Comments on: Great Personalized Start Pages: 6 Alternatives To iGoogle

By: Maureen Clark

Maureen Clark — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:45:26 +0000

FYI – I do not live in the US – and whilst I do iook at some US news sits they are far from my primary source of news information. The world is a bigger place than the US.

I like Igoogle, and it works for me. I would want it to continue, or find a mirror replica of it.

By: yea right

yea right — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:45:35 +0000

Affect your productivity? Getting info from news sites? Attention maureen2c: Google is ONLY in the business of tracking everything you do, period. If you like that, I guess google is for you. News? All the posted news articles are heavily screened by news editors and the government (YES, the government) before they are released to the ISPs. You don’t get unbiased news reports at all. You get what the US government wants you to see.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:29:01 +0000

I’ve been trying out the free Netvibes for about a week or so. I tried a couple of others and was dissappointed. Anyway, So far I’m kinda liking it. I like that I could add
not only web based e-mails apps, but also the email provided by my ISP. It was a bit tricky to set up but all is good and it’s right in front of me. I also added the Google Calendar, a couple of news feeds (Yahoo and CNN) along with a mediocre weather app (which I’m still looking for a better one) There are 900 or so pages of themes or you can make your own. I can also access the page from any browser and make it my start page.
All in all I’m pretty happy. There is also alot of help for netvibes on the web along with a forum.
that my 2 cents

By: seb

seb — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:32:09 +0000

Not listed here, but I like the simplicity and multi-device support (iPhone, iPad) of Iguzu. Check it out at http://www.iguzu.com

By: Marc Aguilar

Marc Aguilar — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:17:39 +0000

I would prefer using http://www.yourls.com because its simple to use, very organized.

By: aquamarina

aquamarina — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:29:18 +0000

ditto!

By: Gromerer

Gromerer — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:49:56 +0000

I totally agree, adverts are the most disturbing for me. Many of mentioned sites look interesting, but I prefer clean and user-friendly interface. So…http://boardblocks.com

By: Edie Shack

Edie Shack — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:16:43 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. Ustart turned out to be just what I wanted, very close in appearance and function to iGoogle and possible superior.

By: Tim Brookes

Tim Brookes — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:53:41 +0000

I’m glad the article has helped you out! When you do find an iGoogle replacement that suits your needs, do stop by again and tell us what you’ve chosen and why! :)

NetVibes seems to be the best from my perspective, and while the pricing is a little silly the free account should do everything the average user needs.

By: dccampfin

dccampfin — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:22:20 +0000

Tim, can’t thank you enough for starting this discussion. I’ve been using igoogle for a long time, with top news, boookmarks, google maps (My Places), google translate, weather for several cities, google reader, blogger, Gmail, other email accounts, currency exchange, and about a dozen other modules. My only gripe was never being able to have Google Sites as a module that could be in one of my two igoogle pages.

I’d seen netvibes, and even emailed them about their pricing structure that looked silly to me. Not sure that it can do everything I want, so I will try out a couple of others – right now protopage and nollr (when they let me in for a beta test). Neither of these were familiar to me before your piece. I’m less interested in the ones that are mostly bookmarks and more for ones that allow full content on the page rather than than opening another page, and have easy addition of gadgets/modules of many stripes.

Last, and hardest, is how to gauge which of these is most likely to last more than a year. I’ve already been subject to more than one application I liked being absorbed by Google and then shut down. This is a feature of the new economy – it used to be that one never thought how long a company would be around when buying a product. Now, before I get too harnessed to something I try to make some kind of judgment about the viability of a company, usually not based on nearly enough data!

Anyway, thanks again.

By: JusterFX

JusterFX — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:16:02 +0000

I liked iGoogle, but I found http://boardblocks.com and it seems better to me.
It’s simple and can be linked to Facebook unlike Google.

By: Elmer M

Elmer M — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:19:44 +0000

big fan of iGoogle, hate to see it go :(

By: Marc Aguilar

Marc Aguilar — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:24:36 +0000

I am using http://www.yourls.com, by far it is the best for me. aside from it is simple and easy to use, it stores my favorite links in the cloud, so that I can access them from any browser, device or location.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:20:38 +0000

I’m personally using http://www.yourls.com. It’s extremely simple but effective personal startpage that does the job for me.

By: Emily D.

Emily D. — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:02:18 +0000

I had been using iGoogle, then switched to Speed Dial for Chrome but Nollr is much nicer because it’s totally web-based and I can check it anywhere. It also seems to be more stable. Looks and feels really smooth. It’s very “clean” almost like the new Windows 8 Metro UI and I love the way the page automatically resizes to your window. Added my favorite YouTube and Vimeo videos to my page to watch later. You can even view them without leaving the page. This is really well done!