February 12, 2008

Yahoo shows off oneConnect social address book

According to InfoWorld, Yahoo is working on a mobile service called oneConnect designed to aggregate contacts and communications around what it calls a "socially connected address book."

"The service, due to launch in the second quarter this year, will be open and other companies are free to join, Yahoo said Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona.

OneConnect draws information from social-networking sites such as MySpace, instant-messaging services such as Yahoo Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger, and e-mail services including Yahoo Mail and Google's Gmail to build a picture of the mood, location, and activities of friends and colleagues."

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