{"id":760,"date":"2006-01-17T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T22:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faganfinder.com\/wp\/2006\/01\/17\/760\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T05:12:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T12:12:34","slug":"my-portal-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/760\/","title":{"rendered":"‘my portal’ pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Via Marc Canter<\/a>, I learn that AOL is creating YAPP<\/strong> (yet another personal portal), in the DHTML\/AJAX<\/strong> style. That’s by no means a bad thing, though.<\/p>\n

So now we have all the major players with a personalizable home page: Yahoo!, Google, MSN (Windows Live), and AOL (okay, so theirs is alpha). 3\/4 of those are ‘all cool and ajax-y,’ Yahoo! being the odd one out. Yahoo!’s is the oldest, and I’d be quite surprised if they weren’t planning a new version with a richer interface.<\/p>\n

In the ajax-y arena, there are several which are just as good or better than the major players: Netvibes<\/a>, Protopage<\/a>, eskobo<\/a>, and several<\/a> others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Looking at another facet, 3 of those major players, and none of the others that I’m aware of, allow third-party modules<\/strong>. I haven’t looked at Microsoft’s, but I did look at Google’s last month in Why is the Google Homepage API not HTML?<\/a>. Surprise, surprise, AOL’s announcement today is that their API<\/a> is a microformat (HTML).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aside from the AJAX, does this remind anyone else of 1999? I’d accuse some of copying from others, but… well that’s life.<\/p>\n

Update January 20<\/strong>: Yahoo!’s is now all ajaxy<\/a>, although it doesn’t seem quite as well done as some of the others. No third-party modules yet, though.<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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