Erstellt am: 3. 12. 2013 - 09:19 Uhr

Today's Webtip: Start Pages

a few alternatives to iGoogle for those who like having a place for all of their online stuff.

iGoogle was killed. The death of Google's homepage offering didn't garner quite as much attention as Google Reader did, but it was still a pain for fans of a neatly organized wall of information.

The idea of a personal homepage goes back to the very early days of the web. It was a way to have quick and easy access to all of the sites you visited regularly. Something the success of Google made obsolete for many people. But internet types are a creative bunch, and home pages just evolved to take advantage of newer technologies and user behavior, morphing into one stop shops for easy access to live information.

They soon became places for people to gett access to live updates of their favorite pages, a rundown of their daily calender, weather updates and stock prices. The basics could be expanded with widgets that did all sorts of things, including access to your email.

Chrome

iChrome is a Chrome extension that lets you set up a google tab to give you links to your most frequently visited sites, weather, news, traffic and a Wolfram Alpha search box.

Yahoo has been a start point for ages, but it's start site offering used to be a super busy eyesore. They have since applied a bit more design sensibility to MyYahoo and it's getting closer to the excellence of their weather app.

Netvibes has been around for ages. It was more of an RSS reader than a widget filled start thing, but that seemed to have changed over the years and now has more widgets than any of the other alternatives while giving you the added bonus of embedding other pages directly.

And finally, for those who really dislike the waste of space at the top of their pages and can find their way around imapmsettings, protopage.com offers a clean alternative to the others.