iGoogle

The iGoogle page is very cool! You can customize your own google page, and even add some cool gadgets!! Some of the gadgets I added were the yo momma joke of the day, and the birthday countdown.  The iGoogle homepage has hundreds of backgrounds to choose from, which is pretty cool.  You could be stuck on iGoogle for hours because it's so much fun!

Histats

Histats is a very cool website because you can go onto it and pick out a counter, which is a gadget that tracks your visitors.  You can add this gadget to your blog, I added mine to the bottom of my blog page.  So every time I get on and scroll down, I can click on the counter and it will take me to the histats website.  Then from there, you can see where the people that visited your blog are from.

Blogger Gadgets

Yesterday we looked around at some of the Blogger Gadgets that you could use for your blog.  Some of them were very cool and useful, such as the birthday countdown, which counts down how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds until your birthday.  There are also ones that are just for fun, such as the fish one where you can pick up to 10 fish and change their colors and the color of their food.  And your friends or family could get on Blogger and go onto your blog and feed your fish!! Almost all of these gadgets are very cool to use!!!

Stats

Our class added a new gadget called stats.  This is very cool because you can see who and when people looked at your blog that day, that month, and how many looked at it of all time.  It is very detailed and you can see what internet browser they used.  Such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and more.  You can see the name of who visited your blog and even the country from where they viewed it.  I even had 1 person from the Netherlands that viewed my blog! I thought that is pretty cool.

Word Cloud

Word Cloud is a very fun tool to create that you can use to make different collages in different shapes, colors, forms, etc.  You can use this website just for personal things, or you can use them for education/fun things as well.  You will be hooked on this website once you get on.

Here are some links to where you can create word clouds

Wordle
Tagul
Image Chef
Tagxedo

Image chef

The Image chef is just the same as wordle, but with image chef you can customize more things.  But with wordle you have a bigger variety of fonts, colors, etc. to choose from.  But they are both very fun websites to create a word collage or customize football jerseys.

Symbaloo

Symbaloo is another social bookmarking website but I think this one is cooler than the other because it is better designed and you can put your favorite websites right there in front of you.  It is very easy to get onto the website that you want to, and like other social bookmarking websites, your bookmarks are very easy to find.