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Your address book gets social

Posted September 12th, 2008 at 12:23 pm by Joe Hayashi, Yahoo! Mobile

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Oneconnect on IphoneImagine bringing together your circle of friends and your social networks into one easy-to-use mobile application. Imagine no more. Our mobile team has just rolled out Yahoo! oneConnect for the iPhone, reinventing the way you interact with your address book. It brings multiple contact lists and different ways to communicate to that thing you never leave home without — your mobile device.

With a few quick taps on the screen of your iPhone, your entire network of contacts from social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and Twitter are at your fingertips. Add to this the ability to send Yahoo! instant messages or SMS messages to those in your phone book and suddenly your address book has become more powerful and useful than ever.

With the “Pulse” feature, you get an aggregated look at what’s happening on many of your favorite social networking sites. Whether it’s a new video posted on YouTube, a friend’s new suggested song on Last.fm, or your college roommate’s latest world travels on Dopplr, you can keep up with everything that is going on throughout the day in one convenient location. With the “Favorites” feature, you can pull aside your favorite contacts to quickly keep tabs on just their activity, call them or send a quick message or email.

And did I mention it’s free?

If you have an iPhone or a iPod touch, download Yahoo! oneConnect at the iPhone App Store—and pass along the word to your friends in all of your social networks so they can stay connected on the go too! (They will thank you for it, we promise.)

For more on Yahoo! oneConnect, go to http://mobile.yahoo.com/oneconnect/iphone

Joe Hayashi
Senior Director, Yahoo! Mobile

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Comment sandrar | September 10th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

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