Web2.0 Ajax-based desktop-like personal pages has become more and more crowded these days. With the web services such as: YouOS, DesktopTwo, and eyeOS, users are being faced with difficult choices between the them. And now, Protopage has updated their web service.
In November 25, 2006, Protopage has relaunched with its newest version, V3 (or version 3). With this version, Protopage has several major new updates from their previous one. The updates are:
- An Internal News Feed Reader (with keyboard shortcuts and multi-feed display): The new feed reader auto-detects feeds which only provide headlines and summaries, and displays them in an “article summaries†mode (try it for a feed such as worldtechlogic.com). It also uniquely remembers and orders your news feeds depending on how often you read them
- Cartoon Mode: see the largest image from any particular feed as a single image, which is perfect for cartoon news feeds
- Thumbnail Mode: see thumbnail grids of not only Flickr/photo feeds, but of any news feed
- Video and Audio Podcast Support, with integrated podcast player
- New Settings: Brand new color theme engine, with free choice of color combinations, wallpapers and background patterns
- Multi-Category Color Coded Tabs (with instant page sharing): You can now organize your page by creating tabs and categories. If you want to use Protopage as a quick and easy web page publishing tool, you can make your tabs public so that the whole world can see them. You can also assign passwords to groups of tabs so that only certain people will be able to view or edit them.
- Drag and Drop Multi-Level To-Do Lists: A hierarchical to-do list, with edit-in-place and drag-and-drop – not only within lists but between different to-do list widgets
- Widget Showcase and Developer API: Protopage launches with 270 preloaded widgets, including 96 games, 71 finance widgets and 26 sports score widgets
- Widget Browser (with previews and new calendar, clock, comment box and
ProtoPuppy widgets): It’s now easier than ever before to add new content and widgets to your Protopage. There are wizards for adding news feeds, podcasts, video podcasts, cartoon feeds and photo thumbnail feeds, as well as a directory of hundreds of news publications and blogs to choose from - Edit-in-Place Sticky Notes: No more clicking the ‘edit’ button to change a sticky note! You can now simply click to edit the text directly inside the widget. (Note: This only works for our new plain-text sticky notes. If you use a Rich Text / HTML sticky note, you still need to use the ‘edit’ button so that you can use all of the Rich Text formatting control buttons and options)
- Integrated Search Box (with 750 preloaded search engines): For quick access to your favorite search engines, such as Wikipedia, you can use the new search box in the top right corner of your Protopage You can choose from our directory of built in search engines, or add your own
- Major Browser Support: Internet Explorer 6, 7, Firefox 1, 2, Opera 9 and Safari 2
Overall, Protopage V3 allows you to have your own personal page on the web. With lots of new features in its end (described above), Protopage v3 can be a formidable foe in the industry. Be sure to check out Protopage V3 by directly going to their website.
