All Posts Tagged With: "Startcom"

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Has RSS Usage Killed Off Personal Homepages?

This time last year personal homepages were all the rage, with both big players like Google, MSN and Yahoo! and also small players like netvibes and pageflakes all frantically developing services.
However, it’s rare these days to see any interesting stories break about personal homepages. I wonder, is this because RSS readers have stolen their [...]

 3Mar2007 | Everton | 8 comments | Continued
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Personalised AJAX Homepages: Roundup and Review

Personal homepages are making a comeback after being out of vogue for the last couple of years. Several of the established portals have teams working on developing new personalised homepage offerings as well as several new entrants hoping to gatecrash the sector. This week I’ve been playing with some of the latest offerings [...]

 17Dec2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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New My Yahoo! Beta Site - First Looks

I’ve been using My Yahoo! as my homepage for about 8 years until recently. Frankly, I’d been disappointed that the service had remained unchanged for a long time and over the last couple of months I’ve been alternating between using Rojo.com and Start.com as my homepage.Well, Yahoo! today very quietly launched a new beta [...]

 24Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Microsoft’s Start.com To Launch Fully On September 15th?

It looks like Microsoft’s beta RSS reader start.com will be launching fully on 15th September. This isn’t surprising as with the addition of roaming and bookmarks in the last release, this became a fully functional homepage.It’ll be interesting to see what the commercial model for the full service will be as the beta has [...]

 19Aug2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Start.com Fix Firefox Issue Thanks To Scobie

I just had yet another example of how companies that blog allow users to have unprecendented access to developers.
After discovering that Start.com’s new login feature didn’t work with Firefox I sent an email to Scobie as I was interested in what was Microsoft’s official view on supporting Firefox.
Within hours Scobie had replied, copied one of [...]

 10Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Microsoft’s Beta RSS Reader Start.com Adds Roaming

Start.com, Microsoft’s cool beta RSS reader have just added the ability for accounts to roam using MSN Passport.
I don’t think this quite constitutes release 4 of the prototype but release 4 must be due soon given that:
start.com/1 -> released in March 05
start.com/2 -> released in April 05
start.com/3 -> released in June 05
start.com/4 -> overdue???????
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 10Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Should All Companies Blog To Improve Their Customer Service?

One pleasant thing I’ve noticed since I discovered blogging is how it allows you to affect the development and quality of various services. I’m still amazed sometimes how quickly companies have discovered my posts mentioning their companies and have replied either on my blog or via email, and it makes me feel good that [...]

 5Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Personalised Homepages - Not Cool Anymore?

After watching the channel 9 video which includes a demo of the upcoming Microsoft Start project it made me realise that portals don’t seem to be investing a lot of effort into allowing users to personalise their homepages anymore.
In the late 90s this was all the rage and offering personalisation was seen to be important [...]

 22Jul2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued