Comments on: Zoozio – Hey, Another AJAX Desktop!

By: samfind

samfind — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:12:21 +0000

Lets see if anyone comes out with anything better…

sam

By: TechCrunch en français » Fold.com: c’est terminé

TechCrunch en français » Fold.com: c’est terminé — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:20:43 +0000

[...] Dans notre premier billet sur Fold nous nous interrogions sur la pertinence de leur approche alors que les pages d’accueil poussaient comme des champignons. Nous indiquions déjà que le marché était saturé. L’un de leur concurrent Zoozio venait de changer de nom et de modèle économique et un autre Wrickr doit bientôt ouvrir. Les autres sont toujours là (GtalkR lui aussi à fermé) [...]

By: Projects

Projects — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:14:59 +0000

Looks like more of the same… fold.com has folded

By: Zimbio - The People’s Guide to the Web » Solution Watch

Zimbio - The People’s Guide to the Web » Solution Watch — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:02:26 +0000

[...] Remember Zoozio? The service that many have assumed to be yet another start page? Well, Zoozio is now called Zimbio and rather then being yet another start page like it has been thought to be, Zimbio is a feature packed, people powered, web portal of information on just about anything. Zimbio is all about helping people learn from others on the web. In other words, user submitted content plays a big role in their service and in turn the content will make Zimbio an excellent source of information for helping others learn and easily find what they are in search for. [...]

By: BackupBrain: My MicroISV Venture » Blog Archive » ThoughtFiler: Reasons I should not bother…

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:37:19 +0000

[...] Eskobo, favoor,Fold.com, Google,Goowy (Flash, not Ajax), Gtalkr (Flash), HomePortals,Microsoft Live, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Protopage, Wrickr, Zoozio. [...]

By: TechCrunch » Ajax Desktops Won’t Stop

TechCrunch » Ajax Desktops Won’t Stop — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:50:17 +0000

[...] Zoozio [...]

By: TechCrunch » Fold.com - Why?

TechCrunch » Fold.com - Why? — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:00:26 +0000

[...] Zoozio Fold.com Tags: ajax, fold, fold.com, techcrunch, web2.0, web 2.0 Categories: Company & Product Profiles | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us [...]

By: TechCrunch » Yes! This Week’s Ajax Homepage

TechCrunch » Yes! This Week’s Ajax Homepage — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:55:04 +0000

[...] Zoozio Categories: Company & Product Profiles | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us [...]

By: TechCrunch » Yep, One More Ajax Desktop - Pageflakes

TechCrunch » Yep, One More Ajax Desktop - Pageflakes — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:20:45 +0000

[...] Zoozio [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:29:32 +0000

there’s a patent pending for this stuff…

http://cgi.ebay...1QQcmdZViewItem

By: Entreprenuer Geek

Entreprenuer Geek — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:25:44 +0000

Goowy – Groovy desktop Web2.0 style

Looks like the web desktop market is crowding already! These Web 2.0 applications allow you to manage your email, contacts, RSS feeds, podcasts, searches, and then they do some more.
There was a post on TechCrunch that led me to Goowy.

Goowy is…

By: Tom Sucks » “Web 2.0″ Homepages

Tom Sucks » “Web 2.0″ Homepages — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:43:45 +0000

[...] While I too hate the whole web 2.0 hype, the idea is about a more advanced website than the one we see today. I prefer to call it the Semantic Web as the creator of the web does… just seems more proper to keep in step with the king. As well, unlike Web 2.0, the semantic web is actually defined (ironicly, the web2.0 page is marked as too confusing for readers, since it’s hard to write a page about something that isn’t properly definable). Anyway, if we’re going to create a browser (Flock) to better integrate with the semantic web (and therefore the nothing that web 2.0 adds other than buzz), we should do it right. Why force people to find the good web 2.0 sites on their own? I mean sure, flock points them at wordpress.com and Flickr immediately (the former of which refuses to let me type a post body), but is that really the best examples? I’m thinking they need to show off Netvibes and other AJAX desktops. [...]

By: Evan T.

Evan T. — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:49:43 +0000

I have also looked into innoscript’s porcupine. it’s open, object-oriented and it rocks!

By: Library clips :: Netvibes again… :: November :: 2005

Library clips :: Netvibes again… :: November :: 2005 — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:06:38 +0000

[...] As Techcrunch listed now we have: Protopage, Netvibes, Goowy, Google personalised, Windows Live, and now Zoozio. Comments » [...]

By: George T.

George T. — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:00:08 +0000

Check out this fantastic AJAX desktop example, called porcupine:

http://www.innoscript.org/

They have an online demo (link on the left). This is a REAL desktop on the web. They have open sourced this technology, that (on their own words) is:

“Porcupine is a web application server that provides an object oriented framework for developing web applications rapidly.”

