Interesting Way to See RANKS of "Free OpenSouce"

Visit this link to see the TOP 10 most popular software that has been developed and used and stable.

http://freshmeat.net/browse/11/?hash=ff9292ed03d302d8656489b85045393a&offset=0

Manage Protopage TABS!

Using Protopage v3 has been very confusing for some people. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they got a little frustrated about it. Thankfully Protopage mentioned in their blogs highlighting the changes. Here is a few tips to help.

• COLOR choices is VERY important when managing TABS in Protopage. Think of having 3 or 4 desks all with a different purpose and you need to run to a certain desk with out getting confused. In fact make sure you have set up your favorite colors first for all types of categories(private, restricted and public). It helps to have a "Restricted" and "Public" category made as well, just so you know your color scheme. You may one day use them, otherwise name them "Unused"
  
• Here is my Protopage Example. You will see that I have unique colors for my NEWS to show I have repeated TAB names. NOTE: Make sure your widgets are still in the color of your category as the color reminds you why you using that TAB.
  
• When you make a TAB copy, changes you do in ONE tab, will change them all :D
  
• An example of what your MAIN DESKTOP should contain would be instant things that you need to know.
• You can use "TODOs" for reminders on different months, just add the widget and rename it to "JUN REMINDERS", then add your dates and reminders.
• Be creative with your widgets and TABS, bookmarks does not have to mean just links to your favorite pages. They could be links to common tools at your WORK!
• Have categories for work and studying, and if you need to share your research with someone, just use your "restricted categories" to share them. When done with your research, copy the tab into one of the restricted areas and then set up the password.
• Duplicate your widgets and tabs when moving a widget to share. This is so you feel safer rather than loosing a lot of widgets and tabs from sharing trouble. NOTE: Protopage has removed this feature on an off on some widgets. Carefully hover over the Widget Title and you should see icons.
  
• Don't go over board in sharing widgets and tabs. Be careful who you share your tabs and widgets with. the idea of sharing too many desktops sounds horrific.
• Use "Podcast RSS feeds" as there is a BUILT in player in protopage, you can listen whilst you still browsing your tabs in protopage. While you at it make a notes widget to make your notes on that podcast.
• Make a restricted category to share with your family and friends so they can keep in touch with your day to day stuff. Like a preview of your blog, links to your photos on Flickr. Your friends can stay in touch with you by placing comments. (Worth while).
  

Protopage v3!!!

Just forget my last post. Just start learning Protopage v3. Well done Protopage

Desktop Widget Patterns

Many people may think it is crazy and scary to even share your desktop to other friends, family or colleagues. Protopage's ease of customization of desktops with text formatting of stickies and windows placement, it reveals a new hidden talent that other cannot provide. It is called "Desktop Widget Patterns"

Providing shared editable desktops with just a small amount of steps to setup a "Dinner Brain Storm Menu", I'm kind of explaining a Desktop Widget Pattern.

It is a series of Text formatting and rules just like wiki sites. Some basic rules in creating "Desktop Widget Patterns" are what kind of text formatting is required for each window and rules are required to keep everything in order. With the power of copy/paste and spell checking in web browsers such as Fire fox, the formatting of text is instantly duplicated very quickly. Also Protopage provides a Duplicate Window feature.

So Remember these rules when trying to make new "Desktop Widget Patterns"

• Formatting of text in each window (What is that window used for?)
  
• Arrangement of windows (Why should that window be there?)
  
• Titles of those windows are very important. (What is the desktop's use?)
  
• Provide Rules and a screen shot of your Desktop Pattern (Make sure there less chaos)
  
• Size of the windows (Keep size of windows to size of common MONITOR or SCREEN resolutions size. Don't make page be scrollable for ages maybe. Let the Desktop Windows do the scrolling arrangements for you).
  

Shared Desktop Widget Pattern "Dinner BrainStorm"
Take a look at the screen shot at the top of this article, there are 3 windows, with a title, discussion, and menu area. All editable and shared with the whole family.

