Symbaloo

Symbaloo

posted by Jane Plüer
on 05 August 2007

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Symbaloo-medium

Team

Tim Has, Robert Broeders, Koen Dantuma and Eduard Weijgers


Tags

2.0, interface, web

Could this be your new homepage?

Symbaloo is a site that creates a visual merger of google in all its forms and guises (dictionary, currency converter, maps, image search, gmail, etc) with your favourite bookmarks. You can manually add and delete links as big square buttons to the gridded layout which is reminiscent of a periodic table.

Future features should allow you to personalise the site even further, with for example the latest news headlines and tv guide added into the visual environment.

This site has potential as it is visually a lot more pleasing than e.g. 'igoogle' - I am curious to see whether it will be widely used, or is it a bit of a gimmick like many web 2.0 sites.


http://www.symbaloo.com

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posted by Malcolm Garrett
on 06 September 2007

I'm not sure...

I tried to customise my own view, but quickly became frustrated by trying to set my desired number of columns and rows, as setting fewer than in the initial view had the effect of deleting any buttons that fell off the edges. The way to do it would have to try to arrange your imagined page with buttons in the correct place first, working out in advance which rows and columns would be deleted, or start again from scratch and re-introduce all of your links.

I just thought it was a bit clunky.

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