{"id":49,"date":"2007-07-19T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-07-19T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T07:39:00","slug":"protopage-and-pageflakes-and-netvibes-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/protopage-and-pageflakes-and-netvibes-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Protopage and Pageflakes and Netvibes, Oh My"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And hey, I now know that&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/snowclones.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">snowclone<\/a>. Good thing all this web education isn&#8217;t going to waste!<\/p>\n<p>I am currently comparing Personal Start Pages, but for communicating with others, not just setting up my personal learning environment (though later I&#8217;ll do that too, I&#8217;m sure). As I play, I have compared these three products. What I want is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the option to make the page public\n<li>a block where I can post one or several specific videos\n<li>a block that shows comments and discussion, preferrably right there though it&#8217;s OK if it links out to another board\n<li>a block where I can put in whatever HTML I want\n<li>no ads\n<li>customized layout\n<li>boxes showing RSS feeds and lots of &#8217;em\n<li>a way to show a web page, like the Program for Online Teaching page\n<li>and how &#8217;bout my del.icio.us tag cloud?<\/ul>\n<p>Turns out all three had no ads, and a way to show a web page. Then they started to differ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/protopage.com\" target=\"_blank\">Protopage<\/a> gave me my own URL for <a href=\"http:\/\/protopage.com\/onlineteaching\/\" target=\"_blank\">my page<\/a>, which got me wanting that too! <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.protopage.com\/web\/help\/images\/add-widget-button.png?w=648\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I could share any page using the tabs\n<li>no YouTube video block specifically, but it let me embed a video with height and width in an HTML block\n<li>has a comment box right there, but it&#8217;s announcing, not interactive\n<li>I can display and combine feeds with no limit\n<li>widget resizing and arrangements not problem\n<li><b>challenge<\/b>: the scroll bars get tangled in Firefox on the Mac\n<li><b>cool things<\/b>: it doesn&#8217;t make you use the username to log in, just the password (I can never remember my damn usernames), and any user can adjust widget boxes<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pageflakes.com\/App_Themes\/Green_Unified\/pageflakes.gif?w=648\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"12\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pageflakes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pageflakes<\/a><br \/>\ncan do public, private or group pages and allows invited people to edit. It also gave me my own URL for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pageflakes.com\/lisa5\" target=\"_blank\">my page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I couldn&#8217;t figure out a way to post just one video, and\n<li>I could find no open HTML &#8220;flake&#8221; to put code in\n<li>Message Board right there (in which I got a comment immediately)\n<li>RSS feeds limited to 25\n<li><b>cool things<\/b>: web page flake can display any web page, and can have flake showing del.icio.us tag cloud<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eco.netvibes.com\/img\/add2netvibes.png?w=648\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"2\" hspace=\"12\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netvibes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Netvibes<\/a> was the one I struggled with the most, though I was able to do a lot. No URL, and I can&#8217;t show you my page because I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to do it. I had to sign in to do anything at all. This one made me feel stupid.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No YouTube widget but can use HTML External Widget for videos or HTML\n<li>can do an HTML note\n<li>no built in message board, but has phpBB discussion forum monitor, so I could see an external discussion if it were in phpBB\n<li>it can show the first line of feeds, but has 10 maximum\n<li>can display any web page<\/ul>\n<p>So&#8230;.I&#8217;m still thinking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And hey, I now know that&#8217;s a snowclone. Good thing all this web education isn&#8217;t going to waste! I am currently comparing Personal Start Pages, but for communicating with others, not just setting up my personal learning environment (though later I&#8217;ll do that too, I&#8217;m sure). As I play, I have compared these three products. 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