Required Protopage Widgets
Using Protopage, the following "STIKI NOTE WIDGETS" should be made based on the "Widget Creation Guide"

1) TITLE stickie note so others can tell what is for.
2) DISCUSSION stiki note to discuss things.
3) MENU stickie note to hold the agreed menu.
4) CODE OF CONDUCT sticki note (Optional) To everything in order and everyone plays right with the pattern.

Widget Creation Guide
1) TITLE stickie note
This should be formatted big and bold and always shown. Don't hide it !! It will show what the desktop is for. Example of a Title Text formatting.
Weekly BURDEN Menus

2) DISCUSSION stiki note
With this window, you will be able to provide talk notes from different members of the family.
You can color code who is who whilst chatting for example Bold BLUE text could me Paul

Format should be Careful on how to keep everyone clear about everything. A CODE OF CONDUCT should document how to chat. Notice time and date format is kept the same.
15/12/2006 : 2:01pm [deleteme]
Old message here that could be deleted by ANYONE!!
15/12/2006 : 2:01pm [readit]
Should we have a "CODE of CONDUCT"? or is the windows self explantary? Could more windows be create to show more detail of things?
15/12/2006 : 3:01pm [await response]
Sounds like a plan, I will let you know. Think I may delete that 15/12/2006 : 2:01pm [deleteme]

3) MENU stickie note
This is where everyone provide suggestions or make personal notes. Format of text should be
MON
Fried Chicken or Fish
with Mashed potatoes and Mixed Vegetables
TUES
Some other new meal
provide a description of stuff here

4) CODE OF CONDUCT sticki note
If things get messy you can provide RULES on how to use the Desktop Widget Patterns, should anyone forget text formatting rules etc. This should hide and other members who can see the Desktop and can optionally read it. And they should read it TOO!!!!

Final Thoughts
This is all meant to be all in good fun, to making new "Desktop Widget Patterns" fun and more interactive. Since everyone is sharing everything these days such as, videos, calendars, to dos, why not share "Desktop Widget Patterns" for Web Desktops. Customizing content is so easy with these Web Desktops. Code of Conduct should be very strong and backups is matter of a print screen! Does Desktop Widget Pattern sound good or Desktop Window Patterns?

Personally I think this idea could go wrong or get better depending on the amount of people you trust and share. Am I going crazy of a silly stupid idea? lol Well I know for one thing, it will save time coding when producing this kinda of stuff. No HTML, no programming language learning, just text formatting and sticking to 'codes of conduct' just like wiki pages really (Where code of conduct is exercised on text formatting heavily).

You know what is crazy, Firefox v2 has a 'built in spell checker'!!! You wonder why hmm (sarcastically)

Could this be the end of Web programming as we know it??? Na of course not the Internet is always evolving, creating new ways to make site building ever so more easier.

I'd also like to stress to never share your Protopage accounts with members you do not trust! could be hazardous to your desktop areas. Maybe make a new account that you are willing to share and trust with certain amounts of people. I'm sure Protopage will go through the accounts and delete the inactive users :p

This is my first Digg story and I am afraid of people's opinions. I Must remember constructive criticism is always good. There are always drafts in making blogs.

Digg Me!!

Granddaughter broke my Linux box

Me and my wife was looking after our 9 month old granddaughter. We let the baby actually move the mouse and play with the keyboard.

My SUSE 10.1 Linux box was fully booted and uses KDE's GUI Manager. we let our granddaughter play with Linux box. TAP TAP TAP, nudge the mouse a little, CLICK CLICK CLICK, maybe some more tapping at the the keyboard. Then hell broke loose on KDE

Somehow she managed to permanently move the task bar to the left side and rendered the KDE's menu button to not work. I Tried to change KDE's Task bar settings to place the task bar back to it's original location, that failed :(

After a little think on how to fix the KDE without trying to destroy my profile, I decided to let KDE make me a new set of settings by renaming the .kde/ .kderc/ folders and let KDE fix it self. After a restart KDE is now fixed :D

I felt sheepish knowing that a baby managed to corrupt KDE with VERY little effort.

