Although Yahoo is on the precipice of a takeover battle with technology giant Microsoft, the company today announced a new technology for mobile phone users dubbed onePlace. The new tool is designed to help mobile users organize and make sense of the sheer amount of content now available to mobile phone users by pulling it together in an instantly-organized, highly personalized, and constantly-updated place.
“With the introduction of Yahoo onePlace, we are announcing the next essential component to our mobile product line up,” said Yahoo executive VP of connected Life Marco Boerries, in a statement. “Yahoo onePlace is where users will be able to find what matters to them the most, no matter where their interests, passions, and information come from. Yahoo onePlace will provide mobile users with a rich and dynamic content experience.”
Yahoo onePlace should look familiar to anyone who’s used a bookmarking system in a Web browser: users just point to essentially any sort of online content *(Web pages, RSS feeds, images, videos, mail, search queries, etc.) and onePlace can keep the item constantly updated. Users can also place items into collections, and assign categories and tags to them for easy organization. Yahoo onePlace is designed to be able to accommodate hundreds of different items and collections on a single device, enabling users to focus on just the things they care about without having to worry about updating and organizing the others.
Yahoo expects to launch onePlace in the second quarter of 2008, along side Yahoo oneConnect and Yahoo oneSearch. Once released, it should become available on a wide variety of devices and mobile phones around the world.
