The web is getting really cluttered, messy and difficult to use properly and the very out of date method of going to websites is crap. Lots of sites have tried to help with this, bookmarking stuff and various other ideas but what we really need is myweb whereby the experience is designed around what I want to see. For example, on most days the whether is not really that important to me, I will generally walk to work in the snow if required as I really can’t be starting my car/bike to travel 1.1 miles and claim to love the environment at the same time. But, I dabble in racing cars occasionally and the weather at race meetings makes a world of difference so in the 2-5 days before I race I watch the weather diligently. Saturday and Sunday look really nice at Donington with 19-20 degrees and mainly cloudy - perfect. But every time I need to know this I have to go looking and in an ideal world I would get told this, automatically, on the run-up to race days.
So, the answer could be to build composite pages, composites of the information I need and when I need it. It would usefully have a Google search box as well as a Wiki box and would also show me the last few posts that Seth Godin has made and probably show me my eBay watch list. Wouldn’t that be great and even better if it highlighted what has changed.
Years ago I worked in the City of London for a company that produced composite pages, they were composites of different news and financial feeds (Reuters, Telerate, Bloomberg etc…) and showed the information that dealers needed on a single screen. In 1987 it was radical, brilliant and un-licenseable due to protectionism by the traditional video feed suppliers but it certainly was a giant step forward.