Open Web Awards: Start Pages

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Open Web Awards: Start Pages

by Brad Linder Dec 11th 2007

What's the first thing you look at when you open your web browser every day? If you're not particularly creative, it might be a search engine, or whatever web site your computer manufacturer threw in as your Internet Explorer/Firefox home page.

But we're betting most Download Squad readers like to get completely overloaded with information the moment they go online. We're talking personalized start pages with widgets showing the weather, latest sports scores, and RSS feeds from a few dozen favorite blogs and news pages.

Go ahead, prove us wrong. Cast your vote for your favorite start page now. As you can see from the choices below, we found out during the nominations stage that people have a pretty diverse set of opinions as to what makes a good start page.

You are voting for your favorite Application or Widget in the Open Web Awards, a distributed contest to find the best sites on the web. The top three sites in this category will proceed to the final round starting December 17th, and there will be an awards ceremony at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco on January 10th, 2008.

Category: Start Pages

Sponsors:
Cohn & Wolfe PR & Mashable
Web Poll by Vizu

Tags: Open Web Awards, OpenWebAwards

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Garrison said 7:43PM on 12-11-2007

I just use a blank page.

Jake said 8:12PM on 12-11-2007

yeah, no kidding.... where is about:blank as a choice??

kojo87 said 11:20PM on 12-11-2007

i have Download Squad, Engadget, Joystiq, 4 Color Rebellion, Google News and new Firefox Extensions RSS Feeds on the iGoogle page. i check the first four at least once a day. all the info i need plus I can search The Google. what more do you need?

RP said 11:40PM on 12-11-2007

I have my own C:\Shortcuts.html home page, which loads almost as fast as about:blank, but has various search forms and favorite links.

BTW, I wish I had thought of this: It's another fast-loading home page with a few links: http://officialhomepage.org/
Unfortunately, you get the AdSense version of Google results.

Jeff Finch said 12:47AM on 12-12-2007

Please vote for my site! Dailywaste.com

meh said 9:38AM on 12-12-2007

Providing clickable links to each site would be nice.

Zia said 9:41AM on 12-12-2007

Nevibes forever....

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