clients and on its toolbars.

Right now the people you see in your Updates are those with whom you have explicit Yahoo Connections. Next the company will add in your Mail and Messenger contacts.

Yahoo plans to start allowing comments on its incredibly popular News, Finance and Sports sites.

[Diclosure: I'm working at Yahoo!]

After more than 2.5 years working as a full-time blogger and running a Jakarta-based blogging company called Asia Blogging Network, now I'm joining Yahoo! I was recently appointed as Country Editor for Yahoo! Indonesia, and will be based in Singapore for 6-12 months while setting-up Indonesia's office.

Why did I accept this offer? Of course, it's so challenging. This role is also still in-line with my passion: engaging with online content and community. My responsibilities including to engage and work with local content partners as well as writers and bloggers. It means that I will keep engaging and meeting with all of you, my fellow bloggers and readers :-) As the role's name suggests -- the Country Editor -- I will be much more working on news, columns, blogs etc for Yahoo! Indonesia site.

After left Tempo --Indonesia's most respected news organization-- more than two years ago, it's nice that finally I will return back to the newsroom. This time Yahoo!'s newsroom. Despite I can't blog for CNET Asia and SlashPhone (including PhoneMag and iPhoneBuzz) or contributing tech articles for The Jakarta Post anymore, but I will keep blogging for my personal blogs as well as greeting and seeing you through Twitter, Facebook or some other social media accounts. I will be starting my Yahoo tenure next week. Wish me luck with this new venture.