Version 3 currently in development
We’re currently working on an array of new features and improvements for version 3 of Protopage - including an update of the look and feel. Thank you all for the marvellous suggestions sent in so far - Protopage will continue to evolve until we’ve implemented every one of them!
April 9th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Looking forward to it. Version 2 is great so I can’t wait for Version 3.
April 10th, 2006 at 12:17 am
Any hint as to what features will be included?
April 10th, 2006 at 12:56 am
OKAY!!! With your track record, this is going to be huge! Can hardly wait.
April 10th, 2006 at 3:27 am
great job. enjoy it!!!!
April 10th, 2006 at 8:44 am
Can’t Wait, I Love Protopage!! :)
April 10th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
protopage kicks ass. animal rights activists take note.
April 10th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Great, I’m anxious to see what features you’re choosing to add among the myriad of suggestions you must get.
April 10th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
It’s rockin’
April 10th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
I agree, Protopage v2 is awesome, and I look forward to the new version 3. Keep up the great work. Your implimentation of AJAX makes developing a place to organize and share a breeze.
April 10th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
I’m really looking forward to a new version. So far, I’ve had a great experience with protopage.
April 11th, 2006 at 12:44 am
cool!
:-)
April 11th, 2006 at 7:55 am
protopage is one of the two AJAX site i like(other is Gmail). Keep up the bloody good work.
April 11th, 2006 at 8:49 am
Great news!
April 11th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
When will we see it? I feel like a kid anticipating Christmas
April 11th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
We may leak some details of the new feature set as development progresses - we certainly intend to launch v3 within this quarter…
April 12th, 2006 at 9:22 am
We are having some fun at work and your technology beats the pants off the com. and colab. apps at work.
I work in finance for a Fortune 500 Company with 38 million customers.
Besides the numbers I am very good at writting proposals taking in mind the end user and the utility a service, product, or financing will have.
I would love to contribute my writing skills and assist in this venture.
Wm. Derek Somer
Kelowna, B.C.
Canada
April 12th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Can’t wait for the new features - I never thought I’d need an “internet desktop” but PP is so slick, functional and fast that it’s occupied a note-taking niche in my life that I never knew I had!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
I can’t wait to put my hands on V.3!! Protopage is fantastic. If you’re gonna put publicity, please do only on the upper side of the page (between the name of the page and the place where you dock the panels)!!
Thank you!!
April 12th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
As the Team said here, they have business models, most of which don’t need advertising… So, I’m not worried :)
I’ve seen quite a few sites that offer so-called similar services, and when I ran into Protopage, my first thought was: “the same as always; a lot of noise, and no music”. But over time, I’ve changed my mind. Protopage is the only online service next to Google that I will continue to use. It’s GREAT!
April 12th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Hey, can’t wait …
BTW - do you intend to fully import our settings across during the changeover? I use protopage as my primary RSS reader, and I’ve spent quite a while organising all my feeds … hope to not have to do it all again :)
April 13th, 2006 at 12:34 am
Of course! There is no way we’d ask you to start over!
April 17th, 2006 at 4:38 am
Wow, I’ve been having so much fun with the site! I recommended it immediately to another person who is using it to help plan for an event.
A cool feature that I think would be helpful for when more than one person is working on the page at the same time is if the page could automatically refresh with the changes another person makes. I don’t know if it would be possible or not, but I thought I would give the suggestion anyways.
Thanks again!
April 17th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Hej,
any chance of including preview of email there.(maybe even reply?)
April 18th, 2006 at 3:46 am
Lovin’ it guys, keep up the good work! I can’t wait to see what’s coming :-)
April 18th, 2006 at 10:20 am
@ patje: we already HAVE an email inbox widget, which - should I say it?- gives you a preview of your email. Don’t wait for the reply function, though… that’s a little much to ask Maybe some day…
April 18th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Hey Team!!!
And all-of-a-sudden, I have another idea for something that might be cool…
A MENU widget! The user can supply the names of the widgets they want to be part of the menu. These named widgets disappear from the page, but show up in the menu… If one selects the widget from the menu, it opens.
