Yahoo! Mobile Widgets
(an intro to the
Blueprint platform)
Ricardo Varela
Mobile Engineering Lead
Webcamp.ro - Bucharest – July 8th

Some stats about EU5
• 225 million mobile users
– 24% are “mobile media” users
– 81.8% are SMS users
– 27.1% have a 3G connection
– 13% of them use high-end phones
– but… only 4-5% transition from web!
source: M:Metrics 2008

the mobile opportunity is massive
* Source eTForecasts

Yahoo Mobile Mission:
to enable a mobile ecosystem
for billions of users

Yahoo! Widget Platform
create a mobile
platform that makes
development easy