Google Homepage with TABS!

On 09-25-2006 at Search Watch someone reported that Google has added tabs. So I logged into my google personal homeage and to my surprise....They are there. They didn't make an update on their blogs either!

Should we be careful?

After looking at this Zimbio.com read someone at digg referred a comment say

"Similar to Zombo.com" which is amusing if you get it. Sites that give you total control. Then the company data mines continously in alsorts of ways.

Isn't bad socialising. Just becareful what you share. Heres a little list to help think about.

• Don't coment that you could regret later.
• Share benefical info that could help others.
• Don't publish bank details or telephone numbers.
• Don't publish things you working on ntil you finished or almost finished

Hehe, I still laugh at zombo.com on and off lol.

Zimbio (Internet Guides)

Internet guides to various topics (Internet portal). Very insanely simple and free to change any group (Which will probably turn into an argument database like Wikipedia).

Zimbio.com

I've installed various content management systems and this is a first for me to see a Content management system ALMOST free of privledges. How does a site like Zimbio.com prevent abuse? A GURU! They have the power to DELETE and need to visit their topics regularly to maintain quality. To become a GURU member you have to try one of the three methods they mention in their guide.

Guru Guide

Go check it out. Or if you like enjoy http://zombo.com/ :p

Note Taking: Reloaded

After pondering about how I should be managing my notes, even started to make a website for my purposes but then I bumped into these links.

TiddlyWiki
Wiki on a Stick

They both allow you to edit your own wiki page without installing any software! A wiki allows you to edit a webpage on the fly with little coding involved. They also can fit on a USB stick too! The developer of "Wiki on a Stick" has collaborated with the developer of "TiddlyWiki" to get his project going with saving routines. They are both amazing pieces of coding anyways.

With the power to create as many pages as you like, it's 'note taking with a kick'.

The Differences

TiddlyWiki : Is designed to be just one file HTML and has been in alot of development and has a search tool with some nice animation. Even though there is tones of features in this it can be complicated at first and it doesn't provide WikiCode help(however their online page provides alot of help worth a read).

Installation is to right click the "empty" and "Save As". I'd save it into a folder as it does generate more HTML pages as you use it.

Incremental backup is done automatically when you 'save changes', you can setup a folder name for all your backups to unclutter from your main HTML page.

There are many ways to navigate around your notes:You can search, view your popular tags, see your history.

Wiki on a Stick: Is designed to be just one file HTML and still in early development. There is even a few nice button images if you save the HTML page with your web browser. It's far more easier to get used to, has a control panel for handling orphan pages. Also provides WikiCode help when you edit any page. No search or datestamps. I'd like to here the performance of this project.

Installation is best done by viewing the page and then using your browser "File->Save Page As", this will provide a folder for the button images too :D

Backup is done everytime you save what you have been editing.

Simpilar design, no search or tagging features. no history. It's good if you know what you looking for and is easier to get to grips with.

Word of Warning
they are both still in heavy development but are functional enough to get down to business with these things. So backup regulary of these files should they become corrupted.

Both projects recommend using Firefox apparently it's functional in Opera and Safari I beleve. I wouldn't recommend IE as I'm no lover of Microsoft's work, here is a few reasons why. Anyways enjoy Note taking to the extreme and backup those files up regularly.

Woohoo SUSEWiki.org

After writing a couple of articles at SUSEWiki I didn't expect to get featured.

Well there it is :D

Couldn't help but call my wife at work and tell her the interesting news. Then called my parents in the UK.

Made me right jolly of myself. Thanks SuSEWiki and Novell :D

SUSE Support

Over the years of using SuSe and not contributing, it finally got to me and I just had to start somewhere :P

I decided to become a member in a couple of areas

LinuxQuestions.org
SuSe Wiki

They have both helped me in the past and since Linux and open source has helped me soo much, I want to try and contribute more articles to these places. Here is my first batch of contributions.

On LinuxQuestions.org
Install on Old Machines (Survival Guide)

On SuSeWiki.org
Wrestling Zen to Work
Setting up VerySecure FTP

My Resume(CV) site redesigned yet again

You will see in my porfolio that I have made many redesigns of my Resume(CV) site. My ingredients

Element Handling : http://prototype.conio.net/
Animation: http://script.aculo.us/
Ajax : http://www.dynamicdrive.com

Visit the site at
http://www.paulburden.co.uk

Amend my last choice of Web Desktop

Prototype hasn't been updated in a while and I'm kinda all cluttered up with windows now. I decided to like netvibes for the following reasons:

• It's more pleasant to look at
• Tabs organise well more than windows
• More effiecient module designs

Reasons why I stopped using Prototype:

• Fiddlely
• Clutter encouraging

Soo much to choose from

Back when it was just Yahoo as the best search engine around, it was kinda obvious about which email service would dominate, now there is loads out there to choose from.

Sometimes we choose a service based from friends and family using it, we choose that and then something else comes out better.

When it comes to knowing different languages that can do the same thing. U'd choose performance but computers are getting soo fast, that won't be a major problem. It sure does help to know how to improve your programs. But it don't help when there is so many languages out there. ASP, PHP, Ruby, perl.

My mind has been in a little frustration about it all and my thoughts on this "choice" issue is what makes us unique. What YOU like, which do you enjoy most? :D

Web Destop Fever Relaxed

After spending alot of time trying to figure out how these new technologies can manage, I am happy with my setup :D

I use protopage and netvibes :D See I still like some features from another "Web Desktop", Netvibes's tabs are great and browsing the news is great along with your fav photos.

So if I was working somewhere else in the world and don't have my computer setup for browsing my online apps and news, I just log in :D

I use webnotes to setup "Desktop Titles" so I know which area I in (Hope that naming feature comes out soon.)

I also decided to make a "web bookmarks" called "My Online Apps", where I just click on what feature I want such as, "email goes to my gmail", "photos goes to my flickr.com" etc etc.

I have desktop2 with only one "webpage" which shows my netvibes.com
Desktop3 and 4 are my public areas if I want to amuse the public.
Desktop 5 is my research area. Where theres lots of notes (But that's private to me in away?)

Well I hope you enjoyed reading my thoughts on managing the web.

You noticed I have collasped a few windows as the mouse over is great for just seeing quick information.

Visit my flickr.com to see my arrangement :P Visit my flickr.com to see my findings, which is in my public area :P

Start to feel like borg?

With all these ways to share, photos, thoughts, videos, files, documents etc.

Tags are the craze to see what's hot online, heres one that was made on ruby on rails.

http://www.tagviewer.com/

Tags the way to see interest?

absolutely amazing way to find popular interest and findings. Tried using Ice Rocket and I was amazed.

Websites such as "flickr.com", "blogmarks", "box.net" and other blog sites use tags to help see what is popular!. The way you see them words bigger the more popular it is really. Simple.

Marketing will probably use it for one, handy to see other ppls thoughts based on your thoughts!

Once again the internet has amazed me. Be careful what you want to show online:D Make sure it's legal somehow and be nice :D Enjoy the other ppls experiences and chat wisely :D The internet can show alot from a username.

Technology Addiction

I believe since sites came out with web2.0 technologise(Ajax for one), i believe it could make alot of ppl addicted to the internet. Mind you other technologies such as TV,Video, Video games can all be addictive. I for one got a little addicted to "Web Desktops" as you can see in my blogspots, flickr, and blogmarks, use tags "web webdesktop, learn"

Don't get yourself in a loop of being addicted to technology, take the odd break from it, keep your skills up to scratch. Well here is a few more pointers

Possible Reasons
Everyone wants to experience life as fully as they can, the internet is kinda cheating as you don't actually do them but enjoy seeing the experiences.

