PageOnce, the personalized homepage for account management that I put up against more traditional homepages like Netvibes and PageFlakes in February, has opened its doors to the public.
Its launch comes after a private beta period where it collected 20,000 registered users and built up support for more than 60,000 account types. These range from bank accounts to flight itineraries to social network profiles. The idea is that you can monitor and manage all of your online services in one place.
Since our last look at PageOnce, it has added a news feed-like feature that gives you an overview of all the changes that have taken place across your accounts. See when your checking account runs out, your flight gets delayed, you get sent a message on MySpace, etc.
PageOnce has also rolled out a series of improvements to particular account types. For example, the box for a cell phone account will estimate your wireless usage and predict whether you’re likely to go over your minutes. Accounts with customer support numbers can be called with one click from PageOnce itself, and many services can be signed into with just one click as well. Email support has also been further developed so it’s more like a proper webmail interface.
Top providers currently include Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, MySpace, Hotmail, Amazon, AT&T, Netflix, Flickr, Skype, American Express, and Ebay. I’m told that 50% percent of people have set up financial accounts, despite the security concerns that many commenters expressed on my first post (PageOnce assures us that it actively monitors against ID theft and fraud, and uses military level security standards).
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Logging in once is always nice, but someone really has to explain why I would want to check Facebook, my bank account, Netflix and my email at the same time. I checked it out and some things are just better kept disparate.
I’ve been using a custom built script to do some of these tasks up until now. Registering to check out the service and it’s potentials.
I actually really like this service and find it to be much more relevant and useful than iGoogle and Netvibes. The security thing is a little sketchy, but I use it anyways…come on…they’re in Palo Alto I’m sure it’s legit.
I don’t use it everyday although I probably will more and more as my accounts increase.
“military level” security standards, oh please.
I have been using Pageonce for a few months now and have found it to be a great way to manage my financial and social accounts. I have over 30 accounts in there currently. One of the best features has been the ability to put in and manage all the airmile accounts for my entire family. I know exact how many miles we all have and get notified anytime new miles post or one of us has a new trip coming up. If you haven’t you should check them out.
Whenever I come to a website that proudly put the symbol “Hacker Safe”, I’m getting a false sense of security of the website ability to secure their website. Because the people who put up Hacker Safe logo pays a good amount of money to have it up and it doesn’t do what it suppose to do. I remembered talking to a website that has Hacker Safe and asked whether the website guarantee my personal data won’t be compromise, the website told me that’s ridiculous. I told him then why you have Hacker Safe then … He told Hacker Safe is just to tell me the website is secure. Well then, from my perspective isn’t security about giving me the assurance my data won’t be compromise?? The fact that these websites putting up logos saying they are safe and in their terms of service state otherwise that they are not at all liable for anything, don’t give me any assurance about these logos, in fact it’s garnering to borderline scamming. Post something and in term of service say another. I wouldn’t touch these websites, kinda remind me of mint.com.
Simple one click access to a variety of accounts and aggregated reports is hardly a new thing. Yodlee.com has provided that service for close to a decade now. Is there any other value add? I like newly launched Mint.com for the valuable insights they provide after crunching all kinds of personal finance data.
Scary security implications. Stuff like that should NEVER be on a webpage somewhere.
I have scripts that wipe my ass for me, but i’ll try this toilet paper you speak of…
What are “military level security standards”?
I’ve been using the service throughout private beta and have actually enjoyed it. But, for some reason, I am now using the service less and less. Tough to say exactly why. Just have to see how it goes.
I started to use it couple of weeks ago, I visit weekly and it is pretty useful
If I can do all that on a single webpage, then what should I do rest of the workday?
A nice idea actually, but usability is awfull.
To check your e-mail you have to pixel-hunt “more info” instead of clicking on the bigger items.
Didn’t the Pentagon network get penetrated by hackers a little while ago? Is that the military level security that they’re talking about? Or are they just using AES somewhere in the system and that makes them “military level”?
I hate stupid and empty security claims.
I get the single-sign-on feature, as it’s a pain to input passwords every time - but this could be done with a firefox plug-in I guess. The social networks send all the info to my mailbox anyway, and this is a single point of contact for me. The financial info - mint and other specialised services will always be better at that. Mail integration… hmmm this is worth considering, but not really setting up an account yet. As for the rest (phone bills, reservations etc.) - isn’t it just a load of information we can seriously live without?
Safe or not, your passwords are accessible by the nice folks at PageOnce.
If you are looking for 1-click logins without giving up your privacy, you might consider Clipperz, a web based and open source password manager. (http://www.clipperz.com)
At Clipperz all your data are locally encrypted by the browser itself _before_ being submitted.
And it works with most websites, not just those supported by Pageonce.
You can use the hosted service at the URL above or download and install a personal instance of Clipperz on your own server.
Of course, this is very biased advice!
Marco
Clipperz co-founder
I just started to use the service a month ago. I love the service. It was fast to set up and its become my start page.
When I first started to use it in Feburary I just put in my social networks and a few shopping sites and my cell phone but after seeing how easy it was to use I added in a bunch of credit cards and my checking an savings account. I love being able to see everything on one page.
Does anyone know if they have a “presence” consolidator? I hate that I’m supposed to update Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook separately.
Love it, I wish they will add RSS feeds
they were able to get the balance on my Starbucks card. I didn’t put my bank account, but credit card work well
1. No Auto refresh (or at least i did not see one).
2. You can hide a category but not a particular account.
3. You can not move category tabs and re-arrange them..
except these…very nice to know that you can see everything at one place..
@23 Each account has a refresh now button to refresh the data which I use from time to time. I wish there was a refresh all one.
Nice Concept !
It looks like a service/feature a bank should be providing .
Whole thing creeps me out, man. Creeps me out.
I use page once and find it really useful to have all my accounts in one place.
I look forward to seeing them succeed. I bet this one will flip fast.
I travel a lot and its made things a lot easier when I’m on the road. Saves a lot of time and money when I’m paying by the minute to use the internet and if I don’t see any new activity in a particular account, I don’t have to waste time logging in.