@Ronald van Raaij: Very true...I would never trust websites to that extent. Just makes me nervous thinking about it!

lakesnake

Bank Of America has similar feature under "My Portfolio". They give access to email, skymiles account, bank account, credit cards, rewards accounts and more. Since I am already trusting my bank to keep my money, I would trust them to hold all my account info too.
Why would you give all your information to someone who you do not even deal with ?

combyo

This would make a great local page. Surely someone can make an all in one portal that runs in a single local page, like the way tiddly wiki runs locally. You still have the xss danger, but at least you don't need some server somewhere to know your bank account login.

azpat

@aniruddha23: Yes. The same company that gives access to your bank site runs sites like Mint and possibly this one. People aren't coming up with a thousand ways to securely access data - only a few companies have the ability to provide that securely. Much of the time it is the same company (and level of security) that you get by logging into your own bank's site. It is what you feel comfortable with an outside org. having your numbers that is the problem.

zingbot

It is not just security (although I never give away a password) but you banks' terms of service may include a provision that states you may not give your login details to anyone else, or you will become liable for any fraud that may occur...
However interesting these apps: I will never trust anything or anyone with my passwords if a prerequisite is that they 'leave' my oversight.

Ronald van Raaij

PageOnce (and all startpages like Netvibes) are quite scary, security-wise.

But can you have a web service that provides the convenience of quick access to your online accounts combined with perfect security and privacy?

The answer is yes! Just head over to Clipperz ([www.clipperz.com]).

It's an online password manager that knows nothing about your data thanks to its heavy use of browser-based cryptography. All you data are encrypted locally by the browser itself before being uploaded to Clipperz.

And Clipperz also offers a great one-click login feature that allows to automatically login to (almost) any website without entering username and password.

I might be a tab biased ... :-)

Marco
Clipperz co-founder

mbarulli

I've been thinking about this for awhile... It'd be nice to have a central hub that would present all feeds in one central place. It would also be nice if it would add things automatically (for example, if you post an article or comment somewhere, the status of that thread would be monitored on the homepage).

I constructed my own personal homepage to serve as a portal to my frequently used sites/services, complete with some RSS feeds... but updating it requires digging into the PHP. A more automated content-managed system would be better.

cavalierex

Weren't do-all portals so like 1999?

gopanthers

Looks a lot like Netvibes to me.

Tobi

I use [www.clipperz.com] to access all of my websites. It has excellent and completely open security. The feature that is most relevant is the direct logins for one-click access. I great website and a must use!!

joelotz

@zingbot:
No. The bank site owns the information. Banks usually have very stringent policies for data access and its definitely more diffcult for it to get compromised via the bank site. Here you are just giving away access to a random startup.

aniruddha23

I prefer MyPortfolio from Bank of America. Same thing, but in my mind more secure.

KenB525

Because your bank site is more secure than the security that *runs* your bank site?

zingbot

well, registered but have to wait for the invitation to test. But certainly no private information in that thing for sure.

kentjchen

Hmmm... got a little too much publicity too fast?

William Gridley

Registration is down :-(

univision

I don't know about stealing privacy, but I certainly won't be entering my bank account information *anywhere* except at my bank's web site.

Seth

cue:

"omg i will nevar use this they will STEAL MY PRIVACY!"

[/sarcasm]

stinkyboy

Yes, this is pretty nice. I saw it on TC this morning and signed. I've added a few billers, air miles, and cellular to my page. I'm planning to add my Am Express but am hesitant to give my banking info to them. I may wait a little longer before doing that.

I was impressed that they listed my Credit Union as an option (BTW. see 6% checking if interested-- www.smartratechecking.com -- )

I like what I see so far.

ErikH

yea there's too much lose in terms of privacy and not only that I take objection to this for the same reason I do with government, I don't want any or all of my information to be consolidated in one "convenient" place. Also makes it easier to be syndicated ..honestly with some of the biggest companies having data theft problems - why would anyone trust this to some 3rd party group.

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