A submenu would easily be created by just putting a menu widget into the menu :)
Not sure if anyone can use it, and not sure if it’s worth anybody’s time to try and make this gadget… Just think it over!
April 18th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
FreeBee, a ? for ya. Are you describing what is currently the dock? Or am I misunderstanding (which is quite possible). I know the dock can’t do submenus, but it can be color-coded.
I use my dock for a yubnub page that I just load on whichever page I need to do a search at the moment. Beats having it up when I don’t need it and keeps me from having to put one on each page.
Again, I could be mistaken in what you’re describing. Just curious.
April 18th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
No, Jesse, I’m not referring to the dock. That’s a bit like a menu, but it has a different purpose… The trick you’re discribing with yubnub, is exactly what the dock is good for…
The menu, however, would just be a widget! It would be on one page, and the items in that menu would also open on that same page! They would not show on other pages, unless you copied the menu widget there as well.
UNLESS, ofcourse, you’d put the menu widget in the dock :) :) :)
Another thing is; under each login (each user) there’s only ONE dock that is available from all subpages, but one could have as many dedicated menus per page as one wished.
See the difference now?
April 18th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Look at it like this: my menu would be a great way to order a large number of widgets in ONE widget, in stead of minimizing them all, and having to manually order them on the page. And if the menu widget isn’t minimized, there’s another advantage: unlike with the dock, you can always immediately see which items are available from the menu…
I hope this all helps you, Jesse. It was a good ? you put out there! :)
April 18th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Ah, sorry guys, for the triple post here… there’s another difference… The dock is only available to the ‘owner’ of a certain page (or at least someone who logged in to that page). My menu would be available to visitors as well, unless it was on a locked page!
April 18th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Keep up the good work.
I don’t think it’s possible now, but will we ever get the facility of adding a visitor counter to the page?
I would find that very useful.
April 19th, 2006 at 12:09 am
@ken: Yea., we can get visitor counters.
go to www.protopage.com/gnimmo2 to see mine (and hopefully boost it a little ;)) I also have a guest book thing there and a thing showing your IP
Basicly, these 3 things are all wee HTML things, so I created a sticky note and pasted the html code in and viola, you have fanciness.
April 19th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
I understand the menu concept now, FreeBee. Interesting idea. Guess we’ll have to wait until the V3 birthday.
April 19th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
All I can say is Yay!
April 19th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Help
I have just started using Opera browser and Protopage doesn’t display properly
April 19th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
@Team: Thanks for adding the anti-bot code, guys! This will certainly stop the spam. YAY for the Protopage Team!
@Jesse: I’m glad I could help you understand, Jesse. And I’m glad that at least one person likes it so far :)
@all:
I’ve been thinking it over a bit more, and maybe, in stead of typing the name of a widget into the menu, it would be smarter to have an option in each widget’s menu that allows you to “add this widget to a menu”. If the user selects this option, the system would open a list of available menu-widgets on that page to choose from :)
Also, the “edit” option in the menu widget would allow you to re-order the entries like in the links widget.
Anyone more ideas on making this a useful idea?
Please let us know!
April 22nd, 2006 at 5:04 pm
@Graeme - thanks for that info, I’ve put a counter on my page http://www.protopage.com/avfcfansforum
May 1st, 2006 at 5:50 am
I would like to see the floating log in go away. A small log in link up by the clock would work great. Also don’t know if it can be done, but it would be great if I could hide the widgets and only show the content of the widget on the page. Just a thought… I love protopage!
May 9th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Can’t wait for the next version. Any chance to incorporate a chat portal?
May 10th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
A thought:
I keep my weather widgets minimized, but would LOVE the ability to see at least the current temperature & conditions (cloudy, sunny, etc) in the title bar. Think this would be possible?
May 11th, 2006 at 8:21 am
waiting for v 3 , v2 is also great
May 12th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
I’m also looking forward to hearing an update of how it’s going with v.3. Any news to give us yet? How far off are we?
Another idea about the weather widget (which is great, by the way!): I’d like to see sunrise/sunset times too. Hope someday we can get that.
Thanks for a great tool! My protopage is my homepage now and I love it.
