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Ajax homepages market review
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02/28/2006, By Richard MacManus
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Over the past year many new AJAX homepages, aka personalized start pages, have been introduced to the market. Microsoft and Google have offerings, as do a host of small startups. First I'll define what an AJAX homepage is, then I'll do a feature comparison between the leading services.
Types of AJAX Homepages
Looking at the 2006 class of portals/personalized pages, there are two distinct groups:
1) The big guns: Microsoft (live.com), Google (Google Personalized Homepage) and Yahoo (My Yahoo, which is still mostly an old-style portal).
2) The little companies: Netvibes, Protopage, PageFlakes and a host of other contenders.
I did an analysis of their traffic on my other blog Read/WriteWeb, which showed that the big guns are obviously far ahead of the little guys in terms of traffic. But what about features and functionality? Let's look at each of the main products…
Microsoft and Google will likely dominate this space, with Yahoo perhaps entering the market with its own widgets homepage in the near future. With an asset like Konfabulator on its books, it'd be strange if they don't at least re-design My Yahoo to accomodate web services and widgets. Among the smaller companies, Pageflakes seems to be the most promising with its API support. It's not too late though for Netvibes and the others to join the party and open up their platforms to developers.
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