Comments on: The HomePortals Extensible Home Page http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:28:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: John Nail http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-66086 John Nail Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:11:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-66086 While all these portals are "cool" the real issue is finding one that can scale to support true enterprise (2.0) use and HomePortals does just that. I looked at all of them and HomePortals is the only one that I found that is serious about offering business tools which turns into real paying customers. It is flexible and can support real customization in all sorts of content, style sheets and true custom web design. Check out http://www.theindustryradar.com to see a real enterprise tool built on HomePortals with total customization. I needed a real business infrastructure to drive our site and HomePortals provided it! While all these portals are “cool” the real issue is finding one that can scale to support true enterprise (2.0) use and HomePortals does just that.
I looked at all of them and HomePortals is the only one that I found that is serious about offering business tools which turns into real paying customers.
It is flexible and can support real customization in all sorts of content, style sheets and true custom web design.
Check out http://www.theindustryradar.com to see a real enterprise tool built on HomePortals with total customization.
I needed a real business infrastructure to drive our site and HomePortals provided it!

]]> By: Greg Pentland http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-50551 Greg Pentland Mon, 22 May 2006 06:12:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-50551 Ive been doing quite a bit of portal resaearch, and they all seem to be lacking the complete intergrated package,,, security, Document managment? document searching? built in calendars? Ive found personal ones that are cool - http://www.netvibes.com, the only web2.0 one ive found is http://www.ovosuite.com that has a complete solution. Pitty its not live yet. Ive been doing quite a bit of portal resaearch, and they all seem to be lacking the complete intergrated package,,, security, Document managment? document searching? built in calendars?

Ive found personal ones that are cool - http://www.netvibes.com,

the only web2.0 one ive found is http://www.ovosuite.com that has a complete solution. Pitty its not live yet.

]]> By: BackupBrain: My MicroISV Venture » Blog Archive » ThoughtFiler: Reasons I should not bother… http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-19669 BackupBrain: My MicroISV Venture » Blog Archive » ThoughtFiler: Reasons I should not bother… Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:36:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-19669 [...] Eskobo, favoor,Fold.com, Google,Goowy (Flash, not Ajax), Gtalkr (Flash), HomePortals,Microsoft Live, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Protopage, Wrickr, Zoozio. [...] [...] Eskobo, favoor,Fold.com, Google,Goowy (Flash, not Ajax), Gtalkr (Flash), HomePortals,Microsoft Live, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Protopage, Wrickr, Zoozio. [...]

]]> By: TechCrunch » Fold.com - Why? http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-15584 TechCrunch » Fold.com - Why? Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:14:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-15584 [...] HomePortals [...] [...] HomePortals [...]

]]> By: TechCrunch en français » La page d’accueil en ajax de la semaine http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-11828 TechCrunch en français » La page d’accueil en ajax de la semaine Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:58:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-11828 [...] Je deviens nerveux si une nouvelle page d’accueil en ajax ne sort pas toute les 2 semaines. Eh bien aujourd’hui après une longue attente de près de 3 semaines j’ai découvert Wrickr de Steve Rubel. Visitez le blog de Wrickr pour plus d’information. [...] [...] Je deviens nerveux si une nouvelle page d’accueil en ajax ne sort pas toute les 2 semaines. Eh bien aujourd’hui après une longue attente de près de 3 semaines j’ai découvert Wrickr de Steve Rubel. Visitez le blog de Wrickr pour plus d’information. [...]

]]> By: TechCrunch » Yes! This Week’s Ajax Homepage http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-10417 TechCrunch » Yes! This Week’s Ajax Homepage Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:58:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-10417 [...] I start to get nervous if another ajax home page doesn’t launch every two weeks or so. Well, today my long wait of over three weeks finally ended when I heard about Wrickr from Steve Rubel. See the Wrickr blog for more information. [...] [...] I start to get nervous if another ajax home page doesn’t launch every two weeks or so. Well, today my long wait of over three weeks finally ended when I heard about Wrickr from Steve Rubel. See the Wrickr blog for more information. [...]

