Comments on: CyberNotes: Netvibes Saves You Some Time

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:34:16 +0000

That just seems too cluttered for me. Sorry.

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:47:55 +0000

You might also be interested in a brand new start page available called Funky Homepage ([FunkyHomepage.com]). It’s comprised mainly of Google gadgets (as well as Gadgets from other sources), live news feeds (with your choice of news provider), daily Bushisms, daily jokes, horoscopes, videos, weather (up to 5 locations), interactive calendar, Google calendar viewer (for up to 5 Google calendars), comic strips and lots more besides. It also lets you choose your own search engine, colour scheme, etc.

Unlike many of the other personalised start pages available, there’s no need to create an account and it’s all already set up for you, with the most popular gadgets organised by category and sub-category. So there’s virtually no setting-up work required by the user, making it ideal for the mainstream audience and those (like me) who can’t be bothered to do all the work of setting up their own page. More adventurous (and less lazy) users can choose to add their own Google gadgets and RSS feeds, but most people just use the gadgets and tools provided.

Unlike Netvibes, PageFlakes and all the other AJAX powered home pages, Funky Homepage does not use a drag and drop interface. Instead it allows you to select from a drop-down list of the most “popular” gadgets and feeds – “popular” according to the Google gadgets most popular list, that is. As such, it’s not really intended to compete with the flexibility of Netvibes and PageFlakes, but instead is intended to address a gap in the market for those who want something a bit more funky than Google or Yahoo, but without all the setting up required of Netvibes and Pageflakes. So only the most popular gadgets are offered. Although it still maintains a large degree of flexibility for the more adventurous users, allowing them to enter their own feeds and gadgets, should they wish. Whether you like it or hate it, at least it offers an alternative from the plethora of AJAX-powered homepages that are now available.

It’s free to use and you can check it out at [funkyhomepage.com]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:55:10 +0000

The feed will need to be setup to allow the numbers to be displayed. This is a setting in Feedburner.

By: Massimiliano

Massimiliano — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:28:21 +0000

Hi, I do not succeed to visualize more feed than one whith your beautiful module, I insert my three different URI and i separate them with a comma but the first is the only visualized. Can you help me please?

By: bloodsugarwilksm

bloodsugarwilksm — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:29:25 +0000

Hey now, I love your site and I get on every single day multiple times! You NEED me!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:17:02 +0000

Hawkeyes, hmmm…. *user account deleted*

By: bloodsugarwilksm

bloodsugarwilksm — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:12:46 +0000

Ryan this Netvibes site rocks! I’ve been using Google Reader ever since I discovered it in the Google Lab but now I’m totally switched to Netvibes and I love it.

BTW, I KNEW you lived in Ames! I’m from Iowa City (Hawkeyes ) but I have family that went to Iowa State.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:30:19 +0000

I don’t think Google will be doing that because they already have started to create their own competing service…however I guess that’s what happened with YouTube. Maybe if other companies like Yahoo or Microsoft go after them then Google will too.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:36:18 +0000

In other news, Google have purchased Netvibes

I wonder how long it will take

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:56:47 +0000

Yes, that is definitely nice. I do wish that there was a “Refresh All” button though.

After a few days with Netvibes I Began to wonder how I used anything else.