Yoono, a nifty IE and Firefox plug-in that serves as both a social network aggregator and media hub, is launching a desktop version of their browser sidebar. Yoono basically aggregates and centralizes your online profiles, including IM tools like Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and AIM as well as a wide variety of social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, Friendfeed and more. The startup also recently launched the ability to share pages and video/images in addition to real-time search capabilities powered by OneRiot.
The new desktop app, which is available for both Windows and Mac, has the same experience as the browser add-on except in a standalone product. The app is powered by Mozilla’s cross-platform xulrunner technology (the same technology Firefox is built upon), which is refreshing considering all of the Adobe AIR apps out there. Yoono says the decision to use xulrunner was made in light of its history as a Firefox add-on and the ease of porting.
Yoono has also released a new version of its Firefox plugin (which will be used in the desktop version), which integrates Twitter search and notifications when new results are available. The latest version also includes the ability to share web content simultaneously with MySpace. You could previously share to content with Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed.
Additionally, Yoono has added stream filters to help manage your stream. This tool lets you hide individual users in your stream, across services such as Facebook or Twitter or both. You can also hide updates from a particular Facebook app. For example, you could hide Mafia Wars updates from any of your friends (very welcome!).
i love yoono, but its not available for linux?
i need it for linux
I love it when supposedly tech-savvy people use phrases like “for both Windows and Mac.” Both. As if there are exactly two operating systems.
Sounds good. There’s a lot of these service’s out there, Digsby for one but for a while Yoono was a nice addition to my Firefox, infact it’s updates weren’t that intrusive, it was handy.
But i switched to flock now so yoono is rulled out because of it’s own feature’s but it doesn’t update me with bubbles the way Digsby and Yoono do, and frankly they’re handy.
I’m sticking to flock because of it’s blogging tools but i miss the live updates, i may get yoono now because i’ve long since turned off Digsby’s larger and sometimes anoying twitter and facebook feeds, just to damn sensative, and not easy to use.
Must list: Test new yoono desktop app.
Hi magesh,
For that first release of the desktop version we don’t have a Linux version. Since it’s xulrunner technically it’s possible but we had some bugs, and we preferred not to hold the release so Mac and Windows users get it right away.
It’s not clear yet if and when we will release a Linux version of Yoono Desktop, but you can still use the Firefox add-on version on Linux.
Thank you Leena for the post. We’re very happy with this release! Yoono users can connect with us @Yoono on Twitter.
I’ll give it a try!
Is there an iPhone app?
Hi Jack. Not at this time. You never know what the future may hold.
We’re very focused on improving our desktop and browser add-on offerings at this time and making them the best products in this space.
Pidgin – 15M RAM, Yoono Desktop – 56M RAM. Staying with Pidgin
Some of us need the “social profiles” stuff far more than the IM/Chat functions. I’ve liked what I’ve seen of Pidgin, but that app doesn’t cover the same ground.
You raise an excellent point but one that I think is missing something.
Pidgin is in a similar space as Yoono but not doing the same things. Yoono is a product that connects to dozens of services at the same time, acts as a social recommendation engine and even finds time to show you Flickr uploads from your friends with desktop notifications.
100 megabytes of ram in an industry where netbooks come with 2 gigabytes isn’t a large footprint and Pidgin is a product that may be great but is doing far less in the way of connections and functionality than Yoono.
Thank you for the comment though.
Yoono! Who knew?
Congrats to the team. This is an awesome product.
Hey Andrew. Thanks for the comment! I’ll be happy to cross the street and stop by CBS:I and show you a demo
huge potential
Just tried it and it just seems like another all in one client. The cool thing about yoono is their firefox addon which keeps everything quick and simple. They still need to work on the aim aspect though because I like to know if someone is on their cell phone or not.
There is Yoono then on the news side there is Red Panda (www.rdpnda.com) that displays automatically the news related to what’s currently browsed …