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:59:16 +0000

Hello, I have some screenshots and URLs up at my site. Looks really cool guys! I signed up for beta, I really like the feedroll on alpha0, really sweet!

Sorry for spying out your URL’s, you shouldn’t take them down!! :O)

By: Florent

Florent — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:11:38 +0000

Hi Alexander,
My answer was related to the fact that you thought netvibes.com was a bot.
We DO cache the results, though we also let the user reload the feed manually and that may be an issue with people abusing of this feature, we may just let them reload from our cache

By: Alexander Turcic

Alexander Turcic — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:00:35 +0000

There’s one mega issue I have against Netvibes (your favorite): their feed aggregator sucks bandwidth in the worst way:

- they don’t respect TTL
- they don’t support conditional gets (304)
- they don’t support compression

And worst of all: they don’t cache the results, so that for each subscriber, they refetch the feed each time! I was in contact with Florent from netvibes and his response was this: “When netvibes request your feeds it’s because users have them on their pages. So it’s much like users using your feed from desktop rss reader.”

That’s very bad practice!

By: Hakan Bilgin

Hakan Bilgin — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 23:11:02 +0000

Nader, I agree to David Marsh but there is one more important issue that should be pointed out.

In each computer you’re using you’ll have to install the specific softwares to get the most of your computer use.

This means that you’ll have to buy and install X licenses for Y computer you are using. As a non-corporate consumer this might not be an issue (by downloading wareZ) but for corporates this is expensive and time consuming to maintain. I think you know where I am going with this.

Having said that; even though it’s IE only, it’s worth mentioning;

http://www.chal.../core/index.htm

Best regards,
Hakan Bilgin

By: Singpolyma

Singpolyma — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:13:31 +0000

Wow, if I had known there were that many PH’s in the works I never would have started my project… but I started mine before even netvibes was released, so I guess there’s really no way I could have known what was coming. At least in this particular realm decentralisation and competition is not a hindrance (as it is in areas such as email and IM), so at least duplicate work isn’t hurting the industry.

By: Brian O'Doherty

Brian O'Doherty — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:14:26 +0000

Conversate is very similar to the Meeting Rooms in the GroupFactor platform. (www.groupfactor.com). (Which has been around for 3 years). Except the Meeting Rooms also take files, as well as “messages” (e-mail – like but faster and more reliable) and also instant “chat”. In addition, in the Meeting Room, you can right-click to create and edit a new page. You can also encrypt everything in the room, transparently (- about to be released). Not only that, but integrated with it is your Private Box, where you keep your documents online and, via right-click menu, can edit, manage, post them anywhere, etc. (For example, via these remote controls, send a private document into a meeting room, without leaving the server). From any PC with Windows/IE.
See an implementation at http://www.quiknets.com. (Go inside as “Guest Visitor”)
Btw- your “desktop” or home page can be personalised very easily.And the system contains an internal, rich, email-type messaging system, very high speed, reliable and encryptable….so you can say that the GroupFactor platform includes, in one piece of integrated software, many of these trendy new Web 2.0 features all wrapped together. (And its built with javascript, com, dhtml, xml et al)

By: David Marsh

David Marsh — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 08:39:41 +0000

I think the idea is that you have a ‘desktop’ on your PC already, but it’s not available everywhere. By using one of these sites like http://www.protopage.com you can have your desktop and links with you wherever you go.

By: nader

nader — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:51:49 +0000

i like the drag’n'dropping but …

i’m wondering if this is enough to make portals like netvibes, zoozio or protopage distinguishable from portals during the boom times? i recall that a lot of search engines were about to make everything personalised. on yahoo, you could even change the colors of the ugly and crowded homepage. back then they forgot about the user, because actually not very many used those features, thus they silently killed or reduced a lot of them.
i guess users weren’t ready for IT, so maybe it will work out this time, 5 years later … with drag’n'dropping, and hm … an rss reader … hm … and weather info … hm and stock quotes… wait, that doesn’t sound very new.

goowy might be a bit different but …

i didn’t understand desktop replacements in 1999 when there was a heavy javascript “OnlineOS” (don’t remember the exact name, desktop.com?) and i still don’t understand them today. why would i use a desktop, no matter if it’s in ajax or flash, when i’ve got a desktop i’m working on anyway. whether the desktop is a notebook, mobile phone or normal pc doesn’t matter. whether the application might be mail (imap), rss-reader, icq, skype, etc…
the features of such online desktops are way too restricted but often want to recreate everything. i’m not sure about that approach.

this does not mean that i don’t like some features.

By: Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:22:55 +0000

Wow – I actually beat TechCrunch for once! By the way, Mike, you might also want to check out Conversate.org, DabbleDB.com (not yet launched) and Plum.com (also notlaunched), if you haven’t already.

You really should try out conversate.org – I think it’s worth reviewing.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:47:26 +0000

Jason, wow, I can’t believe I left Google IG out. Fixed.