November 30, 2007
Posted by Ryan Graves
Symbaloo – customizable homepage
Symbaloo is taking on the bold challenge of entering the customized start page arena. With giants like iGoogle and NetVibes dominating, it is a very competitive market to attack but Symbaloo has a very clean design that just may catch on. Using the default size of 10×6 a user has 52 blocks to customize with links and drop-downs. You can add any of your own blocks or choose from Symbaloo’s list of the most popular web 2.0 sites (blogs, search engines, wikis, etc.). Symbaloo also offers a tour video that explains the whats and whys.
Although I like the design that Symbaloo offers I still like everything viewable without any clicks. The simplicity that Symbaloo offers is its strongest asset and the users they get will be drawn to it because of the simplistic design. However, I’ll probably stay with iGoogle for now.
What customizable homepage are you using?
I find Netvibes very slow to load. iGoogle is clean and the only widget I've not found is one for Facebook. I'll sacrifice Facebook's widget for a faster load time. You?
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