One of the very cool applications which debuted at Mobile World Congress was Yahoo OneConnect. It’s a new tool that allows mobile users to aggregate social networking updates and messaging in one spot on the phone. That means you can interact with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Yahoo Messenger and so on from a single place, as well as send and receive status updates. It also provides location based services, so that you can see which friends are nearby. And OneConnnect is integrated with the phone’s address book, to allow easy updates, dialing and so on.
I was pretty impressed. This is one of the more seriously cool applications I saw at Mobile World Congress. Here’s a photo demonstrating the application taking on the Yahoo booth.
And here’s a short video of the demonstration. I was forced to stop recording after a few minutes when the Yahoo! police showed up to say that no recordings were permitted. Thankfully they didn’t try to confiscate my phone!
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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