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What's Your Browser Start Page?
prostoalex asks: "I was just reading an Associated Press story on the most popular Web destinations, where it's noted how the companies are vying for user's attention to become an access point to the Internet. Slashdot's readership is probably not the one to stick to the start page provided by their ISP or their browser manufacturer. What's your browsers start page? A third-party site like Google or Yahoo!? A customized page like My Yahoo! or My MSN? Personal Web site or local HTML file with your favorite bookmarks? about:blank?"
I use firefox, you insensitive clod. I have as many start pages as I like! I actually use only two: drpa.us and peter-a-andrews.com/links.html, both of which are my personal pages.
Duh. Actually, for a while it was the New York Times. Then Geek.com. For the last few years, it's been Slashdot.
So now I have it to my own home page, on a server in my closet -- it links to the webcomics I read and forums I frequent, so it's basically a glorified bookmarks set.
Galeon opens in 9 workspaces, with seven tabs per workspace. (give or take a tab in a couple of them.)
News workpsace has MyYahoo, Slashdot, Linux Today, Google News, Cnn.com, CnetNews, and a local newspaper.
Four workspaces are for some "social" site or another. One workspace has a whole bunch of blank tabs that I can google directly into as needed, a couple of "My Portal" tabs built by Galeon, mostly for those once or twice a week or month sites.
That's just at home. Since it's linux, I don't need to reboot it often, so I don't worry too much about "launch" time.
At work, where I do worry a bit more about launch time, I have a custom page of work and personal relavent links that I update from time to time.
-Rusty
You never know...
Had the same site till recently I read in one of the newsletters I receive about Yahoo having a similar website that updates from 75 000 news sources instead of 4500 !!
Have you checked Yahoo News ?
GN is good, but does it let you program personal searches every time you visit? does it learn the subject you're more interested in and suggest new articles on the front page every day? does it let you add to its news feeds directly? give you personal XML and PDA feeds to take home? let you share your favorite stories with friends (automatically)? No, not yet anyway... until then there is memigo [end of shameless plug]
Type your query into the box, then hit the tab key twice to get to the "Search the Web" button.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
http://my.myway.com/
Basically a portal like yahoo, but more customizable. And their whole purpose is to run a site with no ads and no popups so that's a nice bonus.