Yahoo One Connect, Flock and Mobile Friend App

Yahoo OneConnect is truly a very interesting app with interesting GUI the concept is to track all your friends' going on's anytime, anywhere it is at least 6-9 months away, and with Yahoo's current status, it is future is questionable here are some of my thoughts basing on the dump screen of the product and some researches on the "Friend's list" this can be the basis for a great mobile app NOT just IM even though the GUI of the interface looks like a Instant messenger, its is way beyond a IM. the iPhone/iChat type GUI is very nice for communication but its essentially a friend's list communication can be through different apps:

• IM
• post of facebook etc
• email
• sms

Active Addressbook the friends-list is the core of the app the addresbook app has always been the most used app on a phone now with the API to most phones fully open, these can be captured and used in the Friend App. also facebook, gmail and other online web 2.0 apps allow access to the contact book to capture info. info can be "aggregated" into a super addressbook that is active with user activities Twitter model expanded the Twitter model works here, where friend's going on is tracked and presented, she can be:

• doing anything: through the label of her MSN messenger, or Facebook
• or just did a Post on her Blog,
• or is travelling in other parts of the world (through Facebook "where am i" app or Google Calendar)
• what's the weather of his current city?
• talking through IM
• roaming with SMS contact
• posted picts on flickr
• posted video on Youtube
• listening to "madonna" on her itune

Twitteriffic is a nice Mac based tool for Twitter, but it only integrate Twitter.. (i only have one friend in Twitter..          :-/ Browsing Media A lot of updates online are media specific:

• Travel Blog
• Car interest group
• Gadget news..

Browsing image/snaps are easy to use to track info Flock's Friend GUI Flock is branded as a Social Community Brower. i have been trying Flock for the last month (beyond IE (dropped 9 months ago), Safari (never really used), and the trustworthy and xplatform Firefox (on Linux, Mac and Win) the only reason that i hadn't completely changed over to flock is that it does not support Foxmark which is SUPER important for me on multiple devices.. but this effiecient UI is really engaging more and more of my time: good work! The RSS aggregation is also good. Aggregation not Synchronization of Friend's going-on by putting all the going-on's in a sidebar, the app is very easy to use and track friends. it aggregate all my friends from:

• Facebook
• Flickr
• YouTube
• Twitter

if it can add friends that comment on my blog, blogger writer i am interested to track my IM friends, my SMS-able friends then it will be simply indispensible.. there is a lot of opportunity here!! worth consider investing more resource on to make it work

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