Yahoo! oneConnect released – one app to rule them all

oneConnect

Today at CTIA Yahoo! released oneConnect for the Apple iPhone. The stand-alone app aggregates all your social networks into one place. Naturally, all your favorites are included: Facebook, YouTube, Dopplr, Twitter, Flickr, and Friendster, with more to come. The revolutionary social address book brings together your people, your life, and all the ways you communicate.

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Yahoo! oneConnect: Welcome to your social future

At the “Mobile World Congress” (MWC) in Barcelona (formerly 3GSM), Yahoo! announced oneConnect – a mobile app that integrates messaging and social apps. oneConnect will pull together contacts from your mobile phone, Yahoo! address book, and social networks, including bebo, Dopplr, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, hi5, last.fm, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. A “pulse” view will give you the most recent updates of all your contacts across all the social networks you care about. One app that can pull together all your friends’ activities from social sites and present it in a consistent way will strengthen Yahoo!’s position as the “starting point” on mobile phones.

Yahoo! opens up the mobile plaform and shows the future of Mail

At the CES 2008 Jerry Yang has demonstrated Yahoo!’s mobile open platform that enables developers, publishers, and advertisers to deliver mobile widgets that work in Yahoo! Go 3.0 and ultimately on any mobile browser. Yahoo! Go 3.0 has undergone a beautiful face lift on the UI, but its full power lies underneath: it is now open and lets the user access mobile services from either Yahoo! or third party developers.

Jerry Yang went on to demonstrate how Yahoo! intends to be the “most essential starting point for your life” and “take the complexity of the web and simplify your life through very powerful technologies.” Yahoo Mail serves as the hub, but the interface also includes third-party applications and social context.

Expect iPhone applications

iPhoneDevCamp is an upcoming un-conference to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for iPhone. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. By the completion of the weekend event, a number of iPhone-ready web applications and web sites will be launched to the public. The event will be held at the San Francisco offices of Adobe.

How to announce a SDK without having one

Steve has done it again! Following his announcement of the iPhone some weeks ago, without actually having an iPhone, today comes a deja-vu. At the opening keynote for this year’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, he revealed the secret behind the rumored Software Development Kit for the iPhone. And, there is none! Instead, the developers rely on the capabilities of the Safari engine to create third-party applications. The technology seems to be promising: Web 2.0, AJAX, security, and phone service integration. Still, it remains to be seen as how happy the developer community will be with the apps being sandboxed in the phone, providing just enough control over whatever Apple thinks is appropriate.