Advice
I believe it is wise to take timeout from using computers,games,internet,movies. Enjoy the great out doors when ever you can. See your friends and marvel life as full as you can.

Also another note, if you want success are a great life, you need to specialse in set of skills, so it's wise to keep them upto scratch (Guess I make that expcetion).

For me reading books (with ACTUAL paper) helps and enjoying the regular walk around the block to see what's happening for regular exercise.

"Web Desktop" Designing?

Take a look at my webspace online. I didn't have to code anything!!!!! (kinda scares me but wow)

With "Protopage" it gives you the ability to design anything with minimal coding!!!!

Check my space online by clicking here!

Took me a while to lay it all out. Rather buggy at times but seems to stay almost all stable. What no web developers? Course we will need them to add more functionalities!!!

Protopage(version2) Bugs found!
Not sure if you're away but when setting up many webpages, and have a "public page", I had a webpage on [Page1] and it showed up in my public area after I logged out. wierd huh? So I deleted some of my private area :(

Web Management Tips

Basically these "web desktops" help manage yourself online rather, "Hmmm what shall I search for?". "Which page shall I go to?" "Is someone online?, which website shall I go to?

Well thanks to web desktops, you can go straight to your spaces on the internet without having to load them up all the time! Thanks to these "Web desktops"

They sure do take a while. I hope they don't reset everything :P That's all we want lol

Just think, you won't have to search or type in loads of web addresses to get your website controls and admin areas.

Protopage!
Pages to manage your types of Desktops (Admin areas, News area, Fun area,etc)Use the panels. They are located in the bottom left :D They cant be rename :P If you end up having many pages blank, Protopage said, "they be automatically delete if not used".

Use "Webpage" module as muchas you like to help customize your views!

Pages

• Page 1 should be general such as, "Calendar,gmail,popmail,Your most watch news, Weather"
  
• Page 3 should be made your public area for everyone to see your set. Also it's handy for your why? Cuz it's FREE related? :P FREE or page 3 could pics about you. You can basically make a website with all this without having to anything!!!!!!!!!! No coding? Huh? Well it depends on what modules are available for these "web desktops" hehe.
• Your pages shuold be categoried on your behaviour such as, "Researching web desktops" ? (Give a guess someone tried loading all the "web desktops" into all one page. Hmmm)
• Since some "Web desktops" don't supply tabs, use "www.netvibes.com" as one of your pages So you benefit from all the features of other "Web Desktops".
• Have "Web Desktop" to only your SOFTWARE page and use "webpage" module to go to all your faviourate software. You won't ever have to upgrade ever again! Writely.com will be one of mine alright :P Or maybe that other online word processor.
• Have a page for just Games!!!!
  

Docking

• If you page represented "admin" sites then use "edit->"send to doc to stop all the clutter :D
• Use them one at a time or collapse them with the two little arrows.
• Don't forget to name your webpages so you can identify them

Notes

• Use widgets and name them carefully :D Thenk why'd you'd need it there such as, 'It's for my researching' cuz I'm researching newspapers from around the world about a particular topic.' thew. Didn't put a comma in that long sentance. Basically you have all the tools are the READY!!

NetVibes
NetVibes I believe have done well in choosing inital first modules available to quickly add on to your "Web Desktop"

BookMarks

• You can use blogmarks to store your boomarks.

Your Fun Misc Stuff like Photos, movies

• Use box.net on netvibes.com

Firefox
If you have "All in gestures" module installed or have some kind of gesture use them on your links alright. Helps having to worry about changing the webpage addresses in "Protopage"

Final Thoughts and Security
Now that you have customized your page behaviours, "Research,News,Admin Areas", you'd think what about secruity

Don't share too much of pages as it would reveal what you are doing on the internet. Absolute amazing for policing! Ok let's dump our browsers.

Brillant to see what your childern are up to. I believe setting up one place with only certain webpages opened.

Don't forget these "Web Desktops" are still in beta, "alpha?"
Post you coments on some more tips if you like or comment away :D

Web Desktop [A Usefull thing?]

