Yoono, an extension built to enhance both the Firefox and IE browser experience that comes in pretty handy when you go on the Internet mainly to interact socially with your peers and friends, has just released version 6.1 of its add-on, and revamped the interface along with adding a couple of useful features.
I’ve been trying it out for a couple of hours now, and I have to say I’d already miss it if it were gone from my Firefox browser (which, admittedly, I use less and less thanks to Google Chrome). Yoono is essentially a browser sidebar that aggregates and centralizes your online profiles, including from IM tools like Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and AIM but also a wide variety of social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed and more.
The latest version of the extension, next to expanding support for Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace as well as the ability to easily share pages, images, or videos from your browser across all networks at once, boasts another useful new feature: real-time search. The search engine is powered by OneRiot, one of many trying their hand in this hot field but effectively one that does what it does very, very well.
Granted, this isn’t exactly a huge innovation (doing a search simply opens up a new browser tab with results from the OneRiot website), but people who already use Yoono will no doubt be pleased with the integration. Try it out and let us know what you think.
It is about time you spoke of them .. I actually use it more that Seesmic. it is very convenient to use.
It has some little bugs though and I never seem to get answers when I try and ask questions through their Twitter account.
I’ve been using Yoono for quite a while, and the latest build is great. There are a couple annoyances/bugs as OoTheNigerian mentioned, but I find that usually they’ll reply on Twitter (sometimes takes a while).
Hi Lisa. Thanks so much! We are always listening to our users online and noting every piece of feedback. Thank you for noticing our Twitter presence.
YooNO needs to change their name — who the heck thought of this name!? — YooNO
Are you kidding me?
I just cant take it now! When will these people understand that Making search engines is of no use when we already have so many!
Twitter will remain best real time search engine.
A twitter communities based startup http://tweetknot.com is also planning to launch real time search engine soon
Twitter certainly provides good real time results but the reason we chose to partner with OneRiot is they go beyond Twitter to give you better results. I’d encourage you to give it a try… I think you’ll see something different.
“the reason we chose to partner with OneRiot is they go beyond Twitter to give you better results.”
Or they are paying you money to send traffic to their site. No need to hide that fact.
Absolutely. Yoono is a funded business so we’re always looking for revenue-generating opportunities. But we won’t pursue revenue that takes away from our users’ experience. OneRiot improves our user experience and generates revenue for us. Win win.
Looks like an interesting tool. I will give a try. This service just looks like friendfeed browser version.
Thank you Robin for the post about Yoono. I’m the community manager there and I’d be happy to answer any questions about Yoono.
You can also reach me as @Yoono OR @YoonoSupport.
Thanks again!
Been using Yoono for months and, although it did have some hiccups since the new version, they were able to repair and it’s now doing very well! I’m loving my Yoono now.
This is the future of the web. Real time search on what YOUR interest groups are talking about on topics that YOU choose. Awesome!
Where is the money?
Thanks for the write up, Robin! We’re so thrilled about this partnership!
…and Mark, the secret with the name is to say it like you’re from Canada. Makes it all jingly – dontyoono?
More about the partnership here: http://bit.ly/Q6ig
Sorry, I meant Bill G! Bill G, you gotta go Canadian!
Amazing tool. I have been using this tool since the last 2 months. I needed a lightweight “one tool fulfills all my IM and social need” tool and yoono has turned to be more than capable – this after i tried trillian astra and meebo.
The only thing missing is skype integration.
But yes, can we have a better name place?
dear Yoono
How combine your application to my face book goup tell me !
I want to create group ; pesbuksunda community ras must diligent,
thanks