Comments on: Evaluating Ajax Start Pages http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages a blog about the connected age Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:34:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: tech decentral » Ajax Start Pages Suck http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-796 tech decentral » Ajax Start Pages Suck Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:16:26 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-796 [...] In the hopes of boosting my productivity by using an all-in-one dashboard and start page, I reviewed four Ajax web start pages and one Flash-based start page for Web Worker Daily: Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google’s customized homepage, Protopage, and yourminis. I had a few ideas beforehand what I hoped to find, but I knew I would be mostly frustrated. [...] […] In the hopes of boosting my productivity by using an all-in-one dashboard and start page, I reviewed four Ajax web start pages and one Flash-based start page for Web Worker Daily: Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google’s customized homepage, Protopage, and yourminis. I had a few ideas beforehand what I hoped to find, but I knew I would be mostly frustrated. […]

]]> By: Craig's Rantings... http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-795 Craig's Rantings... Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:32:26 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-795 <strong>Taking it Online</strong> Each day I'm surprised by how many more people seem to be jumping in and testing out the idea of the "Online Computer", the idea that your computer is one that does not physical exist in the same room as you but rather spread around on services o ..... Taking it Online

Each day I’m surprised by how many more people seem to be jumping in and testing out the idea of the “Online Computer”, the idea that your computer is one that does not physical exist in the same room as you but rather spread around on services o …..

]]> By: Sam http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-794 Sam Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:59:47 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-794 ...still using popurls.com though …still using popurls.com though

]]> By: Parag Mathur http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-793 Parag Mathur Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:33:20 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-793 Anne, Interesting article. It's cool that you're committed to getting your life online. Not only don't you have to deal with "accidents", but the accessiblity even when you're away from your personal computer is a major advantage. I would like to invite you to check out our exciting new website called ZCubes (http://www.zcubes.com). It's a browser based platform that allows you to seamlessly integrate different types of content like media (pictures, audio, video), RSS feeds, websites, gadgets, search, text, and even handwriting/paint/drawings/sketches. In addition, you can personalize and customize your content to look as you want. We would love to hear your feedback. Thanks, Parag paragm@zcubes.com http://www.zcubes.com Anne,

Interesting article. It’s cool that you’re committed to getting your life online. Not only don’t you have to deal with “accidents”, but the accessiblity even when you’re away from your personal computer is a major advantage.

I would like to invite you to check out our exciting new website called ZCubes (http://www.zcubes.com). It’s a browser based platform that allows you to seamlessly integrate different types of content like media (pictures, audio, video), RSS feeds, websites, gadgets, search, text, and even handwriting/paint/drawings/sketches. In addition, you can personalize and customize your content to look as you want.

We would love to hear your feedback.

Thanks,
Parag
paragm@zcubes.com
http://www.zcubes.com

]]> By: Anne http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-792 Anne Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:24:07 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-792 Hi Adam - thanks for stopping by--isn't Enterprise 2.0 fascinating? I'm excited to track what happens there too, looks like your blog will be a good resource for that. Sandy - I like Netvibes best of the three I'm using so far. But it definitely takes some work behind the scenes to get everything combined and distilled the way I want before it even gets to the start page (like the RedMonk feed I was talking about on tech decentral). I can't get to your review right now because ebizQ.net seems to be down but that should be useful for my own evaluation. Hi Adam - thanks for stopping by–isn’t Enterprise 2.0 fascinating? I’m excited to track what happens there too, looks like your blog will be a good resource for that.

Sandy - I like Netvibes best of the three I’m using so far. But it definitely takes some work behind the scenes to get everything combined and distilled the way I want before it even gets to the start page (like the RedMonk feed I was talking about on tech decentral). I can’t get to your review right now because ebizQ.net seems to be down but that should be useful for my own evaluation.

]]> By: Sandy Kemsley http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-791 Sandy Kemsley Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:34:37 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-791 Anne, I've been using Netvibes since June and really like it. I did a review of it at the time: http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/column2/archives/2006/06/start_page_heav.php Although my usage has changed somewhat as new modules are added, I'm still very happy with it as a my start page. Anne, I’ve been using Netvibes since June and really like it. I did a review of it at the time: http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/column2/archives/2006/06/start_page_heav.php

Although my usage has changed somewhat as new modules are added, I’m still very happy with it as a my start page.

]]> By: Adam Carson http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-790 Adam Carson Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:55:40 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-790 Hi Anne, Just wanted to point you towards my new blog on Enteprise 2.0 www.adamkcarson.wordpress.com Hope to talk one day on this extremely interesting subject. Adam Hi Anne,

Just wanted to point you towards my new blog on Enteprise 2.0

http://www.adamkcarson.wordpress.com

Hope to talk one day on this extremely interesting subject.

Adam

]]> By: tech decentral » RedMonk Needs an RFF http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-789 tech decentral » RedMonk Needs an RFF Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:58:09 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/12/evaluating-ajax-start-pages#comment-789 [...] I thought of emailing the guys to ask what they thought, then I realized it’s more appropriate to ask the RedMonk community. Granted, this blog doesn’t have enough reach to get to the entire RedMonk community… or does it, via the few subscribers I have already? I assume that James and Steve and Cote’ are subscribed, if not, I’m going to kick their butts. Via those three I theoretically reach the entire community. This came up because in working my web start page where I can immediately and quickly know what’s happening in my world I realized I wan t one feed for everything that’s coming out of the RedMonk blogspace, not a bunch of different ones. I made a first cut at it with FeedBlendr. But that doesn’t include the comments and I wonder if relying on some other service is the right way to go. FeedBlendr doesn’t make it very easy to edit a blended feed once it’s created and the monks are shortly moving to WordPress, so I would fairly immediately need to edit it. There’s FeedDigest too, but it’s not accepting new registrations. It seems like something FeedBurner should do and we already trust our feeds to them, so that’d be an easy choice if they offered it. [...] […] I thought of emailing the guys to ask what they thought, then I realized it’s more appropriate to ask the RedMonk community. Granted, this blog doesn’t have enough reach to get to the entire RedMonk community… or does it, via the few subscribers I have already? I assume that James and Steve and Cote’ are subscribed, if not, I’m going to kick their butts. Via those three I theoretically reach the entire community. This came up because in working my web start page where I can immediately and quickly know what’s happening in my world I realized I wan t one feed for everything that’s coming out of the RedMonk blogspace, not a bunch of different ones. I made a first cut at it with FeedBlendr. But that doesn’t include the comments and I wonder if relying on some other service is the right way to go. FeedBlendr doesn’t make it very easy to edit a blended feed once it’s created and the monks are shortly moving to WordPress, so I would fairly immediately need to edit it. There’s FeedDigest too, but it’s not accepting new registrations. It seems like something FeedBurner should do and we already trust our feeds to them, so that’d be an easy choice if they offered it. […]

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