Almost a month ago Yahoo! announced Yahoo! oneConnect, a mobile communications aggregator and yesterday they announced Yahoo! onePlace, which is also to appear live sometime in Q2 2008. Basically, Yahoo! onePlace is going to be a pretty nifty attempt by Yahoo! to help mobile users organize “everything” they need in one place.

“Yahoo! onePlace(TM) will bring together a consumer’s interests, passions and important information into a single location - creating a rich and highly personalized experience. Everything is instantly organized, dynamically kept current, and served to them the way they want. So now, the content they consume and the way they consume it will be hyper-customized to their specific preferences and tastes.”

They are promising it will be simple to use, being based on bookmarking as a way to link to practically any content on the Web (news feeds, web sites, videos, images, emails, search queries, whatever)… Every item will be automatically updated with new values and data (quotes, scores, etc.) and the users will be able to categorize content freely. Yahoo! gives an example of a scenario where a user may find Yahoo! onePlace a neat application to use:

“…if a user is planning a holiday to Paris in June, he could create a “Paris” collection, and begin linking it to any information he thinks will be useful to him on his trip: weather conditions, city guides, restaurant reviews, hotel reservations, walking maps, songs of Edith Piaf, English-French dictionaries, winery recommendations, etc. Yahoo! onePlace will give consumers a single location to consume all of their information contextually, keeping it updated (so they know, for example, if their flight times have changed) and instantly accessible whenever and however they want it…”

Sounds pretty good, and will be released just in time for summer holidays

Smart phones are changing the way people use mobile phones, and we’ll probably be seeing a drastic shift towards web-based applications aimed at mobile devices, rather than applications that have to be installed on the device itself, taking up valuable memory and causing inevitable hangs and slow-downs.

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Great news for all hi-tech adopting professionals (smart phone oriented) who find LinkedIn a useful business social networking tool - LinkedIn released a mobile version of their service. It’s available at m.linkedin.com. The interface allows for any mobile internet enabled device (with Wireless Application Protocol) to access the service, although there is a special beta version for iPhone.

The team behind the new mobile LinkedIn is working on introducing more applications to the mobile LinkedIn platform, such as LinkedIn Answers and LinkedIn Experts.

The new mobile LinkedIn service is available immediately in these languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese, but additional languages are to follow in the near future.

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Yahoo! announced oneConnect in Barcelona (at the Mobile World Congress). Basically it’s their approach to aggregating mobile communications on a single platform. The service will provide features like socially-connected address book, integrated mobile messaging, pulse, favorites and a social contact card. It will also initially bring integration of the major social networking sites such as Bebo, Dopplr, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Wow, impressive!

“Last year we set out to reinvent mobile search with Yahoo! oneSearch, and today with 29 operator partnerships around the world covering more than 600 million subscribers, we believe we have certainly succeeded… Now, we intend to reinvent mobile communications through Yahoo! oneConnect, a revolutionary new mobile communications service that will combine integrated mobile messaging with a socially-connected address book.” (Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo!)

More information about Yahoo! oneConnect here.

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