Interesting article on how Netvibes can be configured into a ‘Blog Maintenance Start Page’,
Blog Tip: Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes
Startpages are gaining in popularity with Netvibes boasting of the user base of 5 million. The concept reminds me in one sense of the ‘portal page’ concept of the late 90s. Damn that makes me sound old.
The idea being you could start your internet session at this page that provided a collection of stories and articles. At the time the content was company specific, the Eircom portal page offered some news but mainly pushed their services. But the usefulness of a portal is determined buy the relevancy of the content, the one size fits all portal approach the late 90s could not deliver to the individual on an individual basis. You start to search and Google become everyone’s start page.
These days the technology has come along way and utilising the aggregated web served by widgets, users can create ‘personalised’ startpages, the next generation in portals.
Interesting times ahead for the web industry.
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