A great idea.

This is a cool idea.

I'd be interest in seeing which services people would like best.

For example - which would be prefer? Netvibes? Google homepages? Pageflakes? A facebook app?

Kind Regards,

J

Personally, I would prefer

Personally, I would prefer igoogle (because thats what I use). The other sites you mentioned (though I've never really used them) seem like the same thing as igoogle and I would imagine the apps would be similar to build or at least do very similar things.
I'm not sure how a facebook app would work as I was thinking about this more along the lines of personal use / ease of use and less about advertising. Facebook apps are generally useless other than to advertise something about yourself or some other form of poking. And I'm not sure how comfortable most college students would be with displaying their weight and goals for the whole school to see.

Another vote for iGoogle

I mostly use Google Services (GMail, Calendar, etc),. It would be a great help to have it integrated into the front page, especially if we are able to update directly from there.

Let's spec it out!

What sort of features would you like to see in iGoogle?

- Ability to report your weight (or other measurements) from iGoogle directly.
- Ability to post a rapid blog post (i.e. if you are recording a meal or something, you can blog it directly into iGoogle and it will appear on Gimme20.com)
- Ability to view your weight graph in iGoogle...?

Just throwing ideas out there people. I like it though -- let's build on this.

Kind regards,

J

Any ideas?

Still waiting on your feedback on this one. I'm pretty excited about it actually...

Kind Regards,

J

:: Yes - Ability to report

:: Yes - Ability to report your weight (or other measurements) from iGoogle directly.
:: maybe - Ability to post a rapid blog post (i.e. if you are recording a meal or something, you can blog it directly into iGoogle and it will appear on Gimme20.com) might be easier just to use a link that sends to the compose page
:: Yes - Ability to view your weight graph in iGoogle though I think it would be best if you could pick which one displayed when it loaded up.
:: Also, a log in screen is needed too.
:: Maybe a link to submit a new workout?

To throw some ideas from a

To throw some ideas from a UI perspective, you could have tabs for each section.

Tabs for

Current Status (weight, number of stars, etc)
Upcoming Workouts (calendar view with pop up information for the day)
Blog Postings
Measurment Entry (weight, custom fields)

So here is what I'm seeing then

I'm seeing the following.

- When you first add the igoogle widget, you'll be prompted for your g2 login and password. After which, that will be saved by google on their servers (is this a privacy problem?)

- Once you add the widget, the following tabs will appear:

1) Portal/current Status tab (default), which, per ajmiarka - will contain your current weight, your gimme20.com username (which will link to your g2 homepage), your number of g2 stars, and your gimme20.com user picture. Would we like to see a small weight graph here as well?

I also see this including a list of your next 2-3 upcoming workouts as opposed to it having a whole tab.

2) Blog postings tab - Are you talking about blog posts from the community, or just a view of your own blog posts (and the ability to add one rapidly).

3) Measurement tab - Ability to add measurements (i.e. weight, or whatever else you are measuring).

Sound good? If it does, then I'll get cracking.

J

Thats a great idea about the

Thats a great idea about the next few workouts. Overall it sounds great. As far as privacy, rememberthemilk does the same thing and im sure a ton of other igoogle apps do it, so I don't see that most ppl would have a problem with it. I look forward to seeing the final product =)