There are a number of companies offering services to create your own start page. Simply put, rather than having one home page, you can have many pages feeding to one or more aggregated pages.
On your home page you can choose to have a mixture of LINKS, RSS FEEDS, FLICKR PHOTOS, WEATHER MAPS, CLOCKS etc. In Norfolk if you’ve been using the VLE, it’s a bit like the opening page of modules but in this case you have complete control as to what goes on there and it’s a lot easier to change and alter. You can also have categorised subpages which are just a click away.
The following screen grabs come from a NetVibes enabled start page.
This is a page of EDU Blogs
The good thing about Netvibes is you can have Public and Private Pages.
So you turn your Public Pages into a website for everyone to see.
is but one of many and I’m sure there are more to come.
There’s a post here from Sue Waters about setting up igoogle a personalised learning (PLE) start page.
Another post explains how to make iGoogle your own, from Alan Levine.
Here’s a Page Flakes start page from Creative ICT
Here is PageFlakes set up for a class.
Here’s another example of netvibes shared and used as a web site.
A discussion about Start Up Pages at ‘The EDUBlogger’
