Google has an upcoming Personalized Start Page for Enterprise, according to some\nsleuthing done by Garrett Rogers and\nScott Smith at Google Blogoscoped. Here's an example Dell start page and the official\nhelp page.

The Personalized Start Page will be one of the options available in the beta Apps For Your Domain service. Currently email, IM,\ncalendar and website creator is included in the package. In the Google Blogoscoped forum, there's further\nspeculation about Writely integration and the ability to add\nAdsense to it.

I think Google sees Personalized Start Page for Enterprise as a kind of 'instant\nIntranet' option for small-medium businesses. While the example above is from Dell, it's\nunlikely a big corporation would ditch their (often hugely expensive) custom-made\nIntranet. It could also be used as a customer-facing website, which the Dell example seems\nto be. But I don't think that's all that appealing from a branding point of view.

You'll note that the Dell page includes some special Dell gadgets (see image below).\nThis is where it starts to get interesting, as we morph into a world of componentized web\napps. That kind of functionality would be very useful on a company Intranet.