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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2 Responses to “iGoogle Monitoring Social Networks”

  1. Garry Conn Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Pretty cool set up David. ;)

  2. Fred @ Newest on the Net Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    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

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