For one Web Desktop is handy for people who cannot afford computers yet or at a point where they cannot get to their computer.

The internet is the internet, "Web Desktops" is the internet managed.
I like my home computer to private with no feeds, just my personal files private
"Web Desktops" Manage yourself on the internet

Which Web Desktop will succeed? And is sharing geting to the point of over top? I know if you want stay anoynmous, you better keep your name and address no where on the internet other than your alias.

Will these "Web Desktops" eventually replace our home systems? (BOLD statement, "I don't think so")

I know it will be useful to customize views on how you want to view the internet's thoughts and photos based with "tags", makes having to browse alot in away I think.

It will be interesting to see people's reactions change as these "web desktops" begin to spread more.

youOS
Yet Another Web Desktop
youOS It even has a shell! Just cannot customise much other adding stuff. Looks promising althought it does lack some features like customization of stuff (They probably doing that I hope)

It's like the Web is turning into our very own private area!

This deserves a special mention as it is being designed to be like your very own operating with installing applications and has a shell terminal!

Your START! = Faster Progress!

I found this of a great use to make using Desktops at ease.

Make your own Start for quicker application browsing










Steps

1. Make a folder folder called "My Start" on the desktop
   
2. Make categories of your applications
   
3. Make and place shorts into the folders
   
4. Rightclick toolbar at the bottom and select "toolbars->new toolbar"
   
5. Add Select "My Start" folder and click OK!
   

Optional

• You can unlock the toolbar and move it to the far right Like I have :D
• Place "My Start" folder into a shared area and read only for large users!
  

Benefits
After using "YOUR START" for a long time you will be faster at loading your applications (When you get familar with your menu folders)

Web Desktops Reviewed (Requires web2.0 features)

Wow wee Web2.0 Web Desktops!

After discovering "Web 2.0" latest breakthrough in Web Desktops I couldn't help but fiddle and see which is the best. Some I just knew I wouldn't enjoy it due to restrictions. Anyway here is my findings, there will be a Summary of all the "Web Desktops" to help choose :D Oh and another thing about these "Web 2.0" technologies, I haven't seen any adverts yet! So I will talk about the future of web desktops.

I read up on what "Web Desktops" are out there at TechCrunch (A place to see the latest on web2.0 findings). Having looked at the various desktops, I test the most appealling looks and they as follows (I bracketed their most impressive features):

• Google (Block modules) <--- I believe this started it all but I'm not sure
• Netvibes (Block modules,TAB System,FlickrPhotos)
  
• Goowy (Window modules, Panel Doc)
  
• Protopage (Window modules, Desktop Pages,[Web Page]Module,Share Desktops to world)

A Little Story
Since fiddling with Google and adding many modules, I couldn't help but notice it's lacking TABS, so I moaned at Google (Used feedback) and acidently bumped into netvibes then I kinda switched. Having bumped into Netvibes I bumped into "goowy" and "protopage" with the use of my Netvibe tabs!

The Web Desktops!

Google Homepage Page
Probably the first (I'm not sure) but after seeing the others in development I was gobsmacked, hooked and reel in to this new craze 'Web Desktops'. Over all its worth trying out to see what started it all.

Positives

• Has the most modules out there due to, "they got theirs out first!".
• You can check most of your Google features that comes with a Google accounts. :D
• Can have many modules as you like!
  

Negatives :

• Their module catalogue is rather vast and you can get yourself lost in browsing continously hoping you will find your desired module, a nice place to waste time :P
• Boomarks is ok but end up getting a long list.
• lacks organise features such as tabs or windows. It also looks clunky looking as it's google style to look basic (Probably inspired by w3c).

Interesting Modules (That I found of use)

• RSS Feeds : These are at a plenty!
  
• Gmail : Privacy is at ease here as you are already at Google!
  
