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Yahoo! onePlace Possible Killer App?

martijn — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:02:16 +0000

Yahoo! announced yet another new mobile application called onePlace. This might be the killer app we are waiting for. Yahoo has been making a burst lately with releasing new mobile applications for the web. This one kinda came out of the blue. I wasn’t aware of any information about this product so far. Since it will be available in Spain, I will try and have a look at it at the end of Q2, when it’s set to launch.

This should be the year of mobile! , errr, wasn’t this the story from last year as well? Because mobile use of the web isn’t very popular, perhaps until now? Is this the killer application we were all waiting for?
Yahoo onePlace will make sure that a user’s web interests are finally available in onePlace (hence the name), including their mail, RSS, stock quotes, contacts, Flickr photos and other important stuff we deal with on the web . It dynamically updates all the necessary information in a single location, where it’s accessible via the mobile web. It’s fully personalized and contextual.

Yahoo! also announced that at the end of the 2nd quarter, European users can use Yahoo! Mobile Widgets to access localized information through Yahoo! partners, which include Eurosport Football, Myspace, Xing and Dopplr.

Yahoo!’s mobile arsenal currently includes:

Yahoo! onePlace (just released!)
Yahoo! oneConnect (their mobile IM tool aka communications aggregator for sms/mail/im, released at WMC 2008)
Yahoo! Go 3.0 (their all-in-one mobile application)
Yahoo! Mobile Widgets
Yahoo! oneSearch (web and mobile search, also localized search in 19 countries!)
Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform
Yahoo! Mobile Advertising

Yahoo! states that their services that are available for mobile include:
Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Maps, Flickr, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo! Address Book and Yahoo! Music. Just in case you are using all of them

If you are interested in some snapshots, click here. In the meanwhile, feel free to discuss, is this really going to be a killer app?

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Going Barcelona

martijn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:55:05 +0000

When things are getting tough for you then it’s time for you to consider some GTD practices. Maybe I will, …someday.
Although I’ve been spending most of my free time finishing up those final courses on university, as well as my current project at TNO in time for my graduation period, I have been looking on the bright side of things.
…Say farewell Holland, and hola EspaÃ±a. I will be spending time on my final thesis in Barcelona, at Onetomarket SL. Doing research on Mobile Marketing opportunities, right at the same moment, the Mobile World Congress is about to start. It is still yet undecided if I will be attending the congress itself, but some side-events are already in my agenda! Like mobilesundaybarcelona. Might be picking up some topics while I’m at it and add it to my greater knowledge. Blend it with stuff I already learned on context-awareness and personal networks during my internship at TNO and things should turn out me being the fairy you can’t put away in the jar.
I’ll be heading off to Barcelona next Thursday, 31st of January. One minor disappointment; I still need an apartment!

I will be keeping you guys updated and as you might have already noticed.., in English!

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Update – mobile en semantic

martijn — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:13:59 +0000

Allereerst heb ik de nieuwe wordpress versie er maar eens tegen aangeknald met wat extra plugins. Zo las ik op de blog van mijn collega Joost, dat wphone hem goed was bevallen. Vanaf dat moment heb ik dus ook de mogelijkheid om mobiel te kunnen bloggen middels een handige interface. Wie mobiel zijn blog onderhoudt wil ook dat deze mobiel beschikbaar is, dus ook dat even direct geregeld.Nu ik de laatste tijd druk bezig ben met allerlei vraagstukken rondom mijn stage bij TNO en daarbij het een en andere aan leuke features tegenkwam op mijn zoektochten, besloot ik om een aantal hiervan ook maar eens op mijn eigen site in werking te stellen.
Ik ben ben de laatste tijd nogal bezig met ‘the web of data’ ook wel semantic web genoemd. Lekker stoeien met RDF en N3-triples.
Hieruit komen enkele technologien voort die al zijn toepassing gevonden hebben middels wordpress plugins. Zo heb ik nu een FoaF file toegevoegd en ook de SIOC plugin is toegevoegd, al moet ik er nog even achter komen hoe die in al zijn glorie werkt.

Ondertussen ga ik weer gauw bezig met het in elkaar stampen en hangen van een aantal RDFizers als onderdeel van mijn stage project. Misschien dat deze later ook nog van pas komen.

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