PageOnce: All your info are belong to us

I've been fiddling around with this new life organizer website called PageOnce, which is meant to be a one-stop shop for everything transactional you do online. It maintains account information for e-mail sites, social networking, phone bills, banking, credit cards, travel and commercial stuff (e.g. Amazon.com and Netflix). 

Theoretically, the idea of having all of your life info in one place should be appealing.
But there's something about PageOnce that doesn't quite sit right. For one thing, it works fairly well with a few dozen mainstream sites, but there's an entire universe of others that are not available.  To name a few: Expedia, Travelocity,  Buy.com, Half.com, Overstock.com, Google reader, Friendfeed, Pownce, and on and on. 

What you find out after using PageOnce for a while, though, is that it's pretty good for keeping you up to date on things such as account balances and your cellphone minute quotas. However, it's not much good when it comes to performing tasks and transactions.

If you want to read an e-mail you just received, you still have to go back to your webmail site; if you want to do a bank transfer, you have to go to the bank site, to buy a book, back to Amazon. Ultimately then, you're actually going to more web pages than you used to, not fewer. It's sort of a frustrating result after you've spent 45 minutes inputting every password you could think of.

Comments

[Amy]

I began using the service a few months ago and I really like it. I have over 30 accounts in there and use it to track all my frequent flyer miles among other things which has been great.