Thing #28 Customized Home Pages

I love MY YAHOO homepage. I have had it set up for awhile now and it's great! I have a widget for:

my yahoo email
the weather
Star Tribune
Cnn
The Onion
People
St. Cloud movie theatre

and now I was searching around and found a new widget that's called "Overheard in the Office." It's awesome! I highly recommend that one for entertainment.

#27 Twitter

I gave it another go. . . but I just don't like Twitter and I see no use for it personally. Maybe I just have a negative attitude about it. I added my picture, found some people to follow, but I just saw it as pointless. I know people are crazy about it and there are numerous ways to use it - this can be justified by how many blogs and websites there are with offshoots of topics about Twitter.

I went to www.twitspy.com and watched that for awhile. A map is displayed of the world which corresponds to tweets that are being posted and the location. After seeing the following tweets:

hmmm steak

and

That's my all time favorite color for my toes!!!

I came to the conclusion that it was like spying on someone's text messages or email and not really knowing what context these bits of information were from.

. . . On a positive note; I do like the Twitter color scheme and the bird theme though.

#26. Join the Ning

I joined the ning the last round but really didn't do much with it. This time around I customized MY PAGE more. I found some friends in the CMLE group, uploaded a photo, joined a group, and played around with adding avatars, etc.