ProtoPage

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http://www.protopage.com/ 

Every once in a while a technology comes along that completely changes the way you do your daily work.  Protopage is one of those technologies.  ProtoPage is a web site that gives you all the tools to easily create dynamic content on the web without any knowledge of HTML, scripting, or FTP.  All you need to know how to do is type into a box.  You can create links, upload pictures, add notes and incorporate RSS feeds into your page.  Once you have content, you can literally drag the content to any location on the page… and it stays there.  You can also drag the corner of a content box and resize its window.

I have created a page for EDUC560.  Go to

http://www.protopage.com/educ560

This page includes links to all the important online servers at UFindlay.

I now use ProtoPage as my personal start page.  My personal page is at

http://www.protopage.com/alvintrusty

and it’s password protected.  Now my home computer, office computer, laptop and tablet all have the same dynamic starting page.  I can change the page (add a link, create a new note, etc) and the changes are automatically reflected on all my computers.

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2 Responses to “ProtoPage”

  1. Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Start Page Says:
    April 3rd, 2007 at 8:38 pm

    [...] Where does your browser start? Currently mine goes to Protopage. A lot has changed with this free service since I blogged about it almost a year ago. The main thing that I now notice every time I open my browser is the sluggishness of the site. Sometimes my browser will take fifteen to twenty seconds to load my page. I don’t know if Protopage is bogged down or if I have too many items on my start page. It’s probably a little of both. I am very demanding of my start page. I have a dozen RSS feeds bringing all the news I want to one page. Three different sets of links get me to UF, Popular and Course related pages. Of course I have the local weather and quick notes to myself (the killer app of the Web 2.0 start page). I have five different computers pointed to my start page. From any of those computers I can make a change and it is instantly available to all the machines. [...]

  2. Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Blog Archive » Protopage Upgrade Says:
    July 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am

    [...] Sometime yesterday Protopage had an upgrade. Here is what the site looked like before the [...]

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