Is it Yahoo? Is it Google? Is it some kind of funky voodoo-black-magic? No, it's FunkyHomepage.com! Today's the day that FunkyHomepage.com is officially launched. I can see it now being recorded in the annals of time, along with the first man on the moon, the fall of the Berlin wall, the first flight across the atlantic and the discovery of penicillin! Well, perhaps not! But at least it should provide some people with a much-needed relief from the bog-standard homepages of Google or Yahoo!
Funky Homepage is broadcast directly to your computer monitor from our underground fortress on Rigel-3, where our slave-pixies have been working hard to design the perfect personalised homepage (or start page) for the whole of mankind. And here it is, in all its funky glory! We won't turn this blog into a sales pitch for the site - we'll leave that up to our Why we so funky page (which contains subliminal messaging and hypnotic font styles to entice the easily suggestible). But we do want to highlight some of the reasons why we think Funky Homepage should be your homepage...
- It has lots of fresh daily updated content, including
- your choice of news feeds, organised by news category, automatically updated every hour,
- your choice of 5 weather updates, updated hourly, so you can keep in touch with the weather in 5 different locations,
- your choice of daily comic strips,
- Today in History
- daily Bushisms (lots of unbelievable quotes from Dubbya himself), as well as other daily quotes and jokes, and
- regularly updated video feeds, featuring the latest and funniest from YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more
- It has lots of useful tools, including
- interactive calendars, including a Google Calendar viewer for up to 5 different calendars,
- maps, currency converters, unit converters, messaging tools and lots of useful office tools for you to use,
- It has its fair share of fun stuff to relieve your lunch-hour boredom, including
- lots of games, playable directly from our site,
- Lots of video feeds, and a Google YouTube video search box, enabling you to play videos directly from our site, as well as
- Puzzles, jokes, comics and more.
- It also has a geo-targeted store search box, enabling you to search the most popular high street stores in your country directly from your homepage, and also it has a (soon-to-be geo-targeted) Popular Sites menu down the left-hand-side, enabling you to access the best of the web in all sorts of categories, from music and movie downloads to photo sharing and printing, and lots more besides.
So if you think you might be funky enough, hit the button marked "Make This your Homepage" on our Start page and follow the simple on-screen instructions to make Funky Homepage your homepage.
Funky Homepage is currently in its beta stage, so all feedback and bug reports are welcome - please use the Feedback/Contact Us link at the bottom of each page to report any bugs and to get in touch with us. We already have an extensive To Do list for ways in which Funky Homepage can and will be improved in the future - check out this blog for any updates - all updates to Funky Homepage will be announced here - but for now, what you see is what you get. So stop reading this blog and start exploring all the feeds and gadgets on offer!
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