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Fav4.org Is a Dead Simple but Very Attractive Start Page
- ashishbharthi 17y agoI think this is what Favorites/welcome page of a browser should look like.
- Timothee 17y agoThis is what the "Top Sites" feature of Safari is trying to accomplish. But it didn't convince me so much…
- lr 17y agoIt would be great if Safari (and the others) had an option of either the page content (which is what they do now), or just a nice image like fav4.
- aw3c2 17y agoLike Opera's Speed Dial?
- huhtenberg 17y agoAs per usual - Opera had this in a form of its "speed dial" page for a while now, Still using the Firefox though :)
- samdk 17y agoThis is basically what the blank 'new tab' page in Chrome is. (Except that that shows eight links instead of four.)
- Zak 17y agoOpera has done that for a while. Safari and Chrome have it. It's available as an extension for Firefox. It looks like there's even an IE addon with similar functionality.
- mattdennewitz 17y agogorgeous! i want this for 5 rss feeds.
- Timothee 17y agoI was thinking of something like this when the Facebook login story on RWW came out a week or two ago. With a start page that looks like an [iPhone|Android|your favorite device] screen , there's less risks of being confused.
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- synnik 17y agoAttractive, yes. But why, exactly, is this better than my browser's bookmarks?
- georgekv 17y agohttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo... Maybe this?
- jackowayed 17y agoHow is this related whatsoever?
- mortenjorck 17y agoThis could be better than your browser's bookmarks. While I appreciate the simplicity of it, it's too simple as it is now. The potential benefit here is in hierarchy, which bookmarks generally lack. How about this: 4 links at the big 128 x 128 size. The sites you check every session. 8 links at 64 x 64. The ones you use pretty frequently. 16 links at 32 x 32. And heck, maybe 32 at 16x16. I would use that.
- Groxx 17y agoIt's... shinier? Not to imply that's degrading it, lots of people have trouble handling the bookmarks menu, and this is much more graphically memorable / understandable, so it's likely they could get it more easily. The buttons are also bigger, which (though I'm HUGELY against large browser chrome) can be useful.
- dawson 17y agoI get excited by these services (iGoogle, Netvibes) and end-up using them for about a week before defaulting back to google's homepage. Love Fav4's design though!
- pavel_lishin 17y agoI just slap those links in my bookmark bar, and start on about:blank
- wonsungi 17y agoTry http://www.bkmks.com http://www.bkmks.com: (Google) search box at the top; organize your favorite links below via drag & drop. Fast and simple. I just wish it had tabs and easy/multiple delete (I hacked together a javascript bookmarklet to work around the multiple-clicks-to-delete-a-single-link issue)
- mdolon 17y agoMade something like this before but never made it public, though mine looks more like the iPhone home screen.
- panic 17y agoLooks nice, but why do I have to choose 4?
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoBecause more will be available in the registered version once the freemium users have thoroughly tested things? Because they're harvesting the data and want to ensure that even less popular pages get some ranking data? Couldn't quickly think of any other reasons.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoBecause that's the domain they could get? :)
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoHa, totally missed the name and just read it as fava, doh, brain surgeon to aisle 3 please.
- bwag 17y agoLooks beautiful, but I don't see a Hacker News icon anywhere in their list of available sites.
- ashishbharthi 17y agoI have already submitted it as site suggestion.
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- chuhnk 17y agoI love it. I think it's really great, and I'll tell you why. First, simplicity. I think websites as a whole suffer from information overload and the simpler something is the easier it is to use, which makes it accessible to everyone. Second, the design. Its great, why not have favourites as icons? Every website now has a logo which marks their brand, we've become accustomed to viewing them everywhere so its easy enough to look at it and know exactly what it is. Its brilliant, visual and the kind of steps others should be taking in terms of UX. Third, its on the web. Safari, firefox and chrome start pages are in your local browser, but we dont all use the same machine everyday do we? I switch between 2 or 3 as I'm at work, then at home or at a friends. My only thought would be, I want to see more than 4 icons without ruining the visual. If you can achieve that then I'm sold.
- acid_bath 17y agoEh, I think it's a solution in search of a problem. Other than looking cool, if you timed yourself, I bet it's much faster to just type it. (on my mac): Cmd + L type "gm" (gmail.com is now highlighted in the dropdown because it's one of the 4 most frequent websites I visit and FF is smart enough to know I probably want it) Enter Total time: Less than it takes for fav4.org to load.
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoOr, in Safari, you can invoke your bookmark bar favorites by pressing Cmd+[1-9], where 1-9 matches its position. I have Gmail as the left-most item in my bar and access it by pressing Cmd+1.
- listic 17y agoYep. Plus I hate being always told what to do; I fear it helps to kill my creativity. That's why I always set start page to blank and turn off Opera's speed dial forever (after admiring it for a while). That said, a solution is nice. UPDATE: Hm, now I think I could set my homepage to this, but leave start page as blank. This way I won't be distracted the moment I start the browser, yet be able to reach this launchpad with a press of "Home" button whenever I want to.
- sumeetjain 17y agoI use http://start.io http://start.io for the same service. It's as simple and attractive, but I can add more links and very basically organize them.
- gxs 17y agoHm. I prefer the google chrome homepage to this. It is also simple and displays the sites it knows you visit regularly.
- martythemaniak 17y agoThe difference between "simple" and "trivial" is functionality. Unlike the Safari/Chrome/Opera startpages, this is utterly, utterly useless.
- kentosi 17y agoLooks nice, and would probably be a great recommendation to relatives or friends. On a site such as "hacker news", where the majority of users would be fast-typing power users, I think we would prefer to stick to our blank homepage and type what we need in the address bar. Personally, I use the bookmarks toolbar in forefox / ie for my top 4 links.
- est 17y agoIt's funny because three out of four are completely or partially blocked in China.
- necrecious 17y agoLooks like a web version of Safari's Top Site. Except Top Site is a grid. You can place favs in to a particular square, but recent websites you visit a lot will show up automatically on available squares. Hmm, actually a social version of this might be very interesting. Based on your fav sites, other popular fav sites will be recommended to you.
- payjo 17y agoI prefer the chrome homepage like many others have said. Not really sure how useful this really is.
- sasmoray 17y agoFav4.org is nice, but I agree - a bit to simple. There is an alternative - zenstart. It has a Goolge seach box and the 150 most popular links: www.zenstart.com
- sasmoray 17y agoThat is: http://www.zenstart.com http://www.zenstart.com