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.
The blog says “It looks like Google Personalized but it’s going to be much better.” Ok, so let’s give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it will be extensible. Is it also going to integrate directly with the desktop operating system? Of course not. I am the champion of the small startup but I just can’t condone this kind of irresponsible behavior anymore. 
Yes, I will continue to write about new ajax homepages, but I guarantee I will become more vitriolic with each one.
Here’s my list of current Ajax or Flash Homepages:
- Eskobo
- favoor
- Goowy (Flash, not Ajax)
- HomePortals
- Microsoft Live
- Netvibes
- Pageflakes
- Protopage
- Wrickr
- Zoozio
You can add MyYahoo to the list now. MyY now features drag-and-drop repositioning of modules, plus a variety of other new features. There’s a lot left to do, and we’re working on it, but this helps bring MyY to a new level of richness and usability.
Hi,
You can add new ajax portal http://www.myhommy.com
and this one http://www.linkedfeed.com …
Hah, Mike Arrington is the new Alan Greenspan.
Oh my God, there are more?
Sweet demo:
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geez. how many startup page services does this world need?
Ah man, not another one! The bandwagon is now completely full!
And not to forget this cool digg/del.icio.us inspired feed reader with with social bookmarking: http://www.feedbutler.com
Hidden commercial? Yes im the one person who is developing it all alone in my spare time
But please check it out.
What’s with the name?
Wrickr… Flickr..
wrickr’s products look interesting, however i wasn’t able to check them out coz there are loadsssss of dead links and errors on their web site…
The best startpage application !
A poll is available right here :
http://webosphe...ge-application/
What is this asshole Michael up to? This site used to be interesting. Now all I find is a link to a site that is going to be there sometime in the future, with the developer of that site claiming that the site is going to be better than Google.
zse: he’s writing in his own damned blog. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it. Let’s not turn the comment section into a pale imitation of slashdot or digg.
I don’t think I would ever use these products for my home page (even though I did play with a couple to see their power.. scripts and such embedded) But running my own community site, this would be great for a user profile page. Give the user options to add pic, info on them selves and links. They can then make their profile page look how ever they wanted. So I need one created into a module for postnuke
Fold is also another start page thing, but it’s not even live yet. It was reported yesterday at Ajaxian.
On a side note, I wouldn’t blame Michael for deleting comments that are downright insulting.
Another one: http://itsastart.com/
There are hundreds more where that came from.
Mike,
I think you need to re-evaluate your direction. When you started, you use to just report on new startups and let others decide in the comments. Now, you are attacking these startups that look up to you to help get the word out. What happened, man?
You said you didn’t want to be a Phil Kaplan but you are now making inflammatory comments like him wanting people to flame or bash Wrickr. What the heck did Wrickr do to deserve this?
First, you are offbase with the following comment:
// Is it also going to integrate directly with the desktop operating system? [Link to Microsoft Live.com] Of course not.//
You should have asked your friend Scoble and realize this statement is wrong and incorrect for several reasons. But you made the inaccurate statement to put down Wrickr in a condescending way. You also called them ‘irresponsible’ for some reason.
You might need to chill out. I’m unsubscribing too until you get back to your main purpose of obsessively profiling Web 2.0 and stop these bashing/dismissing of startups and the tech entrepenuers ambitions. Right now, all you are doing is attracting negative people to join you in on the bashing and you will be like that fdcompany site with stickyfinger/johnwoo comments if you keep this up….
Ed, I was kidding. I’ll put a smiley face in to make that clear. I don’t want anyone to think that I am being condescending. If I disliked the service that much I would have just not written about it.
That being said, I do wonder at how people choose to spend their time.
Here’s a great example of AJAX used for a right reason:
http://www.metak.com
Enjoy!
I think people need to realize companies like this aren’t jumping on the bandwagon. Do you really think the all coded their sites in a few months after the first Ajax desktop idea popped up? It’s unfortunate that so many startups decided to enter that space, but in the end the users win – they’ll compete and the best will be left standing.
If a web start page is going to integrate with a desktop OS then it should really be integrating with all of them; Win, Mac, Linux. The point of these Ajax desktops is that they are *not* tied to your OS so that you can gain access to it from anywhere and from any device. Microsoft is probably going to use their “live” apps to try to lock users into their desktop OS. I don’t understand why you think this is a good thing.
I’m looking forward to the vitriol.
I hope all these web 2.0 companies go IPO so I can make some money. until then I’m sticking to my blank start page.
Your are obsessed with these:-)
I think the point is not that a lot of people is building an ajax homepage because they consider it a terrific project.
That’s only an apparent validation of a huge opportunity.
It’s just that it is a relatively simple project.
Trying to be realistic, as of development, a project of this type can be delivered in 10-15 days by an individual developer.
If you know a good freelancer, we are talking about maybe $5000.
I am much more a developer than a business person, but I guess that if one really wants to build a company around an ajax homepage, he is sitting at a brand-development, not a web-development table.
I wouldn’t put more than a couple of euros on one that goes online tomorrow unless some brand is already there.
All of the above is, of course completely false if you are trying to visualize how a smarter homepage looks like. And I don’t see that as being about 1 or 2 extra micro-features.
sorry for the long comment.
a new another one : linkfeed
http://www.linkedfeed.com/
Well, I just had to make my own. I hate the full fledged AJAX homepages. Too many features in my opinion.
http://www.homemarks.com/
Well, I just had to make my own. I hate the full fledged AJAX homepages. Too many features in my opinion.