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[Yourminis][1], a new site from the folks that brought us [goowy.com][2], looks and behaves a whole lot like Apple's dashboard app. The chief difference being that yourminis is housed in your browser window.
Yourminis is a Flash-based web app that creates a homepage with a number of little widgets that pull in whatever web services you'd like to track. The default set includes a Google search widget, quote of the day, RSS feed reader, weather, YouTube videos, Flickr images and more.
I was always impressed with the UI of Goowy, which has to be one of the more impressive attempts to duplicate your desktop within a browser window, but the appeal of yourminis is kind of lost on me.
Is it just me or does it seem like lately we're living in some revenge of the portal movie? I've been playing with yourminis off and on for most of the day and the more I look at it the more I have flashbacks to Lyco's "homepage portals" of yesteryear. Of course yourminis is better looking, infinitely more functional and easier to use, but the concept is essentially the same.
Then again, I've never used Apple Dashboard app either. Maybe I'm just not a widget guy, if widgets and homepages are your thing, yourminis is certainly a very impressive rendering of the concept.
[1]: http://www.yourminis.com/ "yourminis.com"
[2]: http://www.goowy.com/ "goowy.com"
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