Personal homepages are popping up all over the place from companies like Google and Netvibes but YourMinis.com has one really unique feature. First off it is a little different from the classic offerings of Google and Netvibes because this has more of a widget appearance. You can drag items around and place them wherever you want on the screen instead of having the standard column layout.
YourMinis.com does offer tabs like many other personal homepages but it has one option that I have not seen anywhere else. In the upper-right corner of the screen you’ll see a transparent cube-like shape like the one pictured to the right. Clicking on that will take you to a grid view that displays thumbnails of all your tabs on one single page. This is very similar to the Foxpose extension for Firefox except this is only for your personalized homepage. Is that not special enough for you yet? Well, each view is actually interactive and you can re-position or move modules from one tab to another simply by dragging and dropping them.
I won’t be leaving Netvibes for this service but the multi-tab view is amazing. I love being able to drag-n-drop modules across tabs and being able to rearrange them without ever leaving that view. Maybe other companies will start to see the usefulness of this feature and create their own version.
Thanks for the positive words! We’ve been working hard to get the product out and we’re going to continually improve it, taking the suggestions of our members to heart. The multiple tab view that you referred to is one of our favorite pieces of functionality as well.
Watch for our directory of published tabs which will be released in the next two weeks – we think it will bring yet another dimension to our application.
So the only question I’m left with is what’s keeping you at NetVibes? Are we missing something? Do we have to somehow make the experience different? Would love to know what you think…
I love this service too. The Firefox extension is amazing. It’s like combining Opera Widgets and Firefox. I don’t know if Opera still has this feature, but I remember in a previous release choosing widgets would make the screen (in the browser) go a little dark and have a sort of film on the webpage with the widgets clearly on top of that screen. I don’t know exactly what that’s called. But this is what the yourminis extension does and it works flawlessly. I tried this and Netvibes and I like this site more just because it’s flash. Everything is instantaneous and with Netvibes I sometimes had trouble moving their widgets (whatever they’re called) around my pages.
Honestly I am actually more of a column kind of person. I like to be able to drag things around and arrange them so that they all line up nicely on the page.That is what I wrote and in the middle of writing that I thought to myself “wait a minute…they wouldn’t have made it so that I can resize the widgets would they?” Then I went back to the page just to notice that you can resize almost everything! Okay, that just convinced me to switch but I wouldn’t mind some of the other modules to be resizable as well, like the search box.
This is typically referred to as LightBox and you can see an example of it being [huddletogether.com]
Yeah I have that script installed but I didn’t realize that it’s referred to LightBox as a whole. I just thought that was a wacky name for a g-monkey script.