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

Future?

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/