Now I know we live in the wild and wacky world of Web 2.0 (where dreams really do come true) but I have to stand up and make note of something. I was searching through Tech Crunch for a few start page examples. I have only looked at a few really, so I thought I might give another one or two a shot.
Well, the more start pages I looked at, the more they all started to look the same. I write about it now because I want to make sure my eyes are not playing tricks with me. No mater where you go, they all have the same RSS reading, Gmail checking, Flickr pictures, sticky notes and local weather. Here is a list of examples from Tech Crunch, have a look at each one and try to prove me wrong!
I would go into further detail about each one of them, but they can all pretty much be summed up in one description. With Goowy being the only exception, they are all ugly. They are all pretty much clones of the next one. It is like one looks at the next and says, “Hey.. we’ll do that, except we will make our start page green”.
Looks like I’ll be keeping digg.com as my start page for a little while longer.
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