]]> By: TechCrunch » The HomePortals Extensible Home Page http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-10255 TechCrunch » The HomePortals Extensible Home Page Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:01:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-10255 [...] create a new module (and allows others to copy it), and/or modify attributes of an existing one. Email this | Reply function DoComment() { if( document.getElementById("ctitle").value == "") {document.getElementById("titleError").style.display="inline"; return false; } document.forms[0].action = "http://www.shadows.com/PostBackHelper.aspx"; document.forms[0].method = "POST"; document.getElementById("__VIEWSTATE").value=""; document.getElementById("redirectURL").value = document.location; document.getElementById("ShadowAction").value = "Comment"; document.getElementById("uri").value = "http://www.shadows.com/comment/b1236a7b-ada2-430a-bb11-2b22bb4f3e6d/"; return true; } Comment Title: *required [...] [...] create a new module (and allows others to copy it), and/or modify attributes of an existing one. Email this | Reply function DoComment() { if( document.getElementById(”ctitle”).value == “”) {document.getElementById(”titleError”).style.display=”inline”; return false; } document.forms[0].action = “http://www.shadows.com/PostBackHelper.aspx”; document.forms[0].method = “POST”; document.getElementById(”__VIEWSTATE”).value=”"; document.getElementById(”redirectURL”).value = document.location; document.getElementById(”ShadowAction”).value = “Comment”; document.getElementById(”uri”).value = “http://www.shadows.com/comment/b1236a7b-ada2-430a-bb11-2b22bb4f3e6d/”; return true; } Comment Title: *required [...]

]]> By: Mike Moschini http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6910 Mike Moschini Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:10:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6910 This portal is by far the best looking to come out in a quite a while. I've tried it out and as mentioned before there is little to no help documentation. Additionally, the biggest issue facing these Ajax web portals is a serious lack of bookmarking functionality. by that I mean a easy way to port your bookmarks/favorites to the main page. Another problem is the issue of clicking on a bookmark link and it doesn't open in a new tab. Kind of silly if your using the portal as you home page and you click on something and the page is replaced. This portal is by far the best looking to come out in a quite a while. I’ve tried it out and as mentioned before there is little to no help documentation. Additionally, the biggest issue facing these Ajax web portals is a serious lack of bookmarking functionality. by that I mean a easy way to port your bookmarks/favorites to the main page. Another problem is the issue of clicking on a bookmark link and it doesn’t open in a new tab. Kind of silly if your using the portal as you home page and you click on something and the page is replaced.

]]> By: Kevin Smokler http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6909 Kevin Smokler Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:14:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6909 Seems like ubergeeks only at this point. Why can't you simple drag and drop a .doc to do list in for example? Seems like ubergeeks only at this point. Why can’t you simple drag and drop a .doc to do list in for example?

]]> By: Innerphaze » Blog Archive » links for 2006-01-03 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6893 Innerphaze » Blog Archive » links for 2006-01-03 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 04:38:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6893 [...] TechCrunch » The HomePortals Extensible Home Page HomePortals is really unique in that every module is customizable, and can interface with other web services. So you can create a new module (and allows others to copy it), and/or modify attributes of an existing one. (tags: quicktag) [...] [...] TechCrunch » The HomePortals Extensible Home Page HomePortals is really unique in that every module is customizable, and can interface with other web services. So you can create a new module (and allows others to copy it), and/or modify attributes of an existing one. (tags: quicktag) [...]

]]> By: Ed Dunn http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6886 Ed Dunn Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:53:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6886 Can I comment? Can I comment?

