Yoono social browser plugin goes public, adds Firefox 3 support

Filed under: Internet, Social Software, web 2.0, Browsers

Yoono social browser plugin goes public, adds Firefox 3 support

by Brad Linder Jun 24th 2008

Social web browsing plugin Yoono has emerged from private beta. The new version still wears a beta label, but it's available to the public. Yoono is basically a utility that hangs out in the Firefox sidebar and gives you quick access to instant messenging services, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, and Piczo.

The public beta adds support for Firefox. It also packs a few new features:

Filter your friends activity by network, group, or names
Add FriendFeed and Flickr comments
Send Twitter direct messages and replies
Upload pictures to Facebook or poke friends
Browse Digg video

Yoono will also be adding Google Talk and MySpace soon. There does appear to be a bug that prevents Yoono from working properly on Firefox 3 in some cases. The problem seems to show up if you've installed some other browser plugins. Yoono is expected to release an updated version addressing this problem within the next few days.

[via Mashable]

Tags: digg, facebook, firefox, firefox-3, flickr, friendfeed, twitter, yoono

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tom said 6:32PM on 6-24-2008

Wonder if this will give Flock a run for their money?

jeppe said 6:39PM on 6-24-2008

Why do all these applications need to be so...so full of crap? Buttons, billions of buttons, frames, colours and filled with useless services. I say minimalistic is the future!

Kevin said 7:36PM on 6-24-2008

Hi jeppe, One of our goals at Yoono is to try to make your life easier on the social web by providing you one place to manage all of your networks. That's why we've got an extensive interface, there's so many out there.

We think once you get used to using Yoono you'll find it's easy to use and can be quite a powerful tool.

julian said 8:37PM on 6-24-2008

haha nice comeback kevin.
I do wonder if this will give FLock a run for their money.
I think it is reallllly,,, reallly... extremely annoying to have firefox, songbird and flock. they all seem like the same browser with ... eh somewhat substantial changes.
It seems like they could be merged. latter two into firefox. making it bulky firefox... maybe not such a good idea.
anyhow hopefully Yoono is a good piece of software and will remove all these redundancies off of my computer

Quikboy said 10:03PM on 6-25-2008

Hey Kevin, any chance there'll be versions for IE and Safari? I would love to have Yoono available on those.

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