Yahoo! OneConnect Merges Mobile Email, SMS, IM and Social Networking

Yahoo announced a mobile app called oneConnect that will be available in the second quarter. OneConnect is basically a mobile web service that will let you manage your e-mail, IM, text messaging, and social networks all in one place. That means you just need to deal with a single contact list. You can quickly find a friend and send them a message in a variety of formats. Or you can view your friends status updates from Facebook or other social networks.

Yahoo! oneConnect will be the first mobile product with an open architecture that aggregates communications tools - email, instant messaging (IM), text messaging (SMS), and social networks - for a new level of convenience in mobile communications.

Yahoo oneConnect features:

* Socially-connected address book - Provide users the capability to integrate activity from popular social networks, professional networks, and communities into their address book, keeping it always in sync.
* Integrated mobile messaging - Offer seamless integration of IM and SMS, including threaded conversations.
* Status - Give consumers the capability to view their contacts by their most recent status updates on popular social networks, as well as update their own status on their favorite social networks - in one easy step - and automatically broadcast it to their friends.
* Pulse - Provide consumers the functionality to see a dynamic overview of what friends are up to, including recent photos, their status, profile updates, and recommendations based on their most recent actions on popular social networks.
* Favorites - Keep the people consumers interact with most at their fingertips. Users will be able to set up messaging shortcuts to make reaching out as quick as possible.
* Social contact card - Allow users to aggregate the most relevant information on any given contact, including archives of past communications, detailed pulse history, and one-click ways to initiate communication.
* Innovative location-sensing technology - Provide new ways to locate, chat with, and exchange contact information with nearby Yahoo! oneConnect users.
* An open communications platform - Give users the functionality to communicate via multiple communications tools - such as IM, SMS, and social networks.

With Yahoo! oneConnect you’ll be free to use all your favorite communications tools and services to connect with anyone, at anytime.

According to Yahoo, oneConnect should launch in the second quarter of 2008 as part of the Yahoo Go 3.0 mobile application set. For more info, read the Yahoo News.

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