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Re: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

T Bruns — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:43:54 -0000

My Yahoo home page has to much advertising, and when you click on a story your forced to listen to a commercial.

I'm glad I switched.

Re: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

john1983 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:32:16 -0000

my homepage is http://www.rcnsearch.com/

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franjeanes — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:44:45 -0000

Schemdley, haven't I seen you on my Mac? ;) Love it - now my PC looks prettier.

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Suz — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:23:32 -0000

I absolutely love dronggo.com It's easy to use and not cluttered like some other sites. Check it out - I'm glad I found it!

Re: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

steve — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:56:23 -0000

You should check out the new Dronggo.com Great set up for a homepage. Cool cover flow, chat feature, all the widgets you need or want. Its been up a day and i think its better than any of those other sites out there.

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Alexi — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:06:50 -0000

Should include Shiny Search (ShinySearch.com). Its like a mini version of igoogle themes but better looking!

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Vin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:11:50 -0000

This is really a good site comparing start page sites.
There are a few products like the Openwave's Richmail(TM) 3.0 or the upcoming Dashboard(TM) that provide, in addition to these kind of widgets, a comprehensive messaging and communication solution on a single page.
I would be grateful if someone has studied its features with the start page providers like iGoogle et al? I was wondering how Dashboard's features would appeal users as the solution comes to consumers only through broadband/mobile service providers.

Re: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

Chirley — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:38:08 -0000

I see another thing that isn't reviewed...which has bothered my since switching to Netvibes after reading this article. I have used MSN for years...pretty happy with it but now they changed it AGAIN and I have had it. My MSN always loaded very quickly...and Netvibes just takes too long! I am going to try Google...tried it a few years ago but too many bugs. Any of you out there found one that also loads fast? My homepage is VERY simple....weather...calculator...major news...calendar...link to hotmail...just easy stuff like that. I want one that isn't complicated and doesn't take forever to load!!

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spilltojill — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:35:59 -0000

Love this collection:)

I use http://www.awesomestart.com

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jo54 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:29:53 -0000

very nice job !
so less powered than your examples, but a litle bit more funny and graphic is http://www.gecogle.com.

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Elle — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:02:22 -0000

Have you done a follow-up to this with current startpages? Are all the pages listed here still major competitors?

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David — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:36:16 -0000

Great post, will check the mentioned sites !!

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Aniruddh D — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:07:33 -0000

Try www.pageonce.com the best start up page ever I see, Its also give u the freedom to add ur bank accounts and credit card accounts in the start up page..we can also add our utility bill accounts in it. nice service...

Re: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

Tim — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:48:59 -0000

I know this (very useful) posting is somewhat stale, but do you know which of these, if any, are free of advertising?

Thanks,

Tim

Re: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

Suya — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:19:05 -0000

What do you think about Ginger (the new netvibes)?

I found another start page website's list. Check this out : http://www.oonania.com/weba...

Re: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

odysensupport — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:51:40 -0000

Another start page website to consider is Odysen, http://www.odysen.com. Includes widgets, multiple pages that you can easily share with others, and social networking features.

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kÃƒÂ¶prÃƒÂ¼ dizisi — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:18:41 -0000

I am now a diehard Netvibes user.
I pray nothing like this ever happens to Netvibes.

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habam — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:47:35 -0000

well, the approaches described here are quite cool but there exist systems which seem to be even more sophisticated. http://www.oos.cc for example offers a full grown web based desktop including word processing, mailing, personal webpage and photoalbum.

Greetz,
Jimmy

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hugo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:09:34 -0000

and I found another cool webtop at web-windows.de

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Heather Pam — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:38:10 -0000

You can try www.homepageforme.com. I like its RSS and customized links features. Just simple and practical.

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sarah — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:04:12 -0000

Thanks for this list. Really cool. Like another guy here I am using itsmynews.com. I like the fact that they have a big database of content and a very simple navigation.

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Mike — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:47:20 -0000

Hey I found another cool new StartPage called Wirei.com
http://www.WireI.com

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mark — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:46:04 -0000

ClutterMe.com is in the running as well.

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mark meeus — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:24:33 -0000

I tested almost all of them for a few days. They are handy, but I can't use them as my browsers startpage. Most of the time I open my browser I want to visit some other site. All of these sites load slow (compared to about:blank) and it bothers me. Now I use http://go.nzal.es, it's fast and allows me to go to wherever I want with only 4 keystrokes.

Re: 14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

Brian — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:30:33 -0000

There's a very important feature missing from the comparison. Ability to make public page/tab and have direct URL to see that page/tab.

Pageflakes and Protopage both have this feature. But others including Netvibes don't. Isn't this a really useful feature? Did you use Netvibes's feature set as base for comparison and skipped other startpage's unique features?