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.
Yoono 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.
So 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.