Start Pages Get A New Contender With My Yahoo 2.0
I use Google for many of my online services, but obviously Google isn’t the only option out there and in one service there are some big contenders - Start Pages. A Start Page or Home Page is the site that load when you first launch your browser. Some people use simple ones like the basic Google search page or their favorite website, but there are actually pages designed to act as your Start Page and give you a launching point for the rest of the web.
Two of the most popular are iGoogle and Netvibes. They offer modules and widgets to display multiple sources of information all in one custom organized location. So you can open your browser and see news feeds from your favorite sites, a calendar and your email, upcoming movies, weather, your Remember The Milk to-do list, etc.
Now Yahoo has joined in with their full release of My Yahoo 2.0. Ars Technica has a rundown of some of the new features, but one of the biggest is their use of the OpenSocial platform which will allow sharing of information between Yahoo and some of the other popular social sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
Each of the different services have their pros and cons so I recommend giving them all a try to see what suits you best. My personal favorite is Netvibes, but iGoogle and My Yahoo are more popular. Lifehacker has an interesting Start Page Hive Five that can also provide you with some more information about Start Pages.
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