This week I had the brief pleasure of hosting Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky of Disaggregate Consulting in our offices. Dr. Yudkowsky always brings both brilliant ideas, and much laughter to the time I get to spend with him. Thank you Moshe!
In a follow up email to our meeting, Dr. Yudkowsky asked about the browser start page mentioned earlier in my posting on the Personal Productivity Suite of Tools I use, which he viewed while sitting with me. This is also topical considering the discussion going on over at Lifehacker, specifically their discussion of The Five Best Start Pages.
While I prefer not to share actual views of my start pages, as I keep personal information on it, I am happy to list the widgets/gadgets I use (appearing here in vertical order from top to bottom, and from first column on the left to third on the right.)
On my start/home tab:
Column 1
Remember the Milk - to do list
Jott - voice to text converter and reminder services
Instant (Chicago) Traffic
Column 2
Activity and Time Tracker - enter your projects, then just click the button to track time
Google Reader - rss reader preview
Wikipedia Search
LinkedIn Search
Track IP, ISP, Country, Proxy Server
Column 3
Google Calendar - with month overview, and daily list
Live Weather
Google Map Search - might be replaced due to my recent purchase of a GPS unit (FINALLY!!! - post on this to follow)
On My Finance Tab:
Column 1
Google Finance Portfolios - I keep three discrete portfolios in this first column
SmartMoney.com
Fool.com
WallStreetJournal.com
Column 2
Google Finance Market Summary - I love the visual indicator
Google Finance Top Movers
Live Forex Quotes
Live Gold
Live Silver
Interest Rates
CNN Money
Energy News Today
Bankrate.com
TheStreet.com
Yahoo Finance
Column 3
Commodities Market
Google Finance Sector Summary
Jodange Most Discussed S&P 500 Stocks
Macroaxis Portfolio - PHENOMENAL, when I used to be a professional trader we paid HUGE sums for this sort of analysis available for free (now…)
The Economic Times
Morningstar
Kiplinger Personal Finance
Marketwatch.com
On My News Tab
Column 1
Comscore
Strategy + Business
WSJ Page 1
Kellogg School of Management
The Economist - Finance
BBC News - World
Reuters
Time.com
New York Times
CNN
Column 2
MSNBC Breaking News
FT World
Haaretz
WSJ Most Popular
Freakonomics
Economist - Full Print Edition
BBC News - Front Page
Google News
Column 3
Alexa Movers and Shakers
MSNBC Headlines
FT - Financial
WSJ US Business
Foreign Policy
Economist Science and Technology
Economist News Analysis
Reuters Oddly Enough
Linked Intelligence
NPR News
KurzweilAI.net