May 13th, 2006 at 3:07 am
I feel that you should add a feature , to where you can add sound and music to the page to make it more interesting!
May 13th, 2006 at 3:08 am
visit my page at www.protopage.com/lemur11
May 13th, 2006 at 3:09 am
visit my friends page at www.protopage.com/summerguy7
May 16th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Ok, so you know and I know - and probably by now everyone using Protopage also knows - that Google are going to try and buy you out pretty soon after they find you exist. They are doing it with other AJAX / Web 2.0 pages after all and yours is as good or better than the ones they have already gone after.
So where is the problem? One thing, so far - linking to other webpages! Not your average, ordinary page like my own (page 3 of the Protopage) or my blog - which at the moment I have only via my own page just mentioed - but the really good, really competitive pages that will make your system not just a desktop, but a Web-Operating System.
Sure, the pages I mean tend to be other AJAX pages, or even more interactive and I do know about the problems with cross-domain scripting (how HAVE you got around that?). I’m talking, of course about pages like BackPackIt, KiKo, Flickr, Box.net, AjaxWrite and Writely (which Google just bought) - which for those who don’t know covers storage, calendaring, digital images, difital backup, and two word processors (one quick, one Word-compatible). Basically, an office desktop on the web.
Its not that they DON’T work, its that they don’t work WELL as yet. They are hard to resize, open new browser windows rather than tabs and, to be honest, have a few glitches when you try to use them from Protopage - but if you can get them right, then you have a goldmine on your hands and Google will pay MILLIONS to buy you out… for obvious reasons.
Can you say “bankrupt”, Mr. Gates?
May 16th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
I hope protopage stays off Internet giants.
Besides Google has already it’s own version
of a personalized home/start page.
http://www.google.ca/ig
May 18th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I’m new to this page and I’m having fun. I do have a ? or maybe a suggestion:
For the sticky notes, could there be an option to be able to write directly into the stick note without having to bring the formatting window?
I’ve gone to some of other user’s pages and I’ve seen some really cool widgets. Is there a way to be able to copy these into my page (with author’s permission of course), or is there a place to get these? For example: A clock, one that shows my IP address, etc.
Thanks for such great webpage. Now, this is true interactive webpage!
May 23rd, 2006 at 6:50 pm
Can you say “bankrupt”, Mr. Gates?
..lol, right.
I’m still waiting for a [Show/Hide HUD] link under the page title in the title box. Sometimes the page switchers, clock, etc. get in the way.. it’d be awesome to be able to hide them.
May 24th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
i’m using this in education for collaborative projects with students. It is fantastic and they love it
nice one
May 26th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
I have a sticky note which carries all my contact addresses and telephone numbers. It is a bit of a pain to edit. A widget designed with columns for this purpose would be brilliant.
May 27th, 2006 at 3:05 am
Love the site! someone asked about a chat widget/gadget? There is a gabbly chat widget for protopage on http://gabblywidgets.com/widgets/
Thumbs up for the html editing in the stickies, means I can write in Hebrew and have no problems with the right to left alignment.
Wanted to suggest adding page title popup for page numbers. So that when I mouse over the page number I can see the page title. I have 12 pages and have to click through them in order to find what i’m looking for.
Thanks
May 28th, 2006 at 4:42 am
Can there be an edit mode? Like you go into edit mode and can drag links from one widget to another?
May 30th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Wow, this was a great discovery! Already using it for Google Calendar, GMail and todo lists. Amazing way for a personal start page.
A question and a couple of feature requests (maybe they’re in for v. 3?):
1) Is there an easy way to have shared todo lists? By that I mean lists that invited people have access to, either to just view or to edit. I suppose this feature isn’t in Prototype itself, but can it be accomplished any other way?
Well, sharing the same Prototype page I guess is one way, but can users on different computers be logged in at the same time? And if they can, can they be logged in to different Google Calendar accounts, while logged in with the same Prototype account?
If this ain’t possible, that could perhaps be turned into a feature request… :)
2) It would be great with full-size mode for embedded web pages. Like I have my Google Calendar embedded, but sometimes I’d like to view it full screen.
