If you haven't tried Google's personalized homepage (similar to MyYahoo), give it a peek after getting your Gmail account. Next, you'll want to try the Next Great Copy from Microsoft: Start. It's just like Google's, but of course uses MSN for search and isn't Safari compatible. It does, however, use Ajax, and looks pretty swanky.

Hot on the heels of aping offerings like Google Earth, MS seems pretty intent on matching the moves of their "do no evil" web-based competitors from sunny Mountain View. When I opened up the page it magically new I like BBC News, Engadget, and BoingBoing. Oh wait, there's the weather for Redmond. Looks like they just know what geeks like me want on their pages... What, no Slashdot? Start is working on Firefox on my Mac, and no doubt will work just fine in IE... Now I wonder what it holds for the future of IE7, and LongVista?