Protopage Launched v2.0

Yesterday Protopage launched v2.0. They added some cool new features to v2.0 including a full screen mode and a feed directory. You can see a full list of the new features at their blog.
However, as Michael Arrington at Techcrunch pointed out:

“Protopage was an earlyish entrant into the Ajax desktop market, which is now crowded with products like Netvibes, Google, Microsoft Live and Zoozio. Goowy is also a choice, of course, although they have chosen Flash over Ajax for their platform. Microsoft Live is the only extensible product, with a growing number of third party widgets available for use.”

I did a profile on Protopage back in September and actually tried to use it for a while. It just didn’t work for me. I ended up using Netvibes instead (I profiled Netvibes in September also). After a while though, I found myself moving away from Netvibes as well. I have to admit I like the concept of a Desktop page but after I started adding more and more feeds to it, it just didn’t make since anymore. It would be nice if someone could come-up with one useful product that would incorporate everything I use on daily basis. Maybe we’ll see something new in the future that will allow me to only use one web application instead of the 5-6 different ones I use now.

Click Here to check out Protopage v2.0

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