社交游戏巨头zynga公司目前正在为旗下游戏寻找多样化平台而不懈努力，之前zynga因为太过于依赖facebook平台而产生了诸位不利的负面影响。日前zynga公司正式和雅虎网站携手，允许游戏玩家通过yahoo网站（网站首页、雅虎游戏、雅虎通和雅虎邮箱）进行登陆和更新状态。

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这对于很多玩家，特别是雅虎用户来讲是登陆zynga游戏的一个良好的途径。但是从另外一个方面讲，这对于zynga来讲绝对是最利好的，可以更好地开拓zynga的游戏多样化渠道战略。

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In a prudent move to diversify its Facebook-centric audience, social game maker Zynga this morning announced a distribution deal with Yahoo that will allow game players to play games and update statuses from Yahoo’s homepage, Yahoo Games, Yahoo Messenger, and America’s most popular email service, Yahoo Mail.

To be nitpicky, Yahoo published the announcement, after Zynga CEO Mark Pincus denied it was in the works last week. There’s been no formal announcement on Zynga’s website yet.

That might give you the impression that Yahoo is the lucky partner here, getting access to Zynga’s popular Farmville and Mafia Wars games. But Zynga, much more than Yahoo, needs to prove to current and potential investors that it’s not at the mercy of Facebook. Already, Facebook has cut back on the viral growth of Zynga games by limiting updates and notifications that users had complained were too spammy.

Last week, Zynga came to a tense agreement with Facebook over Facebook’s plan to require Zynga game players to make payments with Facebook’s internal currency, from which Facebook takes a 30percent cut on all transactions.

Integration with Yahoo’s popular email and homepage seems like the most likely way other than a jillion Google ads to draw in people who don’t use Facebook, and who don’t realize there are games like Farmville they can play with old friends. It’ll be interesting to see if Zynga’s games are as ridiculously addictive on Yahoo as they are on Facebook. Do you Yahoo? If so, don’t make any plans for the next couple of months.