Yuga muses on the proliferation of startpages, online bookmarks and news aggregators, looking into several “vying for the title of the ‘Start Page of the Year’”:
- Start.com – Microsoft’s laid-back effort at Web 2.0
- Live.com – looking spiffy from a recent revamp but much better than Start.com (and why does MS have two of these?)
- Google Homepage – Google’s attempt to look like Yahoo back in 1995,wanting more pageviews perhaps just to get back at MySpace?
- Protopage – full-featured but too cluttered, a little ugly on the design and not very good on usability. Supports multiple pages though.
- My Yahoo! – reminds me a lot of Geocities
- Pageflakes – newest baby in town but more promising but always offline half the time.
- Netvibes – very neat and simple yet packs a lot of features; my bet for the Start Page of the Year.
Yes, there are a lot more out there. But it was an altogether different ballgame eight years or so ago. Check out what was live.com–now Windows Live–circa 1998 (from Pinoy.tech.blog):
Now you know why CSS was invented.
Good original content in this FG post…
Anyways, I disagree with the original bloggers’ contention toward Protopage. A little customization goes a long way. (cf. my protopage at protopage.com/tolliewilliams) Further, I also have a private page that shows me my three email inboxes, the local weather, and links to my online banking sites.
Once I took the time to set up protopage to siphon in the same content that I had on my google.com/ig, protopage became my homepage of choice.
I use Google home page, and did try start.com, but found them to have things that I did not like.
I will be making my own start page on my web space with php. That way, I will have ultimate customisability.
I wonder how much it cost to buy live.com and start.com :)
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