To access quickly to these websites I bookmarked them in my browser and every time I need them, I click on my bookmarks, load the whole pages, check for updates or enter my search request, and leave. I got used to it and I used to follow this pattern more than ten times a day. But thinking about it, it would be much more useful to get all these six websites gathered in one page. Actually, I am not interested in the whole pages but just part of it. For Facebook, I am just checking notifications, for CNN just checking the top stories, for Perez Hilton and Jean-Marc Morandini websites the latest fancy news, for Google and Wordreference I just use the search bars. So if I could gather all these information on my browser homepage for instance, that would make my life simplier: everytime I start my browser I could directly look at the information I need the most.

A few months ago, a friend told me that there were services that purpose is precisely to personalise my homepage with my favourite information or web services. I tried one of them and was positively surprised that it was almost what I was looking for. The service was perfect for my use of Facebook and Google because there were dedicated modules to these services (I learnt that those are called widgets). For CNN I found a module with the latest news, which is also exactly what I was looking for. However, for Perez Hilton, Jean-Marc Morandini’s blog and Wordreference I did not found what I was looking for. For Perez Hilton, the module was displaying only the latest posts whereas I was mostly interested by the video or the picture that is enclosed in each post. For Jean-Marc Morandini and Wordreference, I did not find any module. I still need to open ‘manually’ three of my six favourite websites !