CeBIT 2008
CeBIT 2008

Yahoo launches 'hyper-customised' onePlace

Smart bookmarks promise dynamic content

Written by Ian Williams at CeBIT in Hanover

Keeping track of the things that interest me is tough because my content is in so many different places

Marco Boerries Executive vice president of Connected Life, Yahoo

Yahoo has unveiled its onePlace platform at the CeBIT show in Hanover.

The company said that onePlace puts consumers' data into a single location and serves it up in a "personally relevant manner".

According to Yahoo, the offering uses an intelligence-driven system to organise content according to unique interests. The material, and the way it is consumed, is "hyper-customised" to specific preferences and tastes.

OnePlace uses bookmarks to link to pieces of content, such as news feeds, websites, videos or images. Information is then automatically updated and assigned categories and tags.

The system also places material into customised 'collections', making it more intuitive for consumers to find and combine content in the ways most useful to them, according to Yahoo.

For example, users planning a holiday to Paris could create a 'Paris' collection, and begin linking it to any information they think might be useful on the trip.

Such content could include flight updates, weather conditions, city guides, restaurant reviews, hotel reservations, maps and dictionaries, all of which is kept automatically updated.

Users can create categories to organise content according to commonly used subjects, such as celebrities, local businesses or sports.

A Pulse feature streams updates to relevant content, such as flight status changes or a restaurant review.

Marco Boerries, executive vice president of Connected Life at Yahoo, said: " Keeping track of all the things that interest me is really tough because my content is in so many different places.

"So what's the answer to that? How do I keep up? Simple, by putting all of this into one place."

Yahoo expects to launch onePlace and oneConnect in the second quarter of 2008.

Further reading

CeBIT 2008 Special Report

All the news, views and reviews from Hanover   More...

Green IT tops the bill at CeBIT 2008

Trade show highlights services, products and innovations   More...

Yahoo touts mobile internet for Europe

Yahoo Go 3.0 for Europe unveiled at CeBIT   More...

Ballmer talks up the 'fifth revolution'

Personal empowerment, social interaction and global issues driving a new era   More...

Related articles

CeBIT 2008 Special Report

All the news, views and reviews from Hanover   More...

T-Mobile drops Google for Yahoo

Lower roaming costs and new services in the pipeline   More...

IDF: Intel releases Mashmaker preview

Mash-ups made easy, claims chipmaker   More...

Flickr adds geo-tagged Places feature

Browse geo-tagged photos by place name and maps   More...

Do you agree?

Advertisement

Job of the week

Search thousands of IT jobs :

Search thousands of IT jobs:

Advanced search

Hiring now on ComputingCareers:

Related IT jobs

Search thousands of IT jobs :

Search thousands of IT jobs:

Advanced search

Advertisement

Watch

22 Jul 2008

3.22 MBSat-nav crashes, open source security and female gamers More...

21 Jul 2008

3.12 MBGlobal internet reach, online spending and the space race More...

18 Jul 2008

7.91 MBPodcast Special: Views from the Valley More...

Poll

EUROPEAN E-COMMERCE

EUROPEAN E-COMMERCE

Are you happy making an online purchase from another European country?

Previous poll results

Newsletter signup

Sign up for our range of FREE newsletters:

Existing User

Newsletter user login:

Enter email address to edit your newsletter preferences

Spotlight

Beijing 2008

Online sports market kicks off

Sports fans among the biggest online spenders   More...

Oyster card

Court rules Oyster hack can be revealed

Judge sanctions release of full hack details   More...

Advertisement

Carl Icahn

Yahoo settles with Icahn

Boardroom coup called off as investor is given seat   More...

Prince

Mum fights Universal over YouTube clip

Child dancing to Prince song leads to court case   More...

Advertisement