3) Related to #3, it would be great if web site widgets could be resized when the browser window is resized. That is, if I resize the browser window I’d like the web site widgets to resize too so that I don’t have to scroll. Also, if I view the page on different computers they have different screen sizes and then I have to edit the widget size all the time.
But for sure a wonderful product! :D
May 31st, 2006 at 7:02 pm
Daniel,
planzo calendar allows sharing of the calendar, to do lists and notice board. It can be added in the web page widget.
http://www.planzo.com
June 6th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
I’ve been a protopage user for quite some time and I love it… but I’m starting to get worried. I haven’t seen an update to the blog in a while. You guys haven’t gone away, have you? I guess news of the demise of “Fold” has me a little worried. I sure hope not.
June 7th, 2006 at 2:43 am
Don’t worry - we’re just busy working on version 3!
June 8th, 2006 at 5:00 am
I was logged onto my page & my mom @ work could edit my pages ! So now when I log in I have to lock all 7 of my pages! ( very aggrivating ) please add a lock & an unlock all pages button to version 3 of protopage! Thx!
www.protopage.com/summerguy7
June 8th, 2006 at 5:19 am
you should make a phone book widget for companies with protopage sites
June 10th, 2006 at 7:36 am
how about adding a bitty browser widget?would be a great way to browse the web while remaining inside my protopage
June 11th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
Please give Opera 9 support. It suports the DOM 2 Style module.
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/291397
June 16th, 2006 at 8:56 am
Feature requests:
1) It would be great if we could name/rename our subpages independently (Susan)
2) It would be also great if we could rearrange the order of the subpages
3) a directory with user pages sorted by names or categories (tags) it would be very NICE
4) I think Menu Widget (FreeBee) and Saving other user widgets (Alex Rodriguez) are great ideas
5) an invite/ sharing widget it would be nice too
Thanks for your great work.
June 19th, 2006 at 9:01 am
More feature requests:
6) it would be nice if we could share our pages (publish is for everyone, share is for who we want to)
7) it would be also great if we could delete our subpages
Thanks
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:09 am
Ease of use.
I use protopage with firefox, and often have many tabs open. I use the mouse to switch tabs, but sometimes when I switch to the protopage tab I find I’m on the wrong page. I then have to mouse down to the lower right corner, change page, copy the sticky info I want, then mouse back up to the tab bar to change back to where I was before.
So it would help me if the pager was at the top of the page, not the bottom.
I suppose I could change firefox to have the tabs at the bottom of the window, but that’s just plain wrong! :)
Thanks
David
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:37 pm
I would like to see a change of “mark as read” feature. It is natually to move this feature AFTER the news feed.
I don’t want to scroll all the way up to mark the news feed I just read.
Thanks
July 2nd, 2006 at 3:16 pm
It would be great if you can send duplicates of your panels to other users.
July 7th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
folks, email me with the link to your protopage. I’m going to start a page with everyone’s link so that we have a protopage community.
Or is anyone doing this already?
Robin
ourfaithworx@gmail.com
July 24th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
why won’t protopage answer me “I was logged onto my page & my mom @ work could edit my pages ! So now when I log in I have to lock all 7 of my pages! ( very aggrivating ) please add a lock & an unlock all pages button to version 3 of protopage! Thx!”
Why did this happen ? i need to know!
July 29th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
In XP, I use Protopage as my ActiveDesktop. Got this tip from Lifehacker.com!
July 30th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Charles - unlocking your page doesn’t mean that someone else can edit it - it just means that other people can view it. We suspect that what actually happened was that you logged into your Protopage once from your mother’s work machine, and then she was able to edit your pages because when she visited your page later, she was still logged in as you. The solution is to remember to log out of Protopage when you use it on someone else’s machine. We’ll get some better documentation together for version 3.
August 12th, 2006 at 5:04 am
I’ve never been to her office , and she does not know my password.& I know that unlocking your pages doesn’t do that. p.s. can you still add a lock& unlock all pages button
August 12th, 2006 at 5:20 am
We need sound ! Thx,Dave&Charles