Pageflakes

I have been playing around with Pageflakes, another personalized start page, this week. It has some glitches but, at a glance, I like it better than the Google start page. If you would like to take a stab at creating your own Pageflakes account go to
http://pageflakes.com
At Pageflakes, "flakes" are things that you can put on your start page. You have 106 options. A Pageflakes start page can be public, private or shared with just a few people, for example a committee that you serve on, or your close family. Several of the flakes take advantage of this sharing capability. A message board is one option. There are many options for adding bookmarks from various bookmarking services. Flakes are reviewable and I did find a couple that just didn't work. For example, Peerfactor file sharing seemed like it might be useful on a shared page but it would not work for me and another reviewer gave it one star. In addition to flakes, users can add RSS feeds and podcasts. Feeds and podcasts must be chosen from a list but users are invited to submit their favorites. I will try submitting something new and let you know how it goes. My Pageflakes page can be viewed at http://www.pageflakes.com/gdchouin.ashx
In my next blog entry I'm going to head back to Google and compare it a bit with Pageflakes.