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Personal Web Portals
Otherwise Known as
Start Pages
What are they?
• Ajax-based startpage• Web top• Personal web portal• Page aggregator
– Netvibes, My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Page Flakes, Wakooz, and Microsoft Live.
– Personalize site with feeders of sites of interest.
WebTop
• Rich internet application • Runs in a web browser• Integrates various web-based applications
(Widgets)• Information feeds• Virtual office applications• Social software• Small scale Personal Learning Environment
What goes on a page?
• RSS/Atom feeds• Calendar• Notes• Web search• Weather forecast• del.icio.us
bookmarks• Flickr photos
• Social networking tools• Facebook• YouTube• Twitter
• Email• User-created
modules
Framework
• ASP.NET 2.0– ASP.NET AJAX components– JavaScript– XML/VBScript source code
• Widget Engine
Widget Engine
• Software service available to users for running and displaying applets on a graphical user interface.
• Attractive because of ease of development• Created with a few images and about 10
to several hundred lines of code.• A single host software system, such as a
web browser, runs all the loaded widgets.
Netvibes
• Free web service– brings together your favorite
media sources and online services
• Everything that matters to you– blogs, news, weather, videos,
photos, social networks, email and much more
– is automatically updated every time you visit your page.
My Yahoo
Page Flakes
• Participate in the Pageflakes community– sharing your page as a
“Pagecast” with a private group or with the world, and connecting with other users across the globe.
– Over 235,000 Flakes and 140,000 Pagecasts are available
WaKooz
• Works with Netvibes• Complete Feeder site• Works like any other personalized page.
Windows Live
• More Detailed• May be for the
business person
iGoogle
• Individual pages• Group page• “add stuff” option
Other Pages
• Protopage Homepage• Pageflakes• Webwag Homepage• Deskie Homepage• AJAX Desktop StartPage
Sources
• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Pageflakes• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Webtop• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/File:RadarNetworksTowardsAWebOS.jpg• http://alstrasoft.com/ajax-desktop-startpage-enterprise.htm• http://www.protopage.com/• http://optrata.com/• http://www.ajaxprojects.com/ajax/projects/Cool_AJAX_sites/Purefect.php• http://www.start.com/• http://www.webwag.com/• http://sites.google.com/site/dawncorley/igoogle-productivity• http://cid-bf15ec6be79c12ad.spaces.live.com/• http://www.wakooz.com/slideshow/slideshow.php?language=EN• http://teacher.pageflakes.com/• http://www.pageflakes.com/Default.aspx• http://my.yahoo.com/• http://www.netvibes.com/#General• http://www.deskie.com/