Marco Boerries, Yahoo’s Executive Vice President introduced Yahoo’s new mobile Internet portal at MWC. Yahoo! Mobile will roll a lot of Yahoo’s services into one aggregator, including Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo OneSearch, as well as investing heavily in widgets. It is being touted as your “starting point for the internet” and is designed to offer a full web experience from your mobile. In this video, Marco Boerries gives an overview of it’s main functions.
Yahoo at MWC 2009: Marco Boerries introduces Yahoo! Mobile from Cian Gomo on Vimeo.
In this clip he demonstrates the location-based search function included as part of the Discovery platform:
Yahoo at MWC 2009: Marco Boerries introduces Yahoo! Mobile location search from Cian Gomo on Vimeo.
Yahoo! Mobile will also act as a mobile social network hub with the new “Pulse” service. Pulse will aggregate all emails and MoSo updates from all of a friends social networks, and can add individual friends as widgets on your homescreen:
Yahoo at MWC 2009: Marco Boerries introduces Yahoo! Mobile Pulse mobile social network from Cian Gomo on Vimeo.
