(Side note: punctuation in product names sure makes headlines confusing)
Mashable has a post about upcoming Yahoo Life!
The premise is this: take Yahoo Mail, and make it the hub of your daily online activities; turn e-mail addresses into social profiles; connect e-mail to other services, and use the info from the contacts in these services according to the context.
This sounds good. This sounds like exactly what I need. Of course, there is a “but”:
It sounds and looks great, but we can’t know how well it works until the product actually goes live.
OK, we have to wait and see. But I see that this niche will get a bit crowded pretty soon. With all those web services and social networks more and more people are coming online. Social connections will be more and more important, and therefor we’ll see more and more tools that do this. There are some specialized tools for these purposes already, but none of them have enough functionality and momentum to lead the way yet. Hopefully it will change sooner than later. And, hopefully, Google will play some major role in this too…