Comments on: Yahoo Brings a Social Address Book to the iPhone

By: piratemonkey

piratemonkey — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:15:01 +0000

I have now deleted this from my phone. Thanks but no thanks yahoo.

By: Seema

Seema — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:30:46 +0000

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.

By: Raskin

Raskin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:42:45 +0000

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.

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:32:11 +0000

What is tinyCrunch?

By: Mario86

Mario86 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:04:43 +0000

glad…if it supports for facebook…

By: piratemonkey

piratemonkey — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:06:25 +0000

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).

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:03:11 +0000

Will other social bookmarking sites follow?

By: ahmedre

ahmedre — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:32:58 +0000

just go to techcrunch on your phone and click the link, it’ll automagically open it up in the appstore.

By: Raskin

Raskin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:43:46 +0000

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.

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By: =jason

=jason — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:54:28 +0000

it doesn’t work on the mobile store yet. Go to tinycrunch and grab the itunes link

By: =jason

=jason — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:53:42 +0000

tinyCrunch has the correct link to the app.

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:36:22 +0000

Huh. I wonder if they’ll get in trouble with Plaxo for using the word “pulse” as the activity feed label.

By: piratemonkey

piratemonkey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:09:03 +0000

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.

By: Carl Starrett

Carl Starrett — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:00:31 +0000

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.

By: Jeff Scott

Jeff Scott — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:58:08 +0000

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.

By: Carl Starrett

Carl Starrett — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:36:58 +0000

I stand corrected, but it is not available from the mobile app store.

By: piratemonkey

piratemonkey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:34:08 +0000

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

By: Carl Starrett

Carl Starrett — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:31:41 +0000

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.

By: John McCrea

John McCrea — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:31:32 +0000

Pulse. Nice name. Haven’t heard that before!

By: piratemonkey

piratemonkey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:30:37 +0000

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

By: Mick Liubinskas

Mick Liubinskas — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:27:40 +0000

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?

By: piratemonkey

piratemonkey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:25:26 +0000

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.