Yahoo! Announces OneConnect at the Mobile World Congress

February 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments · gadgets and technology, software

Yahoo announced OneConnect an amazingly cool service today that looks like a truly killer mobile social connector. OneConnect will allow you to view and participate across social networks in a a way much like Jaiku does now - though it seems like it will work for most of your existing social services. It´s not ready for release quite yet and details of exactly how it works were hard to confirm, but here´s a video of what you can expect.

I´m very excited by this and see that Yahoo! has finally come forward with something exciting in mobile. Because the mobile is something you always have with you it´s truly the key piece in staying connected. That the OneConnect service will work with and outside the Yahoo! ecosystem is what makes it truly compelling. This application goes well beyond my notion of lifestreaming and looks like it will truly change the way in which we connect.

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3 responses so far ↓

1 Lifeblog // Feb 14, 2008 at 7:17 am

But, it’s good to see the heat getting turned up. I think there will be many ways to do this and everyone will be able to learn from those that come before them. There’s also a video (see below) showing what it’s all about. Link [viaatmasphere
2 The Mobile Gadgeteer mobile edition // Feb 14, 2008 at 8:54 am

[...] well. I was not allowed to video the service in action, but my buddy Jonathan Greene was able to capture some video of the software working on a PC monitor before anyone said video was not allowed. Yahoo oneConnect [...]
3 davidgp.com — “Hace tiempo estaba indeciso, pero ahora ya no estoy tan seguro” // Feb 14, 2008 at 12:52 pm

ya tenían toda mi atención. La aplicación promete mucho más, pero una aplicación nativa para s60 que acceda a Twitter es algo que llevo esperando mucho tiempo. Y voy a seguir esperando para ver si lo que ofrece Yahoo es lo que quiero. Vía:Atmaspheric | endeavors: Yahoo! Announces OneConnect at the Mobile World Congress.
4 Solving the mobile equation (yet again) « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior // Feb 15, 2008 at 2:19 pm

[...] announcement of their new mobile service OneConnect the answer to this? Not sure about that. I saw a demo video of the new service that is to launch in the third quarter of this year and although it combines all kinds of social [...]
5 Big Ideas // Feb 23, 2008 at 8:38 am

benefited from a year off before starting college and apparently, more and more students are of the same opinion. If this were to catch on, it’d be a large shift in the way we view higher education. Amidst all the Microsoft - Yahoo! turmoil, Yahoo!announced OneConnectat the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. It’s unclear what’s really going to launch, as the announcement didn’t come with a product release, but it looks promising. I certainly will be watching to see what comes out when the team’s ready to