When I first heard about Pageonce's funded online virtual personal assistant tool, I was very skeptical--the site was still in private beta and I'd seen far too many services that claim to help you manage your life but instead weigh you down with time consuming updating necessities and initial setup processes. But after seeing Pageonce in action, I realized that this was a brand new take on the idea of having a web-based tool act as a personal assistant.
Pageonce also helps you pay bills, receive travel alerts, click-to-call, reply to friend requests on Facebook, update your Netflix queue, etc. It's the direct action capabilities that makes Pageonce so useful--otherwise its merely a startpage with a bunch of links to all your social, finance, travel and entertainment accounts across the web. The service is free for users, and Pageonce pays the bills by working directly with brands to provide highly targeted promotions.
Of course, there's a great deal that can be done with the foundation Pageonce has provided, given the direction in which such personalized services are headed. As a multi-faceted aggregator, Pageonce is putting itself in a position to become a leader and a catalyst for future development, supporting other services in this realm. For instance, Skydeck has released more integration for a social networking perspective on your mobile phone activity. Something like this could be ported into Pageonce and subsequently linked to your mobile provider as well as some of your actual online networks, to a certain degree.