Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility

This should be out on the wires today (Friday), Yahoo! Go is coming out of wraps. They’ve had their full set of services well represented on the mobile side for longer than just about any service, so there should be some good stuff in there. I assume it’s all gonna be Windows and/or Mac centric stuff, so us Linux users will probably loose out for a lot of it. Certainly seems so for the TV integration. And the mobile end seems to be Series 60 only. At least I have one of those.

Luckily all those Yahoos are into web services, so we’ll see this information base open up so that we hackers can put together out own endunits for this stuff, right? Supposedly the stuff is built on standard technologies and protocols with some custom client work to make it all seem magical. The question is which of the interfaces get exposed to the public and how are they thrown out there? Will I be able to write an app for my mobile that sync contacts? Cause I would like to also pull that into Evolution on my Linux lappy, and down to my Treo 650 as well. It would be nice to sync my 6680 with my Yahoo contacts, but ultimately something I’ll walk away from if that door isn’t completely open.

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