iGoogle Monitoring Social Networks
It seems sometimes the best solution is the easy one we overlooked. I have struggled to find the best way to monitor my social networks and communications. The 4 applications I have been trying to keep tabs on seamlessly are Twitter, FriendFeed, eMail (Gmail) and Google Talk.
I liked some of the 3rd party offerings such as Twhirl for Twitter, but I am tired of being tethered to my desktop with software and having all these different tones to announce a new Tweat, or a friend logging into GTalk.
Rediscovering iGoogle was the best thing that has happened for me.
With iGoogle I utilize several widgets to load each application and with one glance I can keep up with everything. Most of these widgets have options for amount of data and refreshing. Also, no more annoying bells and whistles.
The Widgets I am using are :
Twitter – BeTwittered Info : 32Hours
FriendFeed – FriendFeed Widget
GTalk – Gtalk Widget
Gmail – Gmail Widget
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Written by: David Cooley
Posted in Blogging
Tags: BeTwittered, Email, FriendFeed, Google, Google Talk, GTalk, iGoogle, Social Networking, Twitter
Pretty cool set up David.
David,
I just set up my igoogle just like you. I have not used it too much. I have primarily used just gmail and google reader. I will try it out.
-Fred