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superscaper

I've been using google's personalized page as my homepage for a while now. Very convenient and easy to add things. But are there any alternatives (don't necessarily like being tied into google)? Is it worth simply creating my own homepage from scratch on my domain, what do other people use?

GaryS

I use my own website as my homepage, I have also used a local page created on the C drive in the past.

superscaper

That was what I was thinking, