Hi, For the past 6 or 7 years (http://web.archive.org/web/20030711135006/dailysnooze.com/en/) I have run http://www.dailysnooze.com - mainly because I wanted a quick loading simple homepage for my browser, which included the BBC headlines and weather. Long gone are the days of screen scraping the bbc news pages and now luckily we have access to some nice feeds!
Things have moved on a little and we now have a few extras based on backstage feeds: - dailysnooze.com browser homepage (BBC News and Weather) - BBC News Vista Sidebar Gadget (http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=653824e2-e96c-454e-b11e-ab873c8f393f&bt=1&pl=1) - BBC Weather Vista Sidebar Gadget (http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=5bba4a66-6982-4f37-ab97-7b83eba93a19&bt=1&pl=1) I only just released the gadgets so thought I should share them a bit further. They are also available from the website itself. For the homepage the brief I have always stuck to is "quick loading and simple", and I like to think I have a good balance in my slightly biased opinion. >From the tech side of things the gadgets/homepage get their data from my hosted DB and associated web services. I have an app running at home which updates the server DB regularly with the feed information. Hope one or two of you find these useful :-) Let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback - would love to release gadget updates with user feedback tweaks! Cheers Fraser homepage: http://www.dailysnooze.com bbc vista gadgets: http://www.dailysnooze.com/vista-gadgets.aspx - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
