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By: Freddy

Freddy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:16:17 +0000

This app much better than yahoo and was done long before

By: shay

shay — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:38:03 +0000

Isn’t it just like 8hands?

By: My starting point @ Yahoo! «

My starting point @ Yahoo! « — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:08:47 +0000

[...] at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. One of which is the new Yahoo! oneConnect (read more on TechCrunch) and read what many others wrote.. [...]

By: Silicon Moon

Silicon Moon — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:39:39 +0000

Yahoo oneConnect, Fidgt and others…

Yahoo! announced their oneConnect service that the World Mobile Congress yesterday. Similar to various other players, they are aggregating your email and social network contacts into one application on the mobile phone.

This is exactly like Fidgt, a…

By: Ned Hayes, WhitePages.com

Ned Hayes, WhitePages.com — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:08:12 +0000

The concept is pitch-perfect for the moment — get your social data anywhere you are — social is mobile now, that’s clear.

I just have my doubts that Yahoo really groks how to continuously engage the mash-up world, where every new app changes the landscape, and every new kind of social activity is an instant addition to the feed.

oneConnect has the same kind of potential that Yahoo Pipes did — to be your one-stop shop for weaving together every thread of social interactivity into one great canvas.

But we all know that Yahoo sadly let Pipes linger without a real set of support vehicles, giving an opening to other mash-up engines like Popfly, etc., etc. I think that Pipes could have been more — might even be more in the future — but Yahoo hasn’t shown they can execute with a real mash-up platform play.

At WhitePages, we’ll be excited if they CAN get it right, because that would open up a whole bunch of new possibilities for our users and for contact information in general. C’mon, Yahoo — get it right!!!

By: dave

dave — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:24:14 +0000

the guys at zyb.com already have this partially on the web via a sync tool and 10 meters away from yahoo’s 100 m2 stand in barcelona they are launching the Social Phonebook from their 10 m2 stand. seems to be very similar to yahoo oneConnect - looks like yahoo checked zyb, plaxo, and jaiku out and got heavily inspired

By: Trey

Trey — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:43:54 +0000

Maybe I am just overlooking something, but how can this app get the facebook data without running a script? I thought this kind of data wasn’t coming out of FB via the API…

Somebody help me out here please!

By: Omer Gulzar

Omer Gulzar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:34:16 +0000

we would be seeing a simillar app in google mobile software

By: Abhilash Ravishankar

Abhilash Ravishankar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:49:34 +0000

Doesn’t this remind anybody of Jaiku?! (now part of Google)
oneConnect looks like a merger of the Jaiku mobile app and its web service.

The Jaiku mobile app had the contacts feature.
The Jaiku web service allowed you to add feeds from Flickr etc on to your stream.

Now that Jaiku is under the Google umbrella, can we safely assume that Google is cooking something similar?

By: b

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:31:57 +0000

yahoo, quickly port to the iphone…yahoo, quickly port to the iphone…yahoo, quickly port to the iphone…yahoo, quickly port to the iphone…

maybe that’ll get thru.

By: James

James — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:12:46 +0000

It will be interesting to see the effect, 18 months out, that oneConnect and similar product/services have on the various sources being aggregated. Sure, there is a big difference today between LinkedIn, Digg, Facebook, and Flickr, but those differences will start to dilute in an aggregated environment. Sustainability and valuation are bolstered by posters and retrievers frequenting the same domain. It’s been about eyeballs congregating. Once the posted content is aggregated, the retriever can fish info from afar. Eyeballs become disjointed. What happens then?

By: YDRIVE

YDRIVE — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:15:34 +0000

With this, Yahoo! is heading in the right direction, definitely. This is a good one. Coincidentally this’s what we’ve been developing also, for webtop and desktop remix, as the user’s personal digital library.

By: Associated Knowledge

Associated Knowledge — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:04:15 +0000

The Doldrums…

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By: No Surprise

No Surprise — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:10:24 +0000

@18 is spot on here… Yahoo isn’t being innovative as they have copied numerous services that are already live with a unified communications service.

OneConnect isn’t innovative, and it isn’t a product yet. This isn’t to say it won’t have value, it will. Let’s not give Yahoo! too much credit here for copying existing services.

Good luck to Yahoo! with oneConnect.

By: techyob

techyob — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:46:56 +0000

This is great - and they didnt need to invent a mobile operating system to do it.

By: Eduardo Sciammarella

Eduardo Sciammarella — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:18:21 +0000

We launched this product last May as Fidg’t. We believe that the unified social address book on mobile devices is the new browser. Let the games begin. =)

By: Marzipan from Toledo

Marzipan from Toledo — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:10 +0000

PULSE?

did plaxo not trademark that ? sucks for them

By: gw

gw — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:54:48 +0000

@troll 17. Who gives a shit, grow up and stfu. Loser.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:40:50 +0000

It’s amazing a company can launch a set of screenshots and a description and call it a “product”.

Yahoo has had some good “ideas” lately — especially from the Connected Life group — but their problem has always been execution. Remember Panama??

By: Troll

Troll — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:39:38 +0000

there’s now 12 TC sponsors on the right? ughh

too many, it looks overtly spammy.
i don’t even look there no more - info overload.

the magic number, i feel, is 6.
6 isn’t too crowded…and it’s easy on the eyes.
with 6, i actually took the time to read/learn about the logos/companies.

By: RealScrappy

RealScrappy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:09:14 +0000

I tried to install Yahoo Go 2.0 for my Treo (3.0 does not yet support the Treo)
and I couldn’t for the life of me find where to do it. Google yields lots of links saying “Download Go 2.0″ but they all land on the /go page, which is only 3.0.
Anyone tried to do this since 3.0 came out?