Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
Curly: This. [holds up one finger]
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean shit.
– City Slickers
Yahoo! unveiled onePlace today. It’s designed to enable consumers to better manage their mobile Internet content.
Yahoo! onePlace provides a highly personalized experience with everything instantly organized, kept current, and served to them the way they want.
“With the introduction of Yahoo! onePlace, we are announcing the next essential component to our mobile product line up,” said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo!. “Yahoo! onePlace is where users will be able to find what matters to them the most, no matter where their interests.”
For example, automatically updated game scores, stock prices, etc. can be displayed as well as assigned categories and tags – or placed into customized “collections”.
If a user is planning a holiday to Paris in June, for example, he could create a “Paris” collection, and begin linking it to any information he thinks will be useful to him on his trip: weather conditions, city guides, restaurant reviews, hotel reservations, walking maps, songs of Edith Piaf, English-French dictionaries, winery recommendations, etc.
Yahoo! onePlace is expected to launch, along with Yahoo! oneConnect, in Q2 2008, joining Yahoo!’s mobile product portfolio, which includes Yahoo! Go 3.0 (Yahoo!’s new mobile homepage), and Yahoo! oneSearch.
After its release, Yahoo! onePlace is expected to become available across hundreds of devices and mobile browsers around the world.
