Page Flakes tour

Page flakes is a really dynamic site and it can be used in a variety of ways to do different things. I have created a pagecast of my pageflakes so that you guys can check it out and get an idea of how I use the site. Page flakes helps me keep track of several rss feeds, bookmarks, sources by putting condensed versions of them all on one page along with search tools. I know it sounds jumbled, and when you bring up my pageflakes you will definitley feel overwhelmed at first glance. Stick with it though, after a minute or two you will see how simple pageflakes really is and why it is an effective tool.

You can build your pageflakes using different layouts and themes. I have my pageflakes formated such that there are three columns to organize all my flakes(flakes are minature windows on the page, each element on the page is presented as a flake whether its and RSS feed or a web page). In the left column are all the RSS feeds I subscribe to, like the freakanomics blog, the huffington post, and the jobmonkey.com blog. In the middle column I have a flake for my bookmarks page on Delicious and another flake for my social bookmarking soulmate Steve23101's bookmarks. Below Steve23101's bookmark flake, I have a citeline flake that keeps track of all the sources I am using for an upcoming research paper. In the right column I have my search tools, a universal blog search flake, a universal news search flake, and a google search flake.

Total there are 16 flakes on my page, and by going to my pageflakes I am able to see all these rss feeds and tools at once, easily moving from flake to flake without the hassle of opening 16 seperate tabs in my browser.