Feed Readers

A feed reader is a website page that you can drop your choice of feeds onto. A useful way to use a feed reader is as a personalised home page where you can assemble your favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else you enjoy on the web - all in one place. One we use at Katikati College is Pageflakes which is a start page similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Netvibes and Microsoft Live. At www.Pageflakes.com, you can easily customise the Internet and make it yours using ‘”Flakes” – small, movable versions of all of your web favorites that you can arrange on your personal homepage. You can also participate in the Pageflakes community, sharing your page as a “Pagecast” with a private group or with the world, and connecting with other users across the globe.The site is organised into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes. Each Flake varies in content; information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, delicious bookmarks, Flickr photos, social networking tools like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, email and user-created modules.