Nice to first look in personal
start page of Backstit.ch which launched today as a public beta. It looks
basically aims to fill the gap in iGoogle which will be leaving once Google
retires the service on November 1, 2013. It will compete with established
services such as Netvibes or My Yahoo, so let’s see what it has to offer right
now.
There are various version concentrates on related to social networking, photos, news and shopping related service modules that we can add to use on start page.
Today when I used to enter
signed up to get started creating your own personal start page on the Internet,
or skip that and used all of the features the service is currently making
available. A click on catalog on the left displays the various modules that the
service is making available.
There are various version concentrates on related to social networking, photos, news and shopping related service modules that we can add to use on start page.
• News: A collection of popular news
sites, including New York Times, Yahoo! News or NBC News, as well as tech blogs
such as Mashable, TechCrunch or Engadget.
• Social: concentrates on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, with options to see updates, posts and various other
account related or public information posted on those sites.
• Shopping: Groupon, Woot and a handful
of other deals related sites are available with lot of options.
Each module that you add to the
start page comes with configuration options. News for instance can be filtered
with use of lot of categories according to interest wise in and words that the
news need to contain.
Backstit.ch is currently a beta
product and as such likely not feature complete. It is currently missing
features that I’d expect a start page service to offer, including:
• Import of opml files
• Sharing options
• Custom tabs
• Widgets or gadgets like weather
reports, calculator, currency converter
• Internet search
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