• Weather
• Stocks
  

Netvibes
This was my first gobsmacker (Amazed!), the best feature of this is the TABS! They can; move,change icon, rename any tab you like! And best of all you can have MANY TABS! Still in Beta though

positives :

• The RSS Feeds has a nice feel to it, once you have opened up an article from one of your feeds you get to browse it first with out any adverts!
• Having customised your tabs you can set different tabs for different uses such; Research,Programming News, World News, General (For all your important stuff like todo)
• You can share a harddrive with box.net, the module is rather nice :D You can share up to 1GB!
  
• "Add Content" modules supplies a nice bunch of facilities
  

Negatives :

• No window system to scatter your modules
  

Interesting Modules (That I found of use)

• Flickr Photos : I was able to see a photo selection of my choice in different tabs!
• Rss Feeds : Impressive preview system before actually viewing the article.
• Weather : Practically standard
• WebNotes : It's nice to color them in and have different nots on different tabs
• ToDo : Rather nice maybe a bit cluncky in saving and edit
• Blogmarks : Great way to save your bookmarks online
• box.net : You can share a harddrive! Store up to 1GB worth data!

Goowy
This is a very impressive web desktop looks rather like a MAC OSX!, there are a few draw backs which I noticed. First you need "Flash", some of the modules are constrainted such as Calendar,Email,GamesView, constrainted as in windows don't move. However the animation and graphic system of Flash helps you to say this is your Desktop.

positives :

• The ability to move windows in "Mini"
• ManageMini helps organse your RSS Feeds
• Contact,Calendar,Email has an impressive GUI system
• Nice Customisable window colors and background!
• Impressive Animation added to modules!
  

Negatives :

• Once you have fiddle with the features you may find it lacks organise features such as TABS.
  
• You only have ONE place to store have all your RSS Feeds open. They only exception a "Manage Minis" window that you cannot hide but provides a way to browse your RSS feeds.
• You are also restricted on your emails which I don't like. Another draw back it is, you might end up getting odd functionlities with the windows (Could be cuz it still needs more development?)
• Performance is a biggy for slow machines
• Need Macromedia Flash installed
  

Interesting Modules (That I found of use)
Weather : Its good enough :D
Desktop and (mini) : (which help set your mind straight, who needs many RSS feeds and gadgets?)
Stocks : Nice animation
FlickPhotos : Changes regularly like a slide show !
Games : For time wasting :P

Protopage
WOW I thought, its based views around Linux Desktop with the ability to add as many desktops as you like! (I Think? don't qoute me on that)

positives :

• Features are another wow such as 'Changing the appearance of windows' but lacks transparency features that Goowy has.
• Web Page module is by far handy as you view other "Web Desktops"!
• Share Desktops! Very impressive
  

Negatives :

• The bookmarks could do with a little work as it doesn't provide the ability to use "tags".
• You cannot change the name of your pages
• You may accidently share some information
• Works best in FireFox (Not sure if this is negative or positive)
  

Interesting Modules (That I found of use)
WebPage : By far the most handy :D
boomarks : Lacks "tags" though

Conclusion
You'd think after seeing movies with computer GUI move clips being setup for different views, may likely has come to a reality? (Not quite, you cannot compile in these web desktops! hmmm) :P

I wish they hurry up finishing off, as it's hard to choose. I for one I am voting for protopage and Netvibes. The window systems may be of an anoyance sometimes but well worth trying it :D I ended up having an account at all the web desktops and in the end blended the two together with Protopage!

There is no advertisements yet so I will be most impressed if it stays like that! FireFox and Microsoft Internet Explorer I used to try them out (with the exception of Protopage which best works in Firefox).

I am speechless still and it has made browsing the internet most interesting and rewarding in someways as you end up getting a more faster pace of feeds from the news,photos, and blogs.

Microsoft Academic.live.com is looking promising for schools!

Lets hope Web 2.0 stays ad free! And notes is great to quickly store your thoughts on things!

You don't have to worry about your harddrives anymore as big corporations will hold them and look through them (Hope they don't go over board on that note)
"Welcome to the world of TOMORROW!!!!"