NetVibes
OH my God. I haven’t had so much fun in months!
Someone has gone and done it - built a DLA tool.
Doesn’t recognize micro-content yet - but I’m sure it will. It’s mainly a text editor, link aggregator, RSS displayer, custom UIer right now - but what a fantastic start!
Congrats to Florent!
September 17th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
Marc,
Yeah, NetVibes is great. Have you tried protopage.com? I posted about NetVibes earlier, and did a round up of some similar services too:
http://mashable.com/2005/09/17/netvibes-another-funky-ajax-start-page/
I can’t wait until my startpage becomes more powerful than my desktop. In many ways, I think we’re almost there. On the other hand, widgets (or gadgets, if you ask MS) are making the desktop useful again…
September 18th, 2005 at 1:39 am
It’s bass ackwards. This is yet another portal start /home page with a collection of links for *you* to follow. It is not a DLA of all your stuff for other people to read.
I want My Yahoo, Google IG and all the others to be reversed and become Your Yahoo, Your Google IG and so on.
That is what you’re doing with onGoing, right?
September 19th, 2005 at 11:12 am
* “Opera and Safari supports to come …”
I’m currently debating whether or not I should be annoyed by this message. While I’m a big fan of the idea of getting the product out the door, I personally would never do it at the expense of displaying a message like the one above.
I cannot state this strongly enough: First impressions are the most important. NetVibes may have Safari support by next week, but my initial irritation may guarantee that I don’t care about them by then. This principle is way more important in the Web 2.0 world, because with the rise of rapid application development tools like Rails, you can code up a replacement for something like NetVibes in a matter of a few days. Just look at what got accomplished in 24 hours during Rails Day.
Fortunately, they do play nicely with FireFox, so they get some forgiveness there. But FireFox isn’t my default browser, so this can hardly function as my homepage.
(Incidentally, I have to switch to FireFox to comment on your blog because your blog + TypeKey don’t play nicely with Safari.)
* What Julian said.
It’s still a long way from where we want to be.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Well, I thought IÒd pass this on just in case IÒm beginning to seem unfairly biased against the lying, deceitful Å