Its Like Super Wal-Mart Online!

Now that it is the second half of the semester I am going to switch to a new blog topic. The topic is personalized start up pages and it is HOT! This aggregates all of your coolest web 2.0 tschnology and puts it all in one convenient spot so you can access it from any computer (if you opt to put in your web address). I do think its like Super Wal-Mart in the sense that all of your previously separate sites are now in one place (just like the concept of one-stop shopping-only better because this costs you NO money). I checked out http://netvibes.com and ended up setting up my own personalized start up page there. Netvibes is a smaller personalized start up page site (as compared to Yahoo or Google which also offer the service). However, netvibes was described as being a very up and coming site so that is why I chose to check it out first. These are the awesome features you can enjoy by setting up your personalized page with them:

-RSS feed
-E-bay
-Del.icio.us
-bookmarks
-local weather
-webnotes to yourself
-calendar
-blog, web and video searching
-several e-mail services (ex-Yahoo)
-Meeboo for IMing
-flicker photos
-writely documents (to share academic articles with a team member)
-web storage (to store your files online and leave more room in your computer)
-blogmarks
-bookmarks
-Alexa traffic (view traffic on several domains at once in the form of a line graph)
-AOL
-Digg (top stories)
-Fox Sports Video
-MySpace
-Netvibes news
-Techcrunch (techie related news)
-everyone on netvibes tagged photos

This site was easy to set up and offers lots of new web 2.0 technology to explore! I love the idea of being able to go to just one place to have access to all of these different tools! It makes life just a little bit easier...and a little bit more fun: when you think of it in terms of a shopping analogy, how could it not be?