Yahoo! onePlace brings more to our mobile devices
Posted on March 5th 2008 in Mobile Technologies
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.
