We're half way there...

So, thought I'd do a bit of a review. Which of the 23 Things have been useful and which do I think I will I keep up?

I was initially anti-iGoogle, not seeing the need for it and disliking it's clutter. But, having set it up so it just showed me things I'm really interested in, it's now proving invaluable and is my homepage both at work and at home. I've also embraced (because they work so well inside iGoogle) Google Reader for getting RSS feeds of blogs & podcasts and Google Bookmarks so I can access all my bookmarks wherever I go. If only there was a good Livejournal gadget!
I'm also a big fan of Flickr- being able to upload higher resolution versions of pictures is excellent, I've always hated Facebook for it's compression.

Picnik was fun, but I'd rather use Picture Publisher. Guess I may use it if I'm at a PC that doesn't have an image manipulation program? I didn't like Delicious for personal use- my bookmarks are for my personal reference, not for everyone else, and Google Bookmarks sits better in Google Reader. But still, I can see Delicious could be good for libraries to advertise online resources and so on.

So yes. Despite my initial cynicism and belief I'd already seen every Web 2.0 tool that mattered I've now become addicted to a whole bunch more. I'm not sure this is neccessarily a good thing, but oh well! There's another 6 weeks to go, and I dread to think what I'm going to get hooked on next...

Picnik

My first thought was that it's a very busy page, I don't like it! I'm sure you guys know by now that on the web I don't like clutter, I like my pages minimalist.

Anyway. Had a play with picnik. It's ok, and it's nice to have a free image manipulator like that, but I'll stick to my trusty old picture editor. I've been using Micrografx Picture Publisher for more than 10 years, and it still does everything I need and more.

I can see why people would like picnik, it's simple and free, but I'm just not a fan.

I do like the cute little animated cogwheels tho!

Google Reader Poll

In last week's poll, 5/5 votes for Google Reader were Yay - making it the most popular Web 2.0 feature yet in our 23 Polls.

This week's Flickr poll is now up. Can it beat Google Reader in popularity?