]]> By: Ed Dunn http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6884 Ed Dunn Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:51:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6884 #10 Mark, I think these drag-drop portals will continue to increase in numbers as they are somewhat based on the same open source framework. Basically it will come down to preference and i think those that can find a niche will do good,regardless of the number of drag-drop portals in the space. I personally like protopage but waiting for one that is seriously about becoming a niche and not offer commoditized services. #10 Mark,

I think these drag-drop portals will continue to increase in numbers as they are somewhat based on the same open source framework.

Basically it will come down to preference and i think those that can find a niche will do good,regardless of the number of drag-drop portals in the space. I personally like protopage but waiting for one that is seriously about becoming a niche and not offer commoditized services.

]]> By: Oscar http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6875 Oscar Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:28:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6875 Yosef, you can access a user's page directly by going to cfempire.com/accounts/account_name. That will take you to the user's public page. We are still working on improving the site, and all your comments are an invaluable help. Thanks! Yosef, you can access a user’s page directly by going to cfempire.com/accounts/account_name. That will take you to the user’s public page.
We are still working on improving the site, and all your comments are an invaluable help. Thanks!

]]> By: Ondas, cables, luces, cacharritos y cachivaches » HomePortals: Homepage extensible http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6873 Ondas, cables, luces, cacharritos y cachivaches » HomePortals: Homepage extensible Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:20:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6873 [...] Más detalles (y pantallazo) en el ya indispensable TechCrunch. [...] [...] Más detalles (y pantallazo) en el ya indispensable TechCrunch. [...]

]]> By: Ted Smith http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6870 Ted Smith Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:37:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6870 Networking: Convergence comes to China A number of converged network communications projects are expected to move forward in China this year -- with wired and wireless elements -- spanning from Shanghai to Beijing, experts tell United Press International's Networking. One of the biggest networking projects is China's landmark west-east gas pipeline project (WEPP), which has selected an IP-based converged networking solution from Nortel to power voice and multimedia communications, both wired and wireless, along its 4,200-kilometer route. Operated by PetroChina Company Ltd., a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. By Gene Koprowski Networking: Convergence comes to China
A number of converged network communications projects are expected to move forward in China this year — with wired and wireless elements — spanning from Shanghai to Beijing, experts tell United Press International’s Networking.
One of the biggest networking projects is China’s landmark west-east gas pipeline project (WEPP), which has selected an IP-based converged networking solution from Nortel to power voice and multimedia communications, both wired and wireless, along its 4,200-kilometer route. Operated by PetroChina Company Ltd., a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. By Gene Koprowski

]]> By: Oscar http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6869 Oscar Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:33:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6869 Yosef, you can access user's pages directly by going to cfempire/accounts/user_name, we wanted to do it using subdomains but we had trouble doing this with our hosting company. Thanks for the input! Yosef, you can access user’s pages directly by going to cfempire/accounts/user_name, we wanted to do it using subdomains but we had trouble doing this with our hosting company.
Thanks for the input!

]]> By: Mark http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6855 Mark Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:05:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6855 So now there are at least ten customizable Ajax web portal/homepages. With what criteria do you evaluate these sites? How does one decide which is best? What would the perfect Ajax portal include, and how would it work? Love Chunni's observations-about the naming, and the corporate idea. I would love an Ajax portal on my company intranet. So now there are at least ten customizable Ajax web portal/homepages. With what criteria do you evaluate these sites? How does one decide which is best? What would the perfect Ajax portal include, and how would it work?
Love Chunni’s observations-about the naming, and the corporate idea. I would love an Ajax portal on my company intranet.

]]> By: Saleel http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6854 Saleel Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:26:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6854 This seems like a lot more complicated and different from all the other startup pages. Ofcourse, to a nonprograming shmuck, like myself, most of this only looks pretty. This seems like a lot more complicated and different from all the other startup pages. Ofcourse, to a nonprograming shmuck, like myself, most of this only looks pretty.

]]> By: Yosef http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6853 Yosef Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:25:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6853 To me the power with this is the ability to share desktops. Does netvibes have this ability? This is like a social bookmarking site, but it is social desktoping site or social portal site. I think it is really neat. I do think they need to get a dedicated domain name as cfempire seems to be their development site and this is one of their projects. It would be neat if we could have our own domains for our desktops such as yosef.cfempire.com or cfempire.com/yosef To me the power with this is the ability to share desktops. Does netvibes have this ability? This is like a social bookmarking site, but it is social desktoping site or social portal site. I think it is really neat. I do think they need to get a dedicated domain name as cfempire seems to be their development site and this is one of their projects.

It would be neat if we could have our own domains for our desktops such as yosef.cfempire.com or cfempire.com/yosef

]]> By: testboy http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6846 testboy Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:53:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6846 netvibes.com has a flickr module and a del.icio.us one is soon to come. have a look at http://www.netvibes.com/blog/ . they are constantly adding new features! netvibes.com has a flickr module and a del.icio.us one is soon to come. have a look at http://www.netvibes.com/blog/ . they are constantly adding new features!

]]> By: will http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6843 will Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:16:24 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6843 "there is a pre-created module to show recent del.icio.us bookmarks for a given user, recent flickr pictures for a given user, etc. I have not seen this type of functionality" Well that is one reason Netvibes is so great. They regularly add new modules like their nice flickr module - and i have my del.ici.ous bookmarks there as well via RSS. Stuff added since your last visit i guess. (a ToDO module was added just a few days ago). Homeportals does seem interesting. It is harder to configure than most but it looks like this gives it far more flexibility - for those comfortable with XML/html and whatever. Definitely needs some work - virtually no help/tutorials yet.... I can't get my flickr account to show and it won't remember my gmail account on refresh as two of a few examples. But again, the ability to highly detail makes it interesting. Regards “there is a pre-created module to show recent del.icio.us bookmarks for a given user, recent flickr pictures for a given user, etc. I have not seen this type of functionality”

Well that is one reason Netvibes is so great. They regularly add new modules like their nice flickr module - and i have my del.ici.ous bookmarks there as well via RSS. Stuff added since your last visit i guess. (a ToDO module was added just a few days ago).

Homeportals does seem interesting. It is harder to configure than most but it looks like this gives it far more flexibility - for those comfortable with XML/html and whatever.

Definitely needs some work - virtually no help/tutorials yet…. I can’t get my flickr account to show and it won’t remember my gmail account on refresh as two of a few examples.

But again, the ability to highly detail makes it interesting.

Regards

]]> By: Chunni Babu http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6839 Chunni Babu Mon, 02 Jan 2006 06:43:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6839 Not sure if anyone has used it yet, but I suggest the name Portal 2.0 for these things. Remember the crazy onslaught of portal applications during the late 90s, in the peak of of Web 1.0 bubble? Remember Jetspeed? Weblogic Portal? It will be not long before some company like IBM will create a one of these apps for the corporate world and sell it to management with a tagline like - "all the company's info in the employee's fingertip" Not sure if anyone has used it yet, but I suggest the name Portal 2.0 for these things. Remember the crazy onslaught of portal applications during the late 90s, in the peak of of Web 1.0 bubble? Remember Jetspeed? Weblogic Portal? It will be not long before some company like IBM will create a one of these apps for the corporate world and sell it to management with a tagline like - “all the company’s info in the employee’s fingertip”

]]> By: Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6838 Michael Arrington Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:54:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6838 Alan, dude...either go non-anonymous or kill the condescension. Alan, dude…either go non-anonymous or kill the condescension.

]]> By: Anonymis http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6837 Anonymis Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:50:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6837 its an open source ajax homepage with web based xml editing and its cool its almost like an live.com where you can edit someone elses stuff its an open source ajax homepage with web based xml editing and its cool its almost like an live.com where you can edit someone elses stuff

]]> By: Ravneet http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6836 Ravneet Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:40:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/01/want-to-see-another-ajax-homepage/#comment-6836 Nice review Mike. coldfusion ! woah ! Nice review Mike. coldfusion ! woah !

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