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Suggestion for Google's/Microsoft's portal start pages

One thing I think would be cool for Google's personalized homepage and Microsoft's Start.com, the merits of which I pontificated about previously, would be to have an option that would read through the web parts content areas displayed on a customized page, and export them as a single OPML file (or alternatively in Google's case, imported directly into Google Reader) .  OPML would be more universal a solution for use in other apps and situations, but either way, it'd be neat to not only import content en masse into a portal, but also to have a portal export subscribed content for other uses, integrated or not.
Posted: Oct 08 2005, 09:56 AM by guam-aspdev | with 1 comment(s)
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Neil Williams said:

You might also be interested in a brand new start page available called Funky Homepage. It's comprised mainly of Google gadgets (as well as Gadgets from other sources), live news feeds (with your choice of news provider), daily Bushisms, daily jokes, horoscopes, videos, weather (up to 5 locations), interactive calendar, Google calendar viewer (for up to 5 Google calendars), comic strips and lots more besides. It also lets you choose your own search engine, colour scheme, etc.

Unlike many of the other personalised start pages available, there's no need to create an account and it's all already set up for you, with the most popular gadgets organised by category and sub-category. So there's virtually no setting-up work required by the user, making it ideal for those (like me) who can't be bothered to do all the work of setting up their own page. More advanced (and less lazy) users can choose to add their own Google gadgets and RSS feeds, but most people just use the gadgets and tools provided.

It's free to use and you can check it out at http://www.funkyhomepage.com

# May 28, 2007 1:49 PM
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