Yahoo onePlace
The web giant Yahoo announced today a new initiative that will expand its presence in the mobile world. The new service, Yahoo onePlace, is basically a mobile content management solution, that aims to help users to organize, select and gather the information on their cell phones.
The tool builds on other new mobile applications from Yahoo. Those include OneConnect, a tool to update social-networking messaging on the phone (announced in February), and OneSearch, which aggregates news, weather, financial data, photos, and Web links based on search queries.
As Yahoo envisions it, a person planning a trip to Paris could create a collection of bookmarks, or links, to information such as a weather site, city guides, restaurant reviews, hotels, walking maps, etc. OnePlace includes a mobile RSS reader, so people can subscribe to content feeds to stay on top of the latest information.
Yahoo is racing to leapfrog Google Inc’s clear lead in computer search and advertising by custom-building services for cell phones and forming alliances with carriers that already give it access to 600 million mobile phone users.
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