Yoono, the social network browser plugin that relaunched in May, has entered public beta. The company has also announced a $4 million extension to their Series A funding round led by AGF Private Equity.
Yoono has existed for a number of years but has recently reinvented itself, offering a retooled browser sidebar for Firefox that serves as both a social network feed aggregator and a media-rich content sharing tool. The sidebar can be configured with a number of different widgets that include a Flickr photo viewer and a music player. You can see our review of Yoono’s relaunched plugin here.
The company intends to use the funds to help keep up with its growing user base, and would also like to expand the widgets available on its platform. Yoono faces competition from a number of other browser plugins like Minggl and from Flock, the web browser that has been tailored for social networks.
Nice.
yoono? did he just slap a bunch of keys when he made that name?
I wish i could score 4 million for my blog it would be the bomb.
http://www.crunchnow.com/
isn’t it similar to http://www.bloganywhere.com a venture of Sabeer Bhatia
The Yoono add-on has only 13,885 weekly downloads, but many of the popular technical add-ons (iMacros, Greasemonkey,…) have MUCH more.
Why all innovations are done by small companies first and bootlegged by Bigger players with deeper pockets.
Rajeev Vashisht
http://tekno-world.blogspot.com
No more social networks! No more social networks!
Seriously, no more social networks! Talk about a saturated market. VC’s love me-too portfolios.
High-technology encompasses so much more then social web applications.
Who are yoonoos main competitors? http://www.readtheanswer.com/index.php?RTA=web2
Someone please explain to me how these guys are going to make money? Basically if Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft doesn’t by them - what is left.
Who in the f**k would give this idea $4 million???!!!
Yoonos competitors are Minesweeper and the defrag tool.
OK, from its site it looks like a mash of Del.icio.us, an IM client and maybe Club Penguin. It is a cool idea, but it seems like it relies on a large audience of people (”folks”, if you use their language) who do nothing but browse all day.
Come to think of it, it’s aimed straight at TechCrunch readers.
Congratulations to Yoono! This is great news and I’m looking forward to what this will mean for the development of their platform.
Congrats to Yoono! It’s such a close and powerful team of people working together. I’ve been using Yoono for months and love its integration with social networks. I can’t live without it now.
Congrats to Yoono, Pascal is a top entrepreneur.
@sexypics and @dMix: we certainly understand the feeling of ‘no more social networks’. one of Yoono’s main benefits is to make it easier for you to manage multiple social networks in one place. We can’t stop the onslaught of additional SN’s but we can make it easier for you to get what you want out of them.
@Jason: stay tuned. I think even a cynic will be impressed with the revenue model you see in the fall.
@Paul: we kick Minesweeper’s *ss! every head-to-head comparison says so! seriously, a better way to think of Yoono is it’s what Flock should have been. with the Yoono sidebar installed no Firefox user will want to download Flock.
@ccscsc: we tested the theory that if you sat enough monkeys at a keyboard eventually they’d write a Shakespeare play. no Shakespeare yet but we ended up with our name and cool t-shirts!
Between the complet astroturf and the comments of Regan Fletcher (” we kick Minesweeper’s *ss! every” time?), it is no surprise that they will fail. This simply sucks, “our solution to too many SNs? Create another one that aggregates the rest”) These people are delusional.