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"Yoono is one of the products that launched their beta at Web 2.0 Expo earlier this year to a good amount of acclaim.  Though it's been testing its interactive browser sidebar for over a year now, the concept of providing browser widgets is becoming a more fleshed out concept that's readily adopted in our cross-network online culture.  \nYoono announces its latest round of funding today, raising an additional $4 million from original investor Assurances Generales de France (AGF).  Yoono has also indicated that it will be seeking additional funding from a US-based investment company in order to establish some roots in the US and further its US growth in the online market.  \nCoinciding with the funding announcement, Yoono is also launching its public beta, which includes support for Firefox 3.  As Yoono's sidebar widgets turn your browser into a platform for media-sharing, there are a number of easy management tools that allow you to send updates across multiple networks, bookmark and clip portions of websites, chat, and directly share media with others on the Yoono platform.  \nSo far some of the most popular widgets have been the webnotes (bookmarking) and universal updates features.  In the coming months Yoono will expectedly be adding more widgets, including shopping and email.  The shopping widget will be similar to its existing discovery tool and can be used for recommendations, while the email widget will operate similar to those found on startpages like Pageflakes.  \nYoono is one of the few applications I've downloaded and didn't delete after testing it out, so I'm anxious to see how users think it will stand up against competition from other newcomers like Vysr, and all-encompassing browser solutions like Flock.  See here for a head-to-head comparison of the above and other similar tools."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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