Desparately seeking...

[triskellian]

Some months ago, I found myself experimenting with a site that simulates a desktop, with lots of little boxes each of which can contain various different kinds of content - RSS feeds, search engines, pictures, notes, all sorts. I even created an account, and I'm sure I emailed the link to someone, but I can't find it, or remember the name of the site, or, in fact, find anything that suggests I didn't imagine it.

It was probably quite like www.pageflakes.com, but definitely wasn't that, because that site is on an annoying perpetual refresh loop in my browser of choice (old skool mozilla). What I mostly want is a non-LJ feed aggregator, and I dimly recall that this mythical site did that.

Anyway, my questions are two:
1. Do you know which site I'm talking about?
2. Can you recommend another online feed aggregator?

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the Google personalized homepage?

I know no more about it than the fact there's a iGoogle link and a sign in link at the top right of the Google page, and it's the first place I came across this sort of thing. (In fact, it's the only place, 'cos I don't go exploring for it. So I'm probably wrong!)

[sumbitch.livejournal.com]

i don't suppose Google Reader would do for you? it rox my sox. and the reader can be inserted as a widget into the iGoogle home page.

[a-llusive.livejournal.com]

I believe Milan uses wordpress for his blog and I seem to remember he had a feed aggregator on that somewhere: he is rather fussy about such things.
Maybe imagined it.

I'd like to recommend which seems to be free, but that's only because I like the name.

[uitlander]

I was thinking the same thing. I've been playing with it recently and it looks rather fun.

[adamsmithjr.livejournal.com]

There's a famous French company and an article about the site in Slate but I can't find it... Sorry!

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

One guy at work has everything running through his Google homepage and it's very impressive. Not sure how long it took him to get it exactly the way he wanted it but it's very nice...

[onyxblue1.livejournal.com]

While looking at something completely unrelated, I found Bloglines. Don't know if it's quite what you're wanting, though.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

2. YouOS is an online desktop, and it has a feed aggregator. Once you've created an account, go to "Stuff > YouPanel > Add/remove apps", and install YouFeeds.

Whether that app works the way you want a feed aggregator to work is another question, of course...

YouOS needs to use right click, so make sure you haven't forbidden Javascripts to "disable or replace context menus" in Firefox's advanced javascript settings.

[adamsmithjr.livejournal.com]

Netvibes! http://www.slate.com/id/2164666/ Finally got it...