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Yourminis adds some Flash to your start page

The AJAX start page is old news….pageflakes, netvibes, Google IG, live.com….it’s been done. Yourminis.com is the first Flash startpage I’ve run across and it’s really cool…but I’ll never use it (edit: In the current form).

Yourminis.com (from the Goowy.com team) takes fractionally longer to load in my completely nonscientific method of looking at the counter in Winamp. Once loaded the first thing I noticed was the color and the motion. I feel like I stumped into the state fair after a few drinks. There is a lot going on the here. Just like any startpage, you can add tabs across the top to sort your “minis” which can be picked from the left column.

There are plenty of video minis to feed you the latest from youtube and the likes, as well as rss, webmail, flickr, podcasts and etc. The whole things comes together very well and allows you to view some external content inside the Yourminis site, which isn’t an entirely new thing but a nice implementation regardless.

Overall the whole interface is very fluid, but I just don’t feel “hooked”. Maybe flash is overkill for a startpage or just that I don’t see anything “new” here to take me away from my trusty old AJAX startpage. Call me old fashion, but I need a little foreplay before getting into all the crazy web 2.0 action.

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