2. Ajax-based startpage Web top Personal web portal Page aggregator –Netvibes, My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Page Flakes, Wakooz, and Microsoft Live. –Personalize site with feeders of sites of interest.

3. Rich internet application Runs in a web browser Integrates various web-based applications (Widgets) Information feeds Virtual office applications Social software Small scale Personal Learning Environment

4. RSS/Atom feeds Calendar Notes Web search Weather forecast del.icio.us bookmarks Flickr photos Social networking tools Facebook YouTube Twitter Email User-created modules

5. ASP.NET 2.0 –ASP.NET AJAX components –JavaScript –XML/VBScript source code Widget Engine

6. Software service available to users for running and displaying applets on a graphical user interface. Attractive because of ease of development Created with a few images and about 10 to several hundred lines of code. A single host software system, such as a web browser, runs all the loaded widgets.

7. Free web service –brings together your favorite media sources and online services Everything that matters to you –blogs, news, weather, videos, photos, social networks, email and much more –is automatically updated every time you visit your page.

9. Participate in the Pageflakes community Pageflakes –sharing your page as a “Pagecast” with a private group or with the world, and connecting with other users across the globe. –Over 235,000 Flakes and 140,000 Pagecasts are available

10. Works with Netvibes Complete Feeder site Works like any other personalized page.

11. More Detailed May be for the business person

12. Individual pages Group page “add stuff” option

13. Protopage Homepage Pageflakes Webwag Homepage Deskie Homepage AJAX Desktop StartPage

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