You guys should check out Netvibes. It's this cool website that basically, as the article that first pointed me in its direction said, "fits the whole Internet onto one page." It really does! A lot of other sites like Yahoo or Google that manage to cram a lot in, but you really only have access to sites that are owned by the respective parent companies. Netvibes, on the other hand, lets you add a button/window thing for pretty much anything you want. It's almost too much to handle; that's why I haven't made it my homepage (yet...) Anyway, let me know what you think!
I really like that site! it makes so much sense . . . instead of having everything on a bookmark bar, or in a favorites list, it's right there. Good find! Thank you. I guess this dire need to plaster up the most popular sites (i.e. google, NY Times, weather, etc.) really speaks to the vastness of information on the internet, like we've talked about before.
I wonder how many minutes this site will now save me--as I won't have to go to each of the sites I want. Well, maybe it will mean I can be more efficient on the internet and get more practical stuff done. Hopefully, we'll see . . .
I love the drag-and-drop consoles. It's all so seemless and clean looking yet it's completely online. It feels like a non-web app in that it just works so well. Traditionally, applications online have been so clunky and cronically have capatability issues (take Pomona's employee time card app Kronos, for example, which forces me to use Safari instead of Firefox). This is definitely changing as web developers become more and more brilliant. That's why everyone's eyes are on the Google (free) web-based word/spreadsheet processing applications. Everyone is excited about the possibility of apps like these. Everyone, that is, except for the rightfully-frightened Microsoft.
This site seems extremely promising... The only problem I see is that it only lets you add sites with feeds. I can add something like mlb.com that runs mostly on flash or the entire facebook site, even though I could probably do a page or two...