Yahoo goes down the social with oneConnect
12 February 2008
Yahoo goes down the social with oneConnect
Web giant Yahoo stepped up its move into the mobile space on Tuesday with a social network platform designed to give users a single interface to every online community.
The oneConnect platform, unveiled by Yahoo's executive vice president of Connected Life, Marco Boerries, plugs into every available social networking platform, such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn, and gives mobile users a single interface to interact with all their contacts.
"The problem we are tackling is how you keep up with all your contacts," said Boerries.
oneConnect is able to synchronise with social networking services automatically and deliver updates via SMS, email and IM. It also offers presence and location aware capabilities including a proximity pulse feature that allows users to keep tabs on their friends at all time using assisted GPS.
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