The home pages are back

Jun 05, 2006

Cross-posted at Writing Cave. Back in the days of early web development I remember my clients insisting that I set their browser’s home page to their own website so that they could increase the hit count. Home pages are again becoming a rage but now it is the personalized home pages that are gradually catching up. I’ve been using Protopage for quite some months now, and I find it better than Yahoo! and Google home pages. Not that I use it everyday — I use Tadalist everyday though — and it is not even set as my home page, but I use it at least 5-6 times a week to access my links.

Customized home pages are basically remotely hosted pages that you can use to manage your links, your utility programs and your regular news and blog feeds. They are different from the Web 1.0 portal pages in the sense that you can customize them — you can select what you want and discard the rest — and due to AJAX capabilities they give you the much needed and much-missed-on-the-Internet desktop-like applications.