May
02
Fold: A Handy new “Desktop in a Browser”
Posted under Productivity
Fold is a great new idea where you can load up a an Internet "workspace" with your most used Ajax/Web applications and then access them anywhere in the world via the Internet. I see a lot of potential for some good home away from home productivity as they develop it further.
Embedding a search box
Embedding a fully featured word processsor
Embedding a drawing application
Embedding a scrolling news ticker
Embedding Pandora music suggestions
Embedding Google Maps
Embedding the Flickr Organizr
Embedding the AjaxTunes MP3 player
"What is Fold? Fold is a portal or start page. The aim of Fold is to consolidate most of the tools and information you need every day into a single web page. No matter where you are in the world, each time you log in you’ll feel right at home.
… Using the latest in web technology, Fold makes intensive use of AJAX for a lag-free, responsive, and virtually desktop-like environment.
Fold is completely free; it won’t cost you anything to use it."
Link: Fold - Your Start Page - Now in Public Beta
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Fold personalized start page
Just-launched start page Fold is out to be your web-based desktop. Embed, drag and drop Fold “desktop” modules like an Ajax word processor, weather, MP3 player, Flickr photos, feeds and sticky notes. With Fold you can assign a desktop background,…
Not bad at all, but I preffer http://www.netvibes.com/ . It feels way more mature, light-weight, and has many features I miss in Fold (ie. tabs, unread feeds counters - both on tabs and in windows name). But competition is always good for users :)
Fold is much more useful than Netvibes, the HTML containers allow for a mashup of literally any web content in one single page, afaik no other start page has this. Also the fixed 3 column layout of netvibes (and all similar offerings) is a fantastic waste of screen space - on a large monitor you end up with 600 pixel wide columns that hold 40 characters of text or three Flickr thumbs - no wonder they need tabs ;-)