Comments on: Netvibes.com trounces Start.com!

By: trueman

trueman — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:46:03 +0000

anyone knows the provider of the weather in netvibes.com
the name is “the Weather Channel”

but when i google there are so many with this name.
is there a way to use the wheather module from netvibes on my own website?

By: TechCrunch » Web 2.0 This Week (September 18-24)

TechCrunch » Web 2.0 This Week (September 18-24) — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:49:32 +0000

[...] People are really liking NetVibes (and so do we!) [...]

By: Braidwood

Braidwood — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:53:05 +0000

I also can’t edit Netvibes in Firefox and have to edit in IE. I hope there is a fix on the way! If there is a trick to it, please let me know.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:00:37 +0000

Is there an issue with Netvibes on Firefox? It seems I get server errors when trying to click ‘edit’ for each area (eg to add my Gmail login details).

As a result everytime I need to customise my page I have to use IE, then log back in using Firefox.

Also does anyone know how to add gmail to Start.com?

By: John Raftery

John Raftery — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:15:57 +0000

No proplem!, I hit the Submit button without checking the preview (doh!). I figured you’d sort it.

See also generic AJAX stuff at ajaxpatterns.org

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:59:49 +0000

John,

One or two of your links were broken in your comment so I edited them to fix them, I hope you don’t mind.

I posted earlier today about Ajax office applications - a word processor, an Ajax spreadsheet, etc.

Ajax is hitting the bigtime!

By: John Raftery

John Raftery — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:48:10 +0000

These Ajaxian Portals are better than a small pot ;).

I found one recently called ProtoPage which is handy for jotting down links etc., it has a nice “sticky note” feature and also it does not impose a table layout (see http://www.protopage.com).

My favourite so far is http://www.start.com and now http://www.netvibes.com (thanks) is a close second. Very disappointed with Google’s attempt :(.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:08:43 +0000

No Problem - good to see you back blogging after your summer break

Keep it up.

Tom.

By: Michael Turley

Michael Turley — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:58:08 +0000

Thanks Tom, I prefer that to google ig or start.com

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:12:56 +0000

Go run virtual PC

Um, no. I have Virtual PC on this Mac and it is a complete dog of an application - every action in it takes at least 2-3 minutes.

So, why would I want to run it to see Start.com when there are perfectly good alternatives like Netvibes.com and Google’s google.com/ig which run fine on the Mac?

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:44:00 +0000

>>I have complained, both here and on the Start.com blog, about Start.comâ€™s stubborn refusal to support the Mac platform

Yeah, kind of like how Apple really jumped immediately on iTunes and iPod support for windows user? Go run virtual PC.

By: MacManX.com

MacManX.com — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:07:05 +0000

Blogroll Dive: 9/26/05

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By: hostyle

hostyle — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:16:32 +0000

“does the weather widget in Start.com give Irish weather info?”

Yes, powered by the Weather Channel.

By: TechCrunch

TechCrunch — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:55:09 +0000

Web 2.0 This Week (September 18-24)

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By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:58:49 +0000

Lee,

excellent - thanks for all the info - btw, does the weather widget in Start.com give Irish weather info?

By: hostyle

hostyle — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:08:33 +0000

To receive a warning when closing multiple in safari: http://www.ocdev.com/

start.com has a lot more functionality (a lot of it useless eye candy) than netvibes. You can change the number of columns (handy for large resolutions), change the overall colour style (how innovative!), and the show/hide main menu is pinnable or hidable. The weather widget is AJAXified and can have more than one entry. The whole mouseover for panel options on netvibes is annoying and hard to use. start.com has constant buttons that dont disappear onmouseout.

However, you can’t give the page your own title. The drag’n'drop is a little clunky. You must use MSN search (surprise, surprise).