Start Pages

There's a great article from the Information Overlord, Scott Vine on start pages. His current favourite is Netvibes, which is the page of choice for many others. I've played around with it as well, but the thing that I didn't like about it was that it didn't seem to allow me to create other pages linked together. (It may have this facility, suffice to say I couldn't find it, which means it's too well hidden!)

Scott also links to and discusses:
Windows Live
Google IG
Goowy
Protopage
Pageflakes
Favoor
Eskobo

and has screen shots of them all. If you're thinking of getting a start page, this is certainly an article worth reading. My favourite is still Pageflakes, and I've been using it constantly on all my machines since I wrote about it the other day. I've got several pages there - my work page, a leisure page, a 'reading' page, with links to various RSS feeds, and a 'search' page with a dozen or so canned searches that run automatically for me. I'm already at the stage of thinking 'how did I manage without one'. Definately something to explore if you have a spare 5 or 10 minutes.

Comments

[Scott]

Phil, I agree with you that the lack of ability to add pages is a black mark against Netvibes. Indeed I may amend my piece to reflect that! That said the box.net web storage widget works a treat and lets you open your saved docs from Netvibes.