Yourminis - Flash based Netvibes competitor
By Vivek Puri | October 27th, 2006 at 09:39 am ET
Goowy media recently launched Yourminis, a personal Flash based home page service similar to Netvibes or Google Personalized home page. Goowy had been providing minis as desktop application , which were available since last year, and is now moving them over to a stand alone start page to attract a wider user base.
Youminis team has developed a great interface for the service having similar features as most of the competing services have. Yourminis provides the ability to add, remove content modules, modify background color of modules, and add tabs to your personal page, and resize modules. Yourminis tabs can be viewed in Quick Tabs format similar to what we have in Internet Explorer 7.
Yourminis modules library might not be as versatile as compared to Netvibes, but still does provide number of modules needed by most of the users. Users can add their del.icio.us, Gmail, Hotmail, .mac mail, Yahoo Mail, and pop3 accounts. Other available modules enable users to add RSS feeds, Yahoo Traffic, Youtube videos, AOL videos, Flickr photos, calendar, and todo list. Goowy team has also been working with Wallop’s Modder Network to provide minis, from yourminis.com, to the Wallop community.
Yourminis worked fine on Maxthon, Firefox, and Flock. However I experienced an issue with Yourminis on IE7. When switching between IE tabs or windows, Yourminis page suddenly becomes blank and you need to refresh the page to get back to your content.
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Tags: StartupSquad - Netvibes - Homepage - Pageflakes - Webwag - Web-20
on October 31st, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Thanks so much for your support - we corrected the IE problem and have a lot of other improvements coming shortly…
- alex
on November 3rd, 2006 at 1:30 am
Alex,
Thanks for the update. I will checkout your new release sometime later.
-Vivek
on November 27th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
[…] Other competing services in homepage market include Netvibes, Webwag, Pageflakes, Yourminis, Google, and Windows Live. […]
on March 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 pm
[…] It has been just over 4 months since I wrote about the launch of Yourminis widget based homepage service and it is already gaining lot of traction with users. In this short time Yourminis has registered almost 1 million users and served 13+ million widget impressions. I think all this user response is well deserved. But what does all this mean to us? More features! Come next week Yourminis will be launching important updates to the flashy platform. […]