09th Feb 2006
Gee, Talkr
A friend pointed me at GTalkr.com, which is a flash-based desktop/home page. It’s great in the way it imports Flickr slideshows, YouTube videos, and GMail. It’s basically a personal portal. It’s easy to add new RSS feeds, such as a personal del.icio.us collection.
There was one obvious thing I didn’t see right away: how do I make a simple list of bookmarks? (as in, drag a link into some module in GTalkr) Sure, I can just add it to del.icio.us, and get it through a feed. But I’m talking about a simple list of links. Aside from that, it’s pretty usable, looks good, and it seems reasonably stable.
I’m not sure if the site will “stick” for me. It’s a bit heavyweight - really gets the PowerBook fan going. The AJAX variation on this idea is Protopage, which I like for its freeform approach.
