There are a host of start pages online which provide users with a lot of gadgets. When we started working on Remindo we decided on focusing on the working professional instead of trying to pander to all and sundry. The aim of the Remindo workpage is to get all the work-related information you need in one place.

The Remindo workpage helps you keep all the information you need organized in one place. Here are a few ways to start organizing your work-life through your workpage:

1. Add feeds and widgets: Once you sign-in to Remindo and land up on your workpage you see a list of feeds on your default page, which have been customized according to your location. You can add more feeds to your workpage by simply clicking the “Add stuff” link at the top of the page. This takes you to the default editor-managed directory containing a host of other feeds which you can add to your page by simply clicking on the link. If you do not find the feed you are looking for in the directory. You can add the RSS or atom feed you require through the “Add feed” pop-up by copy-pasting the URL of the feed in there.

Pretty soon with our gadgets API being launched, we will also update our directory with a select set of gadgets which will save users the trouble of separating the wheat from the chaff. Besides this you will also be able to add external widgets.

2. Access the address book: The sidebar on the workpage contains a link to the Address book. Anyone who has ever attended a conference is well-acquainted with the trouble of having to return with a stack of cards, which if left unorganized, are often misplaced. You can:

a. Add the card details through the “Add a contact” tab on in the address book and sort them as personal and business contacts.

b. Subsequently organize the contacts you add manually or import through the “Address requests” feature mentioned in the point below, through the “Manage groups” tab. The groups feature allows you to mail specific contacts or a selected group of your Remindo contacts.

3. Sending address requests: You can also send address requests to your professional and personal contacts through the “Send address request” link on the workpage, which takes you to the address book tab. You can send personalized invites to a select group of contacts or use the import contacts feature to import the e-mail IDs of your contacts and send group invites.

These are just a few of the features on our workpage. We will keep this blog constantly updated with any new feature that we keep adding to Remindo. Till then we’d like you to explore the site and keep us updated with your comments and suggestions regarding the current and upcoming features.

The great rate at which users are accepting widgets and applications is heartening. According to a report published by JupiterResearch in November 2007, from a familiarity level of less than 5% widget users online, the end of 2007 saw the numbers swell to 26% of users adopting and using widgets. The increased popularity of sites such as Facebook, GoogleIg and others have helped increase user awareness levels.

Scrabulous has become a constant fixture on most desktops in my bay. Working for an online media firm does have its own warped perks, discounting the caffeine-supported late nights and the frequently lost fights against time.

With sites like Plaxo and LinkedIn coming into the applications scene, we are seeking to find better ways to connect with the Remindo user, the 9 to 5-ers.

We are but one of those anyway, and it’s quite inconvenient, to put it very mildly, alt-tabbing your way between 15 different windows just to check your FedEx tracking number, stock rates, to-do lists, hunting for addresses to ship important little parcels to, playing the next move on Scrabulous, squeezing in a “Hello” to our respective loved ones or not so loved ones, etc… So yeah, that can get quite exasperating.

Currently, we’re busy collecting at least a few of the above in one location, viz., the address book, the messaging system, the latest news in politics, business, technology, sports, entertainment and offer the user editor-selected location-specific feeds.

This essentially means that I’m saved the hassle of looking for all the feeds related to Mumbai since the system does it for me. Special.

Am eagerly awaiting the first launch the Remindo API, which will be later this month, so that we can make the content richer and more useful for the user with them being able to add richer work-related gadgets from the Remindo directory.