Free Software Stuff

Personalized home pages

I’ve known for some time now that Google has extended its basic search page, and now various other elements can be added (feeds, clocks, calendars, games, sticky notes, etc…) to the personalized page for any G(whatever) user. A few days ago, I’ve also stumbled upon Netvibes, which follows basically the same principle in page design as Google. The cool thing about Netvibes is that it doesn’t require registration - I guess that the account is created for every new visitor, and returning visitors, based on their cookie, are presented with their customized pages. Today, I’ve found out about Mooglets, which is another attempt at personalized home page. While the look’n'feel is very polished (kinda reminds me of Konfabulator widgets), it uses up 100% of CPU (viewed with Firefox 1.5 under Linux). Definitely not cool.

Update: Today I’ve stumbled upon this one: Protopage. Seeing the previous three, I’m not overly impressed. But I am doumbfounded by how many of these pages exist out there.
I wonder how many people use these personalized home pages…

Btw, general announcement for English-speaking visitors: Since most of my blog entries of late have Croatian local theme, I’m considering switching over to using Croatian language exclusively. If there’s an non-Croatian-speaking soul out there who actually reads this blog, please let me know so I won’t abandon you ;-)