My search before:carb blocker phase

by loyort657 on Tues. Apr. 22, 2008

30 Boxes, the online calendaring startup, just launched a new ajax start page called Webtop. The service allows you to add links to your favorite web services including Gmail, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Webshots, Meebo and your 30 Boxes calendar. …

Fold and Pageflakes and the others were just way too slow to be my default page. Google IG had no font options so my 20 or so feeds would take up way too much space on the page (not a big fan of scrolling).

I just wich feedster had a protopage option since it takes me a few seconds longer to add it to my page.

why?

there’s a few reasons –
1.loading time – for a homepage ajax isn’t exactly light, it take a few seconds to load.

2.all browsers have a great start page already built in – its called a blank page, its light and you can get to anywhere you want with something called an address bar which on some browsers has a search.. whats the first thing you want to do on the web?

3. search. even if its your own information – search is king, firefox search plugins do the job very well. ajax homepages are a nice but do i really want my search results loading within a ’special’ ajax window? not really. Its taking things a bit too far.

please note, this is directed at ajax homepages overall, i’ve never heard of fold.com before today.

oh yes, can i plug my new search plugin for boogla bookmarks? oops already did.

Whilst of course traying many web2.0 applications, few reamin in use after a few hours or days.

Netvibes however is different. Netvibes is now a central part of my whole internet experience. As both a business and a personal user I have now become reliant on netvibes as my portal to the internet.

Netvibes has now introduced its ecosystem which make it even more useful.

Yes! Oh man, Netvibes is amazing. I mean, I’m at least as productive reading feeds with Netvibes as I would be using a dedicated feed reader, especially now that they’ve added awesome keyboard shortcuts. I’ve made some modules; making a module for Netvibes is literally as simple as writing a regular HTML page, and if you know PHP and AJAX, you can make all sorts of crazy things. It’s much better than some other feed readers, too — it combines the best features of them all (reading full-text feeds right on the page, tabs, unread counts, developer API, etc.).

Yes, I use Netvibes as my homepage/feed reader. I used to have more than one page as my homepage, but now, there’s no point. If there hasn’t been much “mainstream” interest in them, then it is because others simply have a personal preference towards dedicated feed readers without “bloat” and features. However, I’ve found Netvibes to allow me to be more productive by allowing me to completely customize my feed reading experience.