Personalized start pages

My new topic for discussion is personalized start pages. A personalized start page is a web page you may personalize so that many of the sites and tools that you use daily are available at your fingertips. So, for example, you launch Explorer and your Yahoo start page appears. It is dark and light pink, your favorite colors, has an icon displaying your local weather and an RSS feed for your favorite news broadcast. It might show the time in analog and digital, have a link to your Flickr photos, and allow you to create “to do lists.” Actually, I’m not sure if the Yahoo start page will allow you to do all of this. In my upcoming blogs I’m going to explore start pages. I will be trying out and reporting on Yahoo and Google, plus two smaller start pages, Pageflakes and Netvibe. About three years ago I had a Yahoo start page but quickly forgot the password and didn’t find the service valuable enough to bother with. I wonder if my experience this time around will be better. A quick look tells me that start pages have more to offer these days.