When I first looked at the 23 Things list, I thought Thing 4 would be easy. After all, I created an iGoogle page when they first came out, a My Yahoo page many years ago, a My Netscape page before that, and a My AOL page back when AOL was the only game in town. That must mean I did Thing 4 a long time ago!
In the spirit of trying something new, I decided to check out Netvibes and Pageflakes. I navigated to the Netvibes page and turned on all the check marks. It chugged away and informed me I had 941 new things to read. Yikes! I don't need that much news. Pageflakes seemed clean and simple by comparison. They both have good integration with Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail, but so do iGoogle and My Yahoo. I saw no reason to switch. Actually, I have my home page set to the Google search page. I find I use the Internet most often to do research, so it is a nice simple, calm place to start.
For some reason, seeing all those new home pages with their embedded weather information caused me to want to add local weather to my blog. Thus began a long involved process to get what I wanted, the data from our own weather station at Anna Reynolds. In the end, I needed to change my blog template to get the gadget to display correctly. While searching for the html code, I found some links to the data which I added to the blog. Give them a try!
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I like my iGoogle Homepage as well -- as simple as I want it to be or as busy as I dare to make it -- Nice weather gadget
ReplyDeleteI continue to be impressed with the depth with which you are exploring the assignments in this activity. Kudos to Fairwind!
ReplyDeleteOK Boatman. How about some links that show you deserve your name. Links for a new boat!!!
ReplyDeleteTechnology can get really "cluttered" - it's fun to explore, but I know that I always end up going back to the simplest way to get something done - iGoogle is "it" for me as well
ReplyDeleteJoan