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netvibes, pageflakes, igoogle, live.com

28 Mar 2008

Recently I asked about Pageflakes and it appears that we have more questions than answers about these different personalized start pages, written in AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) (…I learned something new ;) ) that allow you to create a page with various widgets and RSS feeds. As I always have a project in mind when I tackle new technology, I discovered that Netvibes is the application preferred by  Digital Ethnography but there are not any other instances, as far as my research as revealed, of any of these desktops as courseware platforms.

Last night (or was it in the wee hours of the morning?), I found this article on Cnet.com.au in early March. Their verdict, #1 is Netvibes, and #2 Pageflakes. 

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Hope you enjoy this find as much as I did. :) 

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4 comments

  1. Netvibes and PagesFlakes are great tools and are followed by a bunch of others. They all favor on-line activity at personal level.
    I think the next stage it to have those tools working behind the firewall to build personalised intranets.

         by Olivier Amprimo 30 Mar 2008 at 03:21

  2. You should check out Odysen at http://www.odysen.com.

    Big difference is a very minimalistic style (giving you maximum amount of page) and free-formatting widgets (allowing you to change the size of widgets to whatever you want).

         by matt 31 Mar 2008 at 03:17

  3. personalised intranets… that is an interesting direction, Olivier. For my purposes, keeping everything open & free is key for experimentation purposes.

    Matt, I did peruse Odysen and I really like the free-formating widgets. One thing I like about pageflakes is they have a teacher site (http://teachers.pageflakes.com), with gradebook features and task lists. Does Odysen offer anything similar? Obviously, given the personalised page is free, there is nothing that would stop me from considering Odysen seriously.

         by eac 3 Apr 2008 at 04:20

  4. I think you should also have a look at ClutterMe.com - the easiest way to personalize a page on the Web.

    If you think this site is worth a separate blog post I would love to publish your blog post on our blog and perhaps on our site itself.

    Thanks,
    Mark
    CEO and Founder ClutterMe Inc.

         by Mark 14 Apr 2008 at 04:44

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