BBC goes iGoogle.. Personalized homepages become main stream!

With the modern wonders of RSS I’ve been syndicating the BBC's news feed and not actually visiting their site. The other day I logged on and noticed and significant overhaul. BBC's homepage now offers a completely customized experience. The page real estate is made up of customizable gadgets with feeds of tops news headlines and other information (weather etc) much like iGoogle or My MSN.

This approach now brings gadgets and personalization into the mainstream with the various types of users and different demographics that visit the BBC site everyday. It is a truly remarkable design, and one I encourage you to check out.

Create Gadgets another way to build web traffic!

I'm amazed at the number of Gadgets that are being created for Window Vista sidebar and personal portal sites like Igoogle.com. This seems like a no brainer way of driving more traffic to your website, by offering users a way to syndicate certain portions of your sites content.

For developers check out Codeproject who offer some great insight on how to develop them for Windows Vista, or Googles developer site.