It was back in May that I talked about Yoono as a social media sidebar for firefox that had it all. You have the ability to clip web pages and photos (social bookmarking) and receive recommendations for new websites that you’ve never seen (discovery engine) and connect with your friends via the most popular social networks. I feel in love and haven’t stopped using it since. Well, it’s only been a few months and Yoono is making waves again with some huge announcements.
1. The user interface was fine for me but a lot of people didn’t seem to like it. Well, that’s all new and getting started is much easier. You can update your status from any where in the sidebar, viewing Flickr and interacting with Facebook is much easier. Yoono also added Myspace and imeem networks to the sidebar.
2. There is a new widget in town. Currently, there are widgets for Gmail, social networks, music, Digg and clipping things on the web to check out later or share with friends. Yoono is adding the shopping widget. It’s an unobtrusive, easy to use widget that is there when you need it. I was shopping amazon for Ren & Stimpy DVDs and the shopping widget is there to show me that Buy.com has it for cheaper and with free shipping. I can even share that link with a friend. This is Yoono’s secret to making a bit of money which is something every startup right now is striving for.
With the addition of new networks, a simpler interface and a cool shopping widget to help save money, I’m ecstatic about the changes coming to Yoono and anxiously await Firefox’s notification that I need to update my version of Yoono because it’s going to be full of goodies.
Download it now at http://yoono.com.
