Mobile Phones & Social Media Integration: Yahoo's oneConnect
In Q2 of 2008 Yahoo expects to introduce a platform called "oneConnect"
that will allow users to integrate many forms of communication into their mobile phones. Yahoo describes this new platform as as way to "use all your favorite communications tools and services to connect with anyone, at anytime. From IM or text, email or social networks; Yahoo! oneConnect intends to integrate all the ways you communicate into a unique, mobile experience."
Yahoo's oneConnect mobile platform will allow users to view new postings on Facebook®, photos on MySpace or a connection on LinkedIn®. This mobile platform will support a good number of social media sites and make it easier for people to stay connected to their friends. Yahoo! oneConnect describes its new service as a way of keeping a pulse on its users networks and delivering the most current action right to their phones.