Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it will bring its oneConnect social address book application to Apple’s App Store to work on both the iPhone and iPod touch.
Yahoo’s oneConnect application lets users integrate contacts, send instant messages or SMS messages, and view their friends’ latest activity on social networks. What’s most compelling about oneConnect is that it doesn’t bog you down in solely Yahoo software. Instead, the service support for social networks like Facebook and MySpace.
oneConnect for the iPhone and iPod Touch is available now as a free download on the App store and Yahoo promised that more versions will be rolling out for other devices in the near future.
“No matches” when I search for “oneconnect” in the App Store on the iPhone.
it doesn’t work on the mobile store yet. Go to tinycrunch and grab the itunes link
David, I can’t find either. Either Yahoo is dragging it’s heals, or there was a fumble. Hmmm. This is not the way to bring new users into the fold.
I work with Xumii, so I’m biased, but I would prefer my social address book not to be tied to one of the major networks. Are they going to be open to adding other networks into it? How can it be my ‘one’ social address book without it?
Looks like it has made its way onto the iTunes App Store… but no sign on the mobile store.
http://phobos.a...970154&mt=8
I stand corrected, but it is not available from the mobile app store.
tinyCrunch has the correct link to the app.
What is tinyCrunch?
Pulse. Nice name. Haven’t heard that before!
I went to read the original article and it sounds a bit like the Unversal Profile System that Yahoo has been promising as a replacement for 360. Yeah, the one that was supposed to be out in the first quarter of this year.
And as of this moment, I do not see this app available yet. In fact, Yahoo doesn’t have one single application available on Apple’s App Store at all.
Carl. 360 never made sense to me. I always thought of it as cheap, half priced alternative to the major social networks. I DO like, however, the idea they are presenting here. To help put them all together. I personally like FriendFeed, but that still has growing to do.
Try this: http://phobos.a...970154&mt=8
Thanks…I was able to download it and will be testing it later. I actually like 360 a lot because it is far less cluttered than places like Myspace, but it has always been the red-headed step child of Yahoo. The software architecture was very closed and the couldn’t even reach their goal of integrating MyBlogLog with 360.
The Pulse function looks like something that Yahoo was testing on Mash. Maybe this is a good sign that Yahoo will finally have a good social networking tool, but they will need a good blogging platform to make it work.
I stopped using Yahoo a long time ago. Not because they are bad at what they do. But because their products never made me say, “Wow, that could really make my life/workflow better.” Maybe this app will mark a change. I really would love to see Yahoo start delivering some really great new services to help people integrate everything they are doing. Otherwise they will continue to create and market new services like 360, etc. that never really make a dent.
Use one of the direct links above, it’s there. So far it looks pretty impressive. Not expecting much, hoping for a lot from my former employer.
Huh. I wonder if they’ll get in trouble with Plaxo for using the word “pulse” as the activity feed label.
What!? No mention of Combo as the clear (albeit startup) competitor in this space? For shame….
Our native iPhone app comes out this month folks and it is going to blow OneConnect out of the water. Contacts, Content, Activity all aggregated into a slick UI, plus the ability to send out one-to-many file uploads to your accounts, messages, status message updates – Combo will be the meta platform to beat!
But I’m biased of course.
just go to techcrunch on your phone and click the link, it’ll automagically open it up in the appstore.
Will other social bookmarking sites follow?
I finally was able to get this app onto my phone.
But I’m starting to question the need for all these separate services to store my networking data(I’m already on FriendFeed). I understand it for routing purposes. And I understand the need to store data on the phone. But, is truly necessary for Yahoo to store my data(as mentioned in a short network accnt. in-app EULA).
glad…if it supports for facebook…
Pretty crappy product actually, at present state. It requires passwords (why not token based) for Facebook and others and after three tries to import contacts (which it does on the client side rather than a backend feature) it STILL has not brought in my Facebook contacts.
If you common contacts in your yahoo adressbook and facebook, only those are merged. Otherwise no new contacts are added from facebook to your yahoo ab. Only pulse is displayed for such contacts.
I have now deleted this from my phone. Thanks but no thanks yahoo.