• January 25th, 2006

    This Week's New Ajax Homepage

    I start to get nervous if another ajax home page doesn’t launch every two weeks or so. Well, today my long wait of over three weeks finally ended when I heard about Wrickr from Steve Rubel. See the Wrickr blog for more information. The blog says “It looks like Google Personalized but it’s going to be much better.” Ok, so let’s give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it will be extensible. Is it also going to integrate directly with the desktop operating system? Of course not. I am the champion of the small startup but I just can’t condone this kind of irresponsible behavior anymore. Yes, I will continue to write about new ajax homepages, but I guarantee I will become more vitriolic with each one. Here’s my list of current Ajax or Flash Homepages: Eskobo favoor Google Goowy (Flash, not Ajax) HomePortals Microsoft Live Netvibes Pageflakes Protopage Wrickr Zoozio → Read More

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