Comments on: 2007 CyberNet Awards: Most Innovative Services

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:11:15 +0000

Ryan,

thanks for the explanation. I get your point.

Still, I’d prefer some way of accessing my del.icio.us bookmarks. Either via mobilicio.us service or like described in this tip.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:25:08 +0000

Leonid Mamchenkov wrote:

I haven’t tried Opera Link myself yet, but I don’t see how is it so much innovative.

The reason why I believe this is such a big deal is because it synchronizes your bookmarks with your mobile browser. I don’t know if you use a web browser on your cellphone, but having all of my desktop bookmarks available on my cellphone is a huge time saver. I can’t stand typing in websites into my phone!

Anonymous wrote:

Agree except Yahoo! Mail which I think is one of the worst bloated services. Their customer services sucks too…for the past few days, I haven’t been able to sign OUT of Yahoo! Mail and their customer service is useless….loading also takes a hell lot of time compared to Gmail or Hotmail…although feature-wise it’s nice, it’s performance, implementation and annoyances are many and it’s UI is too cluttered. Definitely not one of the top apps.

The performance of Yahoo! Mail is actually rather good for me. The first time I load it in my browser it’s a bit slow, but after I’ve got most of the stuff cached it’s pretty quick.

netster007x wrote:

Wow, I’m surprised you gave Y!Mail a spot on the list. Nice, I’d say it sure earned it.

Just because I don’t use a service or product doesn’t mean I don’t recognize when they step out of the box. I’m the same way with Mac’s…I don’t use them but I never hesitate to point out the things that they do right.

epiac1216 wrote:

I would vote for “My Yahoo” as the Most Innovative Service Award for 2007. You can customize this Website to your heart’s delight. Some of the options available are: news, calendar, event planner, bookmarks, Wall Street portfolios, weather, your favorite teams scoreboards and a whole lot more.

The new My Yahoo! is definitely pretty nice, but I still have to give Netvibes the slight edge because of their enhanced widgets that they offer. Particularly their integrated feed reader that is really impressive.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:29:58 +0000

Wow, I’m surprised you gave Y!Mail a spot on the list. Nice, I’d say it sure earned it.

By: jacques

jacques — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:09:14 +0000

I should place Opera Links 1st
Yahoo! My Yahoo 2nd
Paint.Net is neither a bird of the year, neither a service. But I like it enough to give it a 3rd place.
Placed as they come to my mind.

By: epiac1216

epiac1216 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:01:20 +0000

@Ryan:

I would vote for “My Yahoo” as the Most Innovative Service Award for 2007. You can customize this Website to your heart’s delight. Some of the options available are: news, calendar, event planner, bookmarks, Wall Street portfolios, weather, your favorite teams scoreboards and a whole lot more.

This place is so great, I have selected it as my Home Page. It recently got an excellent facelift from Yahoo.

URL: http://my.yahoo.com/

Regards,

Omar.-

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:10:38 +0000

I love Yahoo Mail. Each to their own

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:04:04 +0000

Agree except Yahoo! Mail which I think is one of the worst bloated services. Their customer services sucks too…for the past few days, I haven’t been able to sign OUT of Yahoo! Mail and their customer service is useless….loading also takes a hell lot of time compared to Gmail or Hotmail…although feature-wise it’s nice, it’s performance, implementation and annoyances are many and it’s UI is too cluttered. Definitely not one of the top apps.

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:50:56 +0000

I haven’t tried Opera Link myself yet, but I don’t see how is it so much innovative. Google Browser Sync has been available for a while now. There were also numerous scripts to sync bookmarks from Firefox, Opera, and MSIE between different locations for AGES. And then there are all those bookmarking services like del.icio.us, etc. Most of them provide buttons, toolbars, plugins, or bookmarklets to easily integrate with the browser of your choice. With that, you can easily keep your bookmarks synchronized between different locations.

The idea is a few years old, and there are so many available implementations of it, that I don’t see how it fits the innovation wave in the end of 2007.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:29:05 +0000

Newzie is the ultimate RSS feed reader and even notifies you when web pages of interest have been updated.

Had to be good to get me to drop Google reader.

By: Basel

Basel — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:25:46 +0000

100% agree. Opera link is the most innovative piece of web technology created this year. It wasn’t a service that have gotten better, it simply is brand new.
Yahoo mail is something too. It has put Gmail to shame with its features.

Great post.

By: DaComboMan

DaComboMan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:46:16 +0000

Opera may be pretty good for innovations like the new history search, the startpage and bookmarks backed up to their server but the later feature is far from being solid yet. That’s understandable as it is still in an Alpha testing phase. Two out of three ain’t bad as some would say but i would not give them a 10 out 10 reason being for this flaw.

Netvibes should be first if we want to talk about solid performance combined with improvements.