• ReadWriteWeb, Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:48 PM

Further aligning its interests with Facebook, Yahoo's photo-sharing site Flickr has been integrated into the top social network. As such, users can now simultaneously post their photos to Flickr and Facebook. Aware of users' present sensitivity to privacy and sharing, only photos they set as "public" will appear on their Facebook Wall.

As it stands, "For a Web site dedicated to sharing photos with friends, family and the world, Flickr incongruously offers very limited external sharing of its photos," comments ReadWriteWeb. "We hope this is the start of more sharing options to come for the busy photo-sharing website, but given Flickr's track record with access to external sharing features, we won't hold our breath." In a blog post, Flickr notes that the new feature is powered by the recently revved-up Yahoo Updates platform, whose settings can be managed over on updated Yahoo profile pages found at the pulse.yahoo.com.

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