INTERNET giant Yahoo is secretly developing a social networking service to rival Facebook and MySpace.
A Yahoo employee let the cat out of the bag by mistakenly emailing a New York Times reporter inviting him to join the unannounced service called Yahoo Mash.
Journalist Brad Stone said on his New York Times blog that a Yahoo employee had sent him an email saying he had set up a profile for Stone. After Stone clicked on an email link to visit the profile, he couldn't get past a login page. Yahoo reportedly told Stone that Yahoo Mash wasn't yet open to the public.
A Yahoo spokeswoman said that the service was at an "alpha" stage.
Yahoo's $US1 billion ($A1.2 billion) bid to buy Facebook was knocked back last year.
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A Yahoo employee let the cat out of the bag by mistakenly emailing a New York Times reporter inviting him to join the unannounced service called Yahoo Mash.
Journalist Brad Stone said on his New York Times blog that a Yahoo employee had sent him an email saying he had set up a profile for Stone. After Stone clicked on an email link to visit the profile, he couldn't get past a login page. Yahoo reportedly told Stone that Yahoo Mash wasn't yet open to the public.
A Yahoo spokeswoman said that the service was at an "alpha" stage.
Yahoo's $US1 billion ($A1.2 billion) bid to buy Facebook was knocked back last year.
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