I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I would like to recommend to you a free tool called Protopage, which allows you to create your own personal Internet landing/home page using mashups of widgets. Think of it as similar to Google Chrome. Protopage has the added feature of multiple tabs of mashups though.

 

mashup = “A Web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services.” (Wikipedia)

widget = “In computing a web widget is a software widget for the web.” (Wikipedia)

 

You can add widgets such as web links, clocks, bookmarks, maps, etc. There are thousands of sources for widgets and you can personalize colours and themes. I think this is a great tool for those of us who like to access information all in one place.