Planetaki.com - Bring Your Favorite Websites Together

Give your bookmarks a rest and try checking just one place to find the latest updates from all your favorite websites - by creating your personal planet at Planetaki.com. A planet, similar to an RSS feed, is a tool for reading your favorite websites all in one place. Anyone who follows multiple websites might appreciate Planetaki.com, where you can add any website that frequently updates content, such as blogs, message boards, news sites, Flickr albums, Twitter accounts, etc. New content from all of your sites will appear on your planet, where you have the option to keep or email each item. You can email up to 10 items per day (capped to deter spam robots). Planetaki will save your content for one week, and yes, it works on the iPhone. You can further personalize your planet by choosing between three backgrounds or uploading an image to create your own backdrop.

Planetaki.com is free, but you do need to register in order to create your planet. When you do so, you create a personalized URL for your planet, and you can choose whether to make your planet public or private.

“A planet is a place where you can read all the websites you like in a single page. You decide whether your planet is public or private.”

This site is easy to use and registration is quick, painless, and free. For personal use, Planetaki.com would be helpful to anyone who checks lots of websites and would prefer to bring all that content to one place, and call it something nifty like “Planet John” while you’re at it. If you make your planet public, you could share it with friends or create a planet tailored to a club or group, a class, work project, etc.

Can you add someone’s profile from Facebook or MySpace (or a group page from one of those sites) to your planet? Or a friend’s MySpace blog? What really sets this program apart from so many other sites offering to aggregate your favorite web sites’ content in one place? Will users be deterred by the long lag when adding certain sites to your planet?