Best 15 Ajax Based Start pages
Ajax is a popular web development technique that is used for creating interactive web applications that can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display of the existing page. In other words Ajax is used to make web applications behave more like traditional desktop apps, by allowing the user to interact with the site without reloading the page. I’ve compiled a list of the best Ajax based websites starring
1. Netvibes
Netvibes is a global community of users who are taking control of their digital lives by personalizing their web experience. It’s more of a widget platform that is used by thousands of publish all around the world.
2. PageFlakes
PageFlakes offers the same service but it also allows you to easily customize the Internet and make it yours using “Flakes”. You can arrange your personal home page using movable versions of all your web favorites. Pageflakes has thousands of Flakes widgets or modules including Facebook, a universal News Search, YouTube, Twitter, message board, blog, and hundreds of RSS feeds to choose from.
3. Bloglines
Bloglines ia free online service that features searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. Its a all-in-one blog and news feed search and it’s available in 10 languages.
Key feautres include
- All-in-one Blog and news feed search, online subscriptions, news reader, blog publishing and social sharing tools
- Available in 10 languages
- Mobile version optimized for hand held computers and cell phones
- Email subscriptions help manage your e-newsletter traffic
- Package Tracking (UPS, USPS & FedEx)
- Custom weather forecasts
- Quick Pick Subscriptions get new users started quickly and easily
- Personalized recommendations to find new subscriptions
- Bookmarklet for single-click subscriptions to any source
- Notifiers for all browser types to remind you when new articles have arrived
- Bloglines Saved Searches deliver future articles matching your key words and phrases
- Most Popular lists show the days hot topics and which blogs are getting the most noticed
- Handy add-on tools for bloggers such as automated blogrolls, subscription buttons
4. iGoogle
One of my personal favorite is iGoogle. It allows you to start your search right away by selecting some of the most popular content.
5. Favoor
Favoor is your personalized new start page that allows you to collect your favorite internet addresses. Add notes. Simply and elegantly, access your data wherever you are online.
6. Linedfeed
Linkedfeed is an automated and customizable information social network.The more you use it, the most accurate news it brings to you and people sharing your interests. It gives you control over everything displayed on the site, and pushes content to you and your friends depending on your preferences.
MyYahoo is one of the most favorite start pages. It allows you to view your favorite web content the way you want it. You can always personalize your page, move things around or view information on one page.
8. Popurls
Popurls is really special for those who are in to Social media websites. You can see all the latest and famous stories around from Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Youtube, Delicious and a lot more on one page.
9. ProtoPage
Just like Popurl, Protopage also offers to view the best stories from some of the most popular websites like Cnet, Gizmodo, Yahoo new and of course social media networks like Digg, Reddit, Delicous and more.
10. SuprGlu
If you use Social media networks like Del.icio.us, Flickr, Blogger, Typepad, etc? SuprGlu is a new way to gather all your content from those sites. It features
- Gathers your content from popular webservices and publishes them in one convenient place.
- Presents your content with simple, great looking templates which you can customize.
- FREE to use!
11. 24 Eyes
24 Eyes is the personal premum RSS dashboard on the internet that requies no registration or fee. YOu can start using their services right away. With 24 eyes you can publish your own RSS dashboad section on the internet and even invites your friends to use your personal dashboard. You can also find interesting news by searching and browsing related tags
12. Eskobo
Eskobo is another Ajax Based Start page that brings the best of Yahoo news, Boing Boing, Bcc, NYT, Engadget and more.
13. WetPaint
WetPaint allows you to create websites that mix all the best features of wikies, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user generated community based around the whatever it is that rocks your socks. It’s really easy to use and anyone can participate.
14. MyLive
A great way to personalize your web is by using Windows Live my.live.com. It brings your online world together in one place, from news to photos to mail. To get started all you have to do is select that pages you want to add, you can add additional content or change the layout of the whole page.
15. Inbox
Inbox is a portal with an AJAX start page wrapper just like Yahoo, it offers most likely appeal to regular audience. Advanced users may skip over it since it lacks in the functionality department.
There are hundreds of more AJAX based websites out there. Please feel free to add your favorite in the comment section below.
Comments
I like AJAX but it’s ficken slow, in fact the internet is slow. What ever happen to instantly having something happen when you click no matter many times. I miss dos
I am shocked that http://www.BBC.com was not on this list. BBC has one of the best looking sites I have ever seen in this category.
AJAX is not slow… IE is painfully slow with AJAX. Use Firefox (or Safari, even faster), and the problem is fixed. Honestly, check the benchmarks — IE is so painfully slow with javascript (the heart of AJAX) compared to the others that it’s just not a fair fight.
Great article! AJAX is indeed an extremely powerful tool to utilize these days. Unfortunately we are still in an era where end-users still disable JavaScript, rendering AJAX useless. So if you are sure your website will not be impacted by the use of AJAX then by all means, let er’ rip! :D
I guess the perfect world would consist of safe code and the satisfaction knowing we can use AJAX with no negative effects. Man… :(
@MyWorld – The internet is not slow, it may be your connection and/or computer. AJAX requires decent client-side hardware to efficiently execute. Thus poor hardware will result is poor application performance, oh and what is that? Sounds like a web application is acting like a desktop application.
Can I recommend http://www.myworldtoday.co.cc as your startpage.
It’s a clean ajaxed news startup page showing you bare trimmings of World News from multiple news sites, that gives you the headlines as you request it. You can have as much info or as little as you want. It’s meant to be a stripped down – bare version so that it loads up as quick as possible.
he said dos.. hahah maybe you and dos should go share a dialup connection somewhere and cuddle :) no 56k though, 14.4 is all im allowing you to have.
Those are really cool! I like Ajax-based websites. However, the only drawback is that it is quite bandwidth-hungry. So, ensure you have the bandwidth to support; otherwise it can easily bring down the site.
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Those are really cool! I like Ajax-based websites. However, the only drawback is that it is quite bandwidth-hungry. So, ensure you have the bandwidth to support; otherwise it can easily bring down the site…
I’ll throw Newspyle (http://newspyle.com) in the hat. It features three panes – Digg, Reddit, and Delicious. It is also mobile friendly :-).
I personally like http://www.infonary.com. They have a good interface and apt information. You can browse through topics like business, religion etc. This site also provides a search functionality :-)
as I website owner I think the content material here is really wonderful, appreciate it for your efforts.
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Wow, I had no idea you could do so many things with Ajax.
Jess