Site: Flavors

by Matt on 10 February 2010

flavors.me A site that allows you, humble user, to quickly create your own webpage aggregating your content from around the web. #ep12

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Pros

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I’m a fan of this site. Basically because it is what I was trying to achieve with my own website before this thing came along. All you do is pick which of your accounts you want to plug in (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Linkedin etc etc) and it rather elegantly pulls in the feeds.

Then you simply style it up. It’s gloriously easy to do and the little floating Flash interface is rather lovely. There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to do it in less than five minutes. But then you take a look at the directory and see what other people have been up to and before you know it, a few hours of tweaking have gone past in the search for the ultimate composition. Ah well…

If you want to have a stab yourself, go to the site and use the invite code ‘heat’.

Cons

Greasy spoon

There is a slight irritation that bugs me as an ‘Original English’ speaker in having to use an American spelling in the URL but I think this is kind of cancelled out by being able to get in early and nab a short username for my account (score!).

And otherwise for a site calling itself Flavors, it’s ironic that it doesn’t seem to support Delicious. But I think there might be a way around that. In fact I’m just off to tweak some more and find out…

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