Yahoo Strives To Become Better than The Best

Yahoo is all set to give a tough competition to the giant search engine Google.
To secure its position and its users Yahoo is launching a new application that will aid in bringing together the address lists between social networks and Apple's iPhone.

With the help of a new Yahoo SDK this kind of synchronization can be done which will in turn enable the new tool to find its way through to Symbian and WM6.

Yahoo plans to create new cross-platform mobile tools and applications for Apple's iPhone and also for other developers to make an easy way into the widely used smartphones.

Yahoo wants to develop a unique tool that has the capacity to function without extensive recoding in Windows Mobile, Java, and Symbian environments.

To this effect, Yahoo has launched a new application for the iPod Touch and iPhone. With the help of Yahoo's new developers' tools the new application could be led into Windows Mobile and elsewhere.

Another tool- Yahoo's oneConnect that can be called a "social address" solution also, will enable the user to group up the contact lists on phones and those on social networks underneath one category/list .

Yahoo is employing its own internal developers' tools to develop oneConnect and iPhone applications. Yahoo plans to transport these tools and applications to other devices also in addition to iPhone and iPod.

As of now, Yahoo is providing these tools for Blueprint, a mobile SDK. The same SDK was also used by Yahoo for the Yahoo Go mobile service to develop widgets.

Regarding the new Blueprint Runtime for Mobile Sites, mobile project manager Markus Spiering on the Yahoo developers' site said it "creates a proxy layer that redirects HTTP requests from your server to Yahoo's…This allows you to 'host' the Blueprint service on your own server while relying on Yahoo's back end to interpret and render Blueprint markup, giving you the right HTML or xHTML that looks best on your users' phones."

To promote the Blueprint application, Yahoo has struck a deal with three Web development firms namely M.Net, Netbiscuits, and Crisp Wireless. These firms will provide an option to their customers under which the users will be able to avail their mobile Web applications built with Blueprint.

Preview versions of the two runtimes can be downloaded free of cost from the developers' site.