e-consultancy.com — Dozens of personalised homepages have emerged over the past 18 months as developers started to programme lovely drag and drop interfaces, allowing users to customise the layout of their personal homepage. Cool technology, great use of AJAX, but is there trouble ahead?
Jun 15, 2006 View in Crawl 4
drakethegreatJun 16, 2006
People on digg have no sense of humor. How can you mod down MatthewK unless you take life way too seriously.
whisperedlieJun 16, 2006
If digg.com were the place to find articles for aging-hipster-born-again-tech-enthusiast entrepreneurialists on how to make a quick dirty dollar stealing someone else's "business model" (one which is dead-ended anyways) by creating s**tty Web 2.0 homepage portals, then this article might be somewhat interesting.
Closed AccountJun 16, 2006
"I am digging for the fact that it linked me to something i never knew about, <a class="user" href="http://www.netvibes.com,">http://www.netvibes.com,</a> OMG where the f**k have i been???"Not wanting to be cynical, but I think thats the purpose of this article. It smells of paid-for news release.So does the "Google Likely To Buy Another Online Office App" article from a few minutes ago. Its pretty obvious that Thumbstacks paid for that one.
Closed AccountJun 16, 2006
Since it's "the lack of any noticeable business model." that is the problem of "AJAX Homepages" , I guess that will be YouTube's downfall as well.
deepsubJun 16, 2006
The Ajax are a soccer team from Amsterdam.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_Ajax_Amsterdam">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFC_Ajax_Amsterdam</a>oh wait... wrong Ajax....
spect3rJun 16, 2006
Ajax has a time and a place. Much like flash, java, and any other programming language out there.As long as your site is:- Navigational and/or efficient- Clean- Easy to read- Has a clear & consise objective. You should be ok, despite the effects, engines and features.
szembekJun 16, 2006
No.
martinusJun 27, 2006
AJAX is a very nice, shiny new hammer. It is such a nice hammer that all problems suddenly look like nails.