I decided to research tools that provide site organization and after careful consideration, Yoono was the winner. Yoono is an add-on for Firefox and allows constant updates and direct connection to micro-blog sites and social networks through the use of widgets in a side toolbar and the user’s profile page.
In addition to supporting the following networks and instant messenger programs, Yoono allows users to view their friends’ pages, away messages, and even offers side pop-up notifications for updates from these sites:
One of the unique features is the ability to drag and drop news links into the side toolbar and categorizing the articles as funny, love it or hate it. Yoono also offers music from Last.fm Radio, top rated videos from sites like YouTube and Digg, and the ability to view friends’ photos.
Buzz Meter Ranking: 4 out of 4 Buzz Bees
Positive: Installing Yoono was simple. The steps to integrate all of the social networks and instant messaging services were very user-friendly. Of course the biggest plus to Yoono is the amount of supporting sites and all of the user-capabilities. The side toolbar’s size can be easily adjusted or removed just by hitting Crtl+Alt+y. If you want the side toolbar to magically appear again, all you would do is click on the Yoono button that also gets installed next to your address bar (just like the del.icio.us button).
Negative: If you’re not into Firefox and love Internet Explorer, this tool is not available to you. Although patience is a virtue and the tool offers many features, it takes a while for each social networking website to sync with Yoono (uploading all of your friends – and their current statuses can take forever if you have a ton of friends).
Conclusion: I really like Yoono. I can easily access my friends’ photos, Facebook and Twitter profiles. Aside from what I like, I do wish that Yoono would include more instant messaging services such as Google Talk and Skype – since I use those services quite often. The simplicity of the tool, the way it provides constant updates and instant connections while organizing my favorite social websites, really makes Yoono a winner. Try Yoono, then you’ll know what I’m talking about.
“I do wish that Yoono would include more instant messaging services such as Google Talk and Skype ”
Your wish has come true ;-)
The next release, coming up this week, will integrate Gtalk (Skype is technically a bit more difficult) and an alpha version of IE should be available next week (crossing the fingers).
We are also producing new tutorial videos to help users discover the different features of Yoono.
Regards,
PYves
Hi Marinel,
Thanks for the great write-up on Yoono. We’re glad you’re enjoying the service! I have a couple of updates for you.
Right now our Internet Explorer version is a work in progress. I’ll let you know as soon as Yoono is ready for IE.
And make sure you keep your eyes on our blog over the next couple of weeks for big news related to Google services. http://blog.yoono.com/blog/
Cheers,
Kevin
Yoono Community Evangelist
I like it a lot, too. I also wish a few more services would be included… I guess it has AIM, but not ICQ or MSN? Not sure.. .so many things to learn about it. I use Miranda for my IM client and I have all the IMs hooked up into one which I like a lot.
I really like the Twitter and FriendFeed Features, and I have the message window open on my desktop all day now.
@PYves & @Kevin: That is definitely exciting news! I know if you integrate Gtalk my friends will be more persuaded to try Yoono. I look forward to all of these new features, thanks!
@Cynthia: I’m glad we both share the point of view on Yoono. It’s just a wonderful tool to organize everything!
@Cynthia: MSN is already available in Yoono. ICQ used to be in our private beta version, but we had to remove it from our public version as we’ve changed our technical solutions for the chat… We’re working on it and it should be back soon.
Include Skype and I’ll be happy
Pierre-Yves ah okay thanks for letting me know!
I really hope Skype in Yoono comes soon. Like most people in business online, I use Skype for my day to day contacts and really could do with this :) I too adore Yoono although I do try and have too much on my FF and so it crashes regularly LOL
i´ve just seen yoono first and the interface is real god but for the useability ICQ and StudiVZ are realy important for me in the actual version is it not as usefull as it could bee