One iPhone app to rule them all: Y! oneConnect
- Posted September 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm by Ryan
- Categories: Address Book & Calendar, All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, Mac, New Stuff
There was some big news yesterday from our Mobile team. Yahoo! oneConnect was released for the iPhone! For those of you who aren’t familiar with oneConnect, it is designed to help you communicate with not only your Yahoo! friends, but also the friends you have on social networks like Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Youtube, Bebo, Dopplr, Friendster and Twitter.
It makes it easy to pull up anyone from your contacts and quickly call, email, instant message, or text/SMS with them…all from the same place. You can also get status updates from what your friends have been doing on your favorite social networks. If you look at the example picture to the right you can see hat you can select which contact channels appear for each of your Favorite contacts.
With a quick tap I can send an instant message or initiate an email to my first contact (note the “Available” status). I can also see that my friend Thien is offline, but since I have his mobile number it defaults to SMS. I also have 3 different email addresses on file for him, but have chosen to only display the one I use most.
Rather than reinventing the wheel, I’m going to repost this awesome rundown of oneConnect’s top features (courtesy of the Messenger blog):
Full address book
oneConnect integrates contacts from your Yahoo! Address Book, iPhone, and many social networks. To add social networks to your oneConnect, tap on the “Settings” icon at the bottom, then hit “My Accounts”. Once you’ve added a social network account, oneConnect will import all your contacts. Tap on the “Contacts” icon in the bottom bar to access them.
Send and receive instant messages, SMS, or initiate an Email,
Once you sign in with your Yahoo! ID, your entire Yahoo! Messenger contact list will appear. Just tap on the “Message” icon in the bottom bar, then tap the “+” in the upper right corner to start a new IM (or start one from a friend’s listing under “Contacts”).
You can insert your favorite emoticons into your conversation and you’ll see your Avatar or display image as well as your friend’s. (note: if email is more your style you can easily initiate an email message, and the TO: field populates itself).
When you’re messaging, you’ll notice a “Y!” icon to the left of the text box. Tap on that and it changes to an SMS icon. When you want to send a SMS message, make sure the SMS icon appears there and just start typing. Note that you must have the mobile phone number for your friend already entered into their contact info. To go back to sending IMs, tap on the icon again to bring up the Y! icon.
Updates from your friends (Pulse)
In addition to IMs and SMS text messages, you can keep up with what your friends are doing on your favorite social networks. Tap on the Pulse icon to see a running list of updates from your friends. See the latest photos from your Flickr friends (note the recent Flickr update from lifecasting star iJustine), get status updates from your Facebook contacts, or see what your Twitter buddies have to say. You can even select which types of updates you want to view.
You can also update your own status on your social networks from oneConnect. When you’re in the Pulse area, tap the “My Status” button in the upper right corner. Enter a new status message and it gets sent out too all of your networks at once.
Yahoo! oneConnect is available for free from the Yahoo! Mobile website. To install it, click the “Get Yahoo! oneConnect” button on the page to access the oneConnect listing in the App Store on iTunes (or click here to launch it immediately in iTunes). It works on all versions of the iPhone.
Try it out and let us know what you think here on the blog or on the oneConnect Suggestion Board.
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- 32 Comments
September 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
there is no such app on the app store
September 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
actually… works sporadically… and you can’t find it by searching on Yahoo or “oneConnect”
September 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
takes 100 years to install
September 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
dude… 100 years is up. Why does it take so freaking long to install?
September 11th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
It is still taking some time to populate within all of the iTunes search options (it is the first Y! App) but you can also find it in the AppStore by visiting the Social Networking category.
It can take a while to load the first time, depending on the size of your Y! Address book. The status bar should display how far along you are.
-Ryan
September 14th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
okk i totaly willl tryyy dat sooooo….!!….!!>…..!!:) :) :)
September 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hi Ryan,
Quick observation - Norton Antivirus for Y! mail does not scan inside archived attachments. And they definitely should. Can you pass that along to the tech team? Thanks!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Why don’t they come up with something like this for people who are on PCs? Seems to me it would be just as useful for those who aren’t on their iphone…
September 11th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
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September 11th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Looks great - any plans to roll this out on other platforms? Windows Mobile specifically I’d be interested in.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
[...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThere was some big news yesterday from our Mobile team. Yahoo! oneConnect was released for the iPhone! For those of you who aren’t familiar with oneConnect, it is designed to help you communicate with not only your Yahoo! friends, but also the friends you have on social networks like Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Youtube, Bebo, Dopplr, Friendster and Twitter. It makes it easy to pull up anyone from your contacts and quickly call, email, instant message, or text/SMS with them…all from the same p [...]
September 12th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Now we’re just waiting for the iPhones to be able to sync with the Yahoo!-calendar! :-)
September 12th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Man, do I want an iPhone even more now… Could you guys do a deal with Nintendo and get it on the DS? The DS has a (very unsuccessful) MP3 player, a browser, and it almost had a TV tuner, so why not? Those things worked (even though they didn’t really take off…), so why not try this? The DS needs more in the way of apps.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
heyyy luv the blog and the i phone there awsome i want one they sound kool!!!:) :) :)
September 15th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
ii don’t know what you talk about
September 14th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Quick Ryan, get someone to fix the typo!
You can access your Yahoo! Mail from the Personal Assistant at the top of your page.
Don’t have a Personal Assistant? Get one by clicking on “Add Conent”, then “Add Modules…”, then look in “My Yahoo! Essentials
September 15th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Is there anyway to get a status update on a feature request? I’ve made a request for a feature, but don’t know of anyway to determine if the feature is being implemented, or tested or anything. Is there anyway to find out what features/projects are in the works for future release (no matter how small)?
September 19th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Steve,
It all depends. For smaller things I might be able to share some details. For larger stuff it might have to wait until we are announcing it publicly.
So feel free to ask and I’ll see what I can do.
-Ryan
September 15th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Cool! Just downloaded and chatted with friends. I like the way stuff is integrated here and I would add more accounts and enjoy! In the meantime here are a few quick observations that may need fixing:
- Yahoo Avatar for Messenger and for OneConnect seem different :(
- Can see display pictures of people who are in my address book but not on my messenger list! Applies only to Yahoo ids of course.
- and last. The app hangs frequently :(
-P.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:05 am
ya i know they so do
those ways r great they definatley need fixing!!!!!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
you are got me in it got you to lol
September 21st, 2008 at 7:19 am
Hello….
September 30th, 2008 at 11:53 am
yahoo
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October 13th, 2008 at 7:27 am
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October 6th, 2008 at 7:45 am
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October 11th, 2008 at 10:02 am
hi i just want to know why i can’t use buzz and audible in ym tru yahoo mail can you update it?.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am
oh ya another things why i can’t download ym 9.0 on my computer?
October 12th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Can anyone refer me to any entity, group or organization about talent search, aside from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and Guinness Book of World Records. My forte shows about the infinite calculation of the Gregorian calendar with a perpetual range from October 15, 1582 and beyond…infinity.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Where did all my saved e-mails and messages go? One day they were there the next nothing.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:22 am
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December 9th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Question about y!oneConnect: Can anyone tell me how to get an email list I created in my Yahoo! Mail address book to sync over to y!oneConnect on my iPhone?