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My Times start page launches on NYTimes.com

My Times start page launches on NYTimes.comPersonalized webpages are all business when it comes to the New York Times personalized My Times page.

Like other start pages, Netvibes, iGoogle, PageFlakes, MyYahoo and Windows Live, MyTimes allows users to pull in all of their important everyday RSS news and build a single resource. Widgets like weather, Flickr, stock quotes and crosswords can also be added to pages. Sections can be dragged around and reorganized like the other offerings as well.

Where MyTimes differs is that readers can choose to have their pages set up by Times journalists for news and entertainment. Offering a first hand look into their sources of information.

Filed under: Web services

Pageflakes plans to add 10,000 flakes (widgets)

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Personalized home page site Pageflakes allows you to customize a start page with flakes (the rest of the world calls them widgets, Microsoft calls them gadgets). Flakes include weather forecasts, email services, calendars, to-do lists, and RSS feeds.

Pageflakes has a repository of flakes, and it's about to get a lot bigger. CEO Dan Cohen says the company plans to offer a directory of 10,000 flakes starting next month. Now the thing about widgets that are embedded in web pages is that there's really only so many things you need them to do. Check your email, get maps, keep up on the latest blogs and news web sites, check stock quotes, etc.

I figure there's maybe a few dozen things I might want in a start page, tops. And once you put those few dozen things on a page it becomes cluttered and hard to read. Pageflakes gets around that problem a bit by providing you with tabs, allowing you to create as many custom pages as you'd like. Use one for work, one for checking stocks, another for reading your guilty pleasure blogs.

Some of the new flakes will let you do things like keep track of other users' MySpace pages or share photos. But still, 10,000 seems like an excessively large number of applications. My bet is that about 9,500 of those flakes will be RSS feeds for various web sites.

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Pageflakes: Personalized home page of the moment

PageflakesYep, yet another one. Pageflakes is a personalized home page along the lines of Google Personalized Home, Netvibes, and so on. It's nice and AJAXy as we've come to expect and has a pretty good selection of widgets ("flakes"), including address book, sticky notes, to-do lists, Gmail, headlines, and so on. One nice feature not seen everywhere else is the ability to create multiple pages, which take the form of tabs at the top of the page and let you have multiple sets of widgets organized for, say, Work and Play. It also has a third-party API for creating your own widgets and just now they're sponsoring a widget contest the grand prize for which is an Xbox 360.

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