Virtually Here

Let’s start with a quote from the site itself:

“Bored with watching others’ lives and showing yours when nothing really happens? Want a true digital social life with live feedbacks and real sharing experience with your friends?”

If you answer yes to one or more of those questions you may want to take a close look at yoono.com

As of June 18, yoono.com has been out of Beta testing and is now available for the public to play around with.

You can describe yoono as an online-social-interaction-control-center. It does require a download (hrmpf..) and once installed it attaches itself to your browser (works very well in Firefox which is really the browser you should be using anyway if you’re on a PC) and provides you with a one-stop-shop for IM’ing your friends, sharing media (photos/music/videos), receiving and making updates to social sites such at Twitter, etc.

One of the strengths of yoono is that through the use of widgets it becomes very customizable - just install and activate the features that you are interested in. You may for instance chose to install the FriendsWidget to follow and interact with your on-line friends through posts on Twitter, FaceBook, IM’s, etc. If you are feeling adventurous and used to concepts introduced by sites such as StumbledUpon you may enjoy the DiscoveryWidget that will recommend sites for you based on your browsing history (there is even a widget especially for finding videos that you may enjoy based on your viewing history). The WebNotesWidget will allow you to grab any text/video/picture and simply drop them into the yoono frame for you to either view later - or share with your friends. And the list goes on with more features for pictures and radio stations (yes it’s also plays radio).

It may be just ‘one more’ tool to help you keep up to date with your busy online-social life but it may also be the tool you need. Truth is,only you can tell for sure so if you got a few minutes you may want to give it a try and see how you like it.

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