yourminis.com

21Apr07

Create your own personalised widget space on yourminis.com.

YourMinis lets you create a personal pages much like those from NetVibes, PageFlakes, WebWag, Google, Microsoft Live, or My Yahoo, which raises the question: Why? The Flash “minis” are attractive, but the eye candy on the YourMinis page does slow things down a bit, and other start pages (such as NetVibes) offer more modules.

- Beautiful little widgets locked in Flash, Webware

There were some “brave” attempts to do personalised web spaces in web 1.0. We didn’t have AJAX then and Flash wasn’t as prevalent as it is now. But that didn’t stop us from trying.

Yahoo! led the pack with My Yahoo!. The focus was more on personalising content to help users keep up with the burgeoning web content. However, My Yahoo! never really took off because most users (like me) were pretty lazy. But what was apparent, even then, was that we needed a much more modular approach to personalisation.

Not long after, we started seeing content management systems roll out “portlets” which end-users could personalise. It was hot with corporate intranets but less so with public-facing websites. They weren’t fun to customise, but you basically had to do it at work so you could be more efficient.

What’s really neat about yourminis.com is that it’s fun to use. It’s one of those things on the web that you definitely don’t need. By making it fun to use, yourminis converts people like me, who don’t need it, into users because it’s just fun to use.

Neat stuff

  • Everything is graphical
  • Drag and drop
  • Tabs to separate work, fun, reading, whatever stuff
  • Ready-made widgets (but not enough) from BBC, Veoh, etc.
  • Productivity widgets like to do lists

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  1. 1 alex bard on April 24, 2007 said:

    thanks for your support! We are launching a bunch of new widgets you will be able to use as well as the ability for users to remix widgets and publish them back into the community…that should increase the amount of useful widgets significantly…thanks again!

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  2. 2 webified on April 24, 2007 said:

    Hi Alex, thanks for dropping by. The interface is really intuitive. I am sitting here now with the former deputy editor of the Business Times and giving her a twirl of yourminis.com. Look forward to “remix”.

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  3. 3 webified on April 25, 2007 said:

    Hi Alex, by the way, we noticed a typo in your welcome message to new members of yourminis.com. Currently, it says “A team of 33 highly resepected individuals…”, there is an extra “e” in the word “respected”. We love the welcome message by the way. Very clever.

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