Our current poll asks which 'personalized homepage' do you use? After a false start, the current results are very interesting. Google Personalized Homepage is most popular with 31%, followed by two of the innovative startups - Pageflakes 21% and Netvibes 20%. Interesting that two of the bigcos are lagging - My Yahoo 6% and Live.com with a paltry 2%. Yourminis actually has slightly more votes right now than Live.com.
It's not too late to add your vote...final results will be tallied up tomorrow.
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I'm really surprised Protopage is not on your list.
I've been using Protopage.com as my personalized homepage for the last year and a half and I love it. For some reason Protopage just doesn't get the attention it should, and perhaps part of the reason for this is that it's based in Europe and not in the USA ?
Posted by: Churm | March 22, 2007 10:48 PM
I voted for 'other'. I actually use Gmail as my homepage with a bunch of Greasemonkey scripts and FF extensions that let me integrate it with GReader and GCal and whatever is left out is generally handled by Imified.
Posted by: Basu | March 22, 2007 11:34 PM
Churm, Netvibes, Webwag and (until recently) Pageflakes are also based in Europe. I just couldn't include everyone :)
Posted by: Richard MacManus | March 23, 2007 12:35 AM
I voted 'other' because I use Google Reader for the feeds which is the vast majority of what I used a 'homepage' for. The rest appear as tabs (Gmail, Google Docs, my blog etc etc) or as Firefox add-ons (del.icio.us).
If I want the weather, time, search then I pop open a tab specific to that and away I go.
(actuallly, weather I look out the window and time I look at my watch)
I used to use Netvibes but I found it's RSS reader wasn't as good as Google's reader (I understand it's been upgraded since) and, as I've said, I discovered I was using my homepage as an RSS bucket.
Posted by: Mike Riversdale | March 23, 2007 2:15 AM
Netvibes is nice, just can't get used to Google. Plus the 0.5 seconds it takes to transition between tabs is just tooo much.
;-)
Posted by: Ali | March 23, 2007 2:35 AM
I'm in love with Netvibes. The only reason I've never written a big roundup of these services was my personal bias towards Netvibes, which is the first site I open every day. Pageflakes and Yourminis are great products, too, but Netvibes always seemed to be one step ahead.
BTW, another one of my favorites is Daily Rotation, which focuses only on RSS feeds, but it's way faster than any competitor.
Posted by: Stan Schroeder | March 23, 2007 3:06 AM
I love pageflakes as from my point of view it is much better than the other start pages with its various advanced features (like share pages, flake export system etc).Specially for the flake export facility , Using this feature any one can easily export various module into his personal website and enrich the look and feel. And they are continuously releasing newer and newer features.
Posted by: awnik | March 23, 2007 4:30 AM
I love pageflakes as from my point of view it is much better than the other start pages with its various advanced features (like share pages, flake export system etc).Specially for the flake export facility , Using this feature any one can easily export various module into his personal website and enrich the look and feel. And they are continuously releasing newer and newer features.
Posted by: awnik | March 23, 2007 4:31 AM
There's nothing better than PageFlakes. I enourage everyone who voted for the others to give pageflakes a try. You won't be disappointed.
Posted by: David | March 23, 2007 7:59 AM
Was an avid fan of Netvibes. But I must say Pageflakes convinced me to switch. Very stable product.
Posted by: Brad | March 23, 2007 9:11 AM
I wasn't really into the whole personalized webpage thing until I was pointed to Pageflakes. That's the one that really stuck with me and now I'm a junkie that has it set to my homepage.
Posted by: Chia | March 23, 2007 10:22 AM
Stumble across pageflakes from another friend. Has incorporated it into my daily routine, shared it with colleagues and friends. Good work by the PF team.
Posted by: chi howe | March 23, 2007 10:43 AM
pageflakes is awesome. it always leads the pack when it comes to new features and great flakes/modules.
Posted by: asif | March 23, 2007 11:08 AM
Pageflakes is the killer one, with its features and Cool look. Its simply the best.
Posted by: Mahmudul Hasan | March 23, 2007 11:16 AM
I'm all Netvibes after not being able to fall in love with Google. Netvibes was my rebound and I'm sticking with her.
Posted by: Aaron | March 23, 2007 12:18 PM
I love pageflakes. because this was the best (It got best award at Seomoz web2.0 awards) and still it is the best. Any doubt? Use the sharing and publishing feature of Pageflakes or use .net flake to create your own domain. You'll be happy to use this service. Otherwise, kill me.
Posted by: Monwara Rahman | March 23, 2007 1:02 PM
As a user from China, I vote for Pageflakes. I've tried both these services from time to time. The most important things for me are: speed, reliability, localization, number of widgets. Pageflakes is doing better on speed and localization. I would love to see more localized content and widget to be integrated into the Chinese version.
Posted by: Zhang Li | March 23, 2007 8:41 PM
FEED DEMON OR NET WIRE, enuf said ...
Posted by: John Doe | March 24, 2007 3:44 AM
Pageflakes is great.
Posted by: Muntasir Hasan | March 24, 2007 11:20 AM
My favorite webpage is pageflakes. It is excellent than the webpages for it's latest features.
Posted by: Khabir Ud Dulon | April 5, 2007 7:22 AM
I've been using pageflakes almost since it's inception, and it's a wonderful tool. It's so customizable, nothing gets left out!
Posted by: Witchy | April 14, 2007 3:03 PM