I was pleasantly surprised that my post The Future of Personalized Start Pages get Dugg last week. Looking through the comments, most of the Digg readers liked Netvibes or Google's

It's funny that I posted the PlentyOfFish.com post not long before the Scoble-leaving-Microsoft announcement predictably blanketed Techmeme. Because reading Robert's latest post about his decision made me think about the

Markus Frind is an interesting character, who has left some provocative comments on Read/WriteWeb before. He claims he's earning $10,000 per day from Google Adsense from his dating website, plentyoffish.com.

Google is for the first time promoting its Personalized Homepage on the google.com homepage, using football World Cup modules/widgets. There is a "New! Add World Cup live scores and schedules

This post was largely written by Ryan Stewart, a guest blogger on Read/WriteWeb. I've added my own Best of Breed picks for each category. Feed readers can be divided up

Sun Microsystems is a company that doesn't get anywhere near as much attention in the techmeme world as Google, Yahoo or Microsoft. Which is kind of odd for a company

Mike Arrington's a bit peeved at Google. His post is a good vent, but to me the key bit was way down in comment number 33: "...my main gripe is

Tim Bray doesn't like Web metaphors: "The Web isn’t a platform or a database or an API or an OS a cloud or a clickstream or any other of those

Interesting moves in the online video market as YouTube announced "a major upgrade of its Web site" last Friday, just a day after Yahoo announced its own video upgrade. Both

Personalized Start Pages is a growing, but fiercely competitive, market. So what are they? Predominantly they're homepages for Web information, gadgets and widgets. The difference from old-style web portals are: