The Idea Exchange

For those of us who read quite a few different blogs, a news aggregator/personal home page is a fairly useful tool.  iGoogle, Newsgator, and Netvibes are a few of the most popular applications for this, but I personally like Pageflakes a lot better than anything else I’ve tried.  The interface on Pageflakes is much better looking than most and allows you to view just a short snippet of all the recent posts on that particular blog.  Of course you can add many different kinds of widgets as well, such as a calendar, to-do list, and videos.  If there is a link or a picture in the post, Pageflakes displays it on the main page.  You can always read the first several lines of the post without even having to click to it so its easy to determine if you’d like to read the whole article or not.

Tomorrow, according to this article from The Next Net, Pageflakes is set to introduce a major new feature to their site.  Along with all the wonderful current capabilities, users will now be able to enter Pageflakes’ social network and share his or her page and collaborate with others.  This should be an interesting new feature because it opens up the possibility to see what blogs your friends, or like-minded people are reading, and also just browse to find any kind of new information that you’re not aware of.

I also think that this will propel Pageflakes towards the top of the news aggregator/personalized page segment of the market.  Pageflakes already has the most visually pleasing site, and now adding the blazing hot trend of social networking capabilities, it should be even more enticing to new users.  Give it a try. You mind find it to be a substantial upgrade to what you are currently using.