MoMo Mike points out one deficiency in another interesting Google mobile service – poor integration to existing mobile services.
To me, that’s the piece I see missing in the things Yahoo and Google have been releasing. The products still seem to be point solutions for existing properties, not integrated extensions of multiple properties. For example, the Yahoo!Go mobile client doesn’t link with Flickr. Or, as Mike points out, the Google Personal mobile interface or the Google Local Mobile doesn’t integrate with Dodgeball.
I have no doubt that integration will come,. But how and when? Also, why aren’t these new things already coming integrated?
Integration can be messy, but if done right, can be the much better than the various services individually.
Link: This is Mobility – Close the Loop Already!.
A lot of folks have been talking about the mobile version of the Google personalized homepage recently, and of course I’ve given it a try. But just like the Google Local for Mobile release before it, it’s missing the one set of data that would really drive me to put some use behind it: Dodgeball.
