Metabrowse Your Web Routine?

Posted by Cliff on Friday July 26, 2002 @03:39PM from the another-fancy-name-for-"portal" dept.

AJ-perler asks: "About 2 years ago 'Metabrowsers' were the new hot browsing tools that addressed the trend of users frequently browsing specific sites. Business 2.0 ran an article late 2000 about the problems metabrowser companies faced. I think metabrowsers are interesting and useful, but I haven't seen mention of them for a long time. Do any Slashdot readers use these few that have survived? Is the general public web savvy enough, even today, for this type of browsing?"

For those of you interested in this concept, AJ has provided this list of example "meta-browsing" sites:

Yodlee.com - Aggregator of your financial web sites.
QuickBrowse.com($) - Emails web pages to you.
DailyRoutine.com - Browse a list of web pages."

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Mozilla Grouped Bookmarks by Paul+Burney · 2002-07-26 16:22 · Score: 2, Informative

I suppose it isn't exactly metabrowsing, but in mozilla 1.0 you can file a group of tabs as one bookmark. Just choose "File Bookmark" from the "Bookmarks" menu, and click the "File as Group" checkbox.

I use it to browse slashdot, the register, macsurfer, etc., for my morning tech news, without having to go to each sit individually.

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Use Opera's "Save window setup..." by OnTheEdge · 2002-07-27 04:08 · Score: 2, Informative

I have 4 sites I visit each day. Initially, I opened each in its own Opera window, ordered them as I wished, and saved the set up. Now I just open Opera each morning, and it loads all the sites in the order I wish to view them. As I finish viewing a site, I close its window. Once I see a blank screen, it's time to return to real life.