Staking its claim for attention at this week’s CeBIT information technology fair in Germany, Internet heavyweight Yahoo! has announced the continuation of its global mobile ecosystem via the introduction of onePlace, which it describes as a “revolutionary mobile content management solution.”
Yahoo announces its onePlace mobile bookmarking tool. Credit: KnitWareBlog.
According to Yahoo!, onePlace has been designed to further evolve the company’s mobile search and mobile communications drive while existing as another essential mobile phone tool that will allow on-the-go consumers to better manage the huge selection of content presently available through the Internet.
“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,” said Marco Boerries, executive vice president of Yahoo’s Connected Life, before adding that Yahoo! onePlace “will provide mobile users with a rich and dynamic content experience.”
Offering users instantly organised, dynamically current and personally customised content, onePlace is touted as being simple-to-use due to it closely resembling the popular online practice of applying bookmarks to pages and sites in order to quickly link to almost any form of Web-based content.
Expected to be launched in the second quarter of 2008, onePlace will allow users to mark online links, news feeds and search results that can swiftly lead them to useful locations such as constantly updated travel information, results linked to their favourite sports, or even the social network posts of their friends.
Yahoo! explains, for example, that a user planning a holiday to Paris could use onePlace to create a specific ‘Paris’ collection, and then link any useful trip-related information such as weather conditions, city guides, restaurant reviews, hotel reservations, walking maps, winery recommendations, etc., to that collection for swift examination at any point.
Alongside the likes of oneConnect, which will launch around the same time, Yahoo! has said that onePlace is the final major piece of the company’s current drive to create a rounded mobile phone experience for consumers, which will subsequently enable it to shift focus to making profit from the entire mobile package.
Other elements in Yahoo!’s award-winning mobile product portfolio include Yahoo! Go 3.0, and Yahoo! oneSearch. The Q2 release of onePlace is expected to see the mobile tool spread across hundreds of mobile devices and compatible browsers around the world.
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