Mondaymorning blues : Protopage

Filed in archive Web 2.0 on February 26, 2007

Mondaymornings are mostly slow. That is, business goes on as usual and there's enough to do as on every morning, but on monday I startup a bit slow, as most people I think. This morning, when I was going through my gmail, in the right sidebar I saw an ad for protopage. I clicked on it, and when I looked at the page, I was overwelmed with, err, mixed feelings.



Yes, the page looks attractive and it asks you to give the page a title, which is fun. But at the same time, it made me loose interest. Couldn't they come up with a title themselves ? Were they so eager to launch they could not find the time to think of a title ? Or is this supposed to be cool, or fun ? Protopage ? I have to say the page is wellmade, it is pretty interactive and fast, it attrackts you by moving under your mouse movement, but if you look at functionality, which I usually do, I am not impressed. What they offer is already available in my macbook's dashboard, and on several other websites too. I don't know who invests in this, but I sure won't.