13 Feb 2008

Yahoo! oneConnect - A beautiful example of integration

Yahoo! just announced its oneConnect solution for its mobile platform Go 3.0. I haven't used it yet, but it looks simply beautiful integration of our diverse web lives in a simple mobile solution. I hope it works as good as it looks! I left Yahoo! back around 2005 when they took forever to use ajax on their mail platform. I have been a happy Googler ever since, but if Google doesn't come up with something similar within the next year I will have to reconsider returning to Yahoo! The bigger question in all of this is if they can do this on mobile, why don't they do this with their Yahoo! User home pages? With so many amazing applications available today, the web is screaming for someone (preferably a leader) to consolidate and integrate in one space. Both Yahoo! and Google have acquired some incredible web properties that are integral to our web lives. It is inexcusable that they have done such a poor job of integrating. Bravo to Yahoo! mobile for doing it on their own.