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BricaBox – Social Media Personalized Homepages

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:12 PM | Social Social Media Blogging Technology Social Networking

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At first glance BricaBox appears to be similar to build-your-own homepage/website like Pageflakes, Netvibes and iGoogle. BricaBox is based off of WordPress. BricaBox offers several readymade feeds and widgets to add content to the pages and allow your friends, audience or group vote on them.

Kind of a WordPress blog on steroids if you ask me.

 

BricaBox.com

 

“Have you ever wanted to take your friends or audience and build your own social content website, inspired by YouTube, CitySearch, IMDB, Wikipedia, Yelp, or Flickr? It used to take thousands of dollars and computer programming knowledge to make a site where people could collaborate on content.

Now, with BricaBox, you can have your own social content website, powered by you and your friends, group or audience, in just minutes, and for free.

We've taken the best of blogs and social networks, added some amazing new tools and features, and created a platform for you to create your own version of your favorite social content website. Choose from our one-click selection of BricaBoxes or create a totally custom version.” BricaBox

I think though, that BricaBox falls more into the personalized homepage category more than social media. However, the application does appear to allow users to vote on and/or comment on items, but then again blog applications also allow comments.

BricaBox does bring some social networking tools into the personalized homepage niche. However, the site launched right in the middle of what is been coined as the “personalized homepage wars”. BricaBox faces some stiff competition with My Yahoo, iGoogle, My MSN, My AOL, Netvibes and Pageflakes all fighting tooth and nail for market share.

Currently My Yahoo owns nearly 57% of the personalize homepage market share and iGoogle comes in around 26% of market share.

I think BricaBox has its work cut out for it, if it wants to gain a foothold in the personalized homepage, instant content niche. This entire niche has become hyper-competitive.

I plan on giving BricaBox a try and see what all the hoopla is about, be sure to come back and read my upcoming review.

As always, I enjoy reading and replying to your comments!



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Gravatar # re: BricaBox – Social Media Personalized Homepages
Posted by Nate Westheimer on 2/26/2008 3:53 PM
Hey thanks for the review. The personalized homepage analysis is actually the first I've heard. Worth wrapping my head around.

To say we have our work cut out for us is an understatement though! There's a long road ahead, but we're really excited people are "getting it." Check out the video on our homepage to see how we describe it.

Anyway, thanks a bunch. I look forward to your feedback once you've played around some more.

Nate Westheimer
CEO - BricaBox
nate (at) bricabox -dot- com
Gravatar # re: BricaBox – Social Media Personalized Homepages
Posted by allen on 2/26/2008 4:16 PM
Hi Nate and thanks for stopping by. Soon as I have a bit more time I will get an account and give everything a try. Allen
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