Innovation CHEF

Finally getting around to doing some tidying on the blog. The RSS feed works fine but the blog feed button has been a little screwy.

http://innovationchef.com/feed is working though.

I am a very happy user of the igoogle page and have loads of alerts and gadgets so I made a very simple InnovationChef gadget.

The purpose of this tool is to make it so people can access the blog quickly and easily and be aware of my updates. What is igoogle? Google lets you create a personalized and themed homepage that still has a Google search box nice and clear at the top. Below that are your choice of any number of gadgets. These Gadgets come in lots of different shapes, sizes and forms and they provide access to  information, feeds, games and content from all across the web.

Here is my Gadget

Try it out!

Want to make your own? It is very easy and will only take you a few minutes.

1. First open the igoogle page here  this opens a new window.
2. Choose what kind of feed you have.
3. What size of google button you want
4. Enter the feed URL
5. Press Generate HTML and there you go!

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Having spent a bit of time with Google Wave this week I confess I haven’t been fully won over. In small collaborations and in co-creations of documents it comes across as a live Wiki style chat. It is fun but it is not at the stage where I would be rushing to check my incoming waves in the same way I track my email or Twitter feed. There is a genuinely different feel with Wave and a certain frisson that comes with learning. I’ll be sticking with it though.

New kid on the block is Raindrop from Mozilla, makers of my browser of choice FireFox. Billed as Open Messaging for the Open Web Raindrop is about pulling in conversations that you care about. You cannot yet download it but there is already plenty of buzz.

Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser (Firefox, Safari or Chrome).

Sounds cool right. It is also Open Source so if it catches on expect loads of addons to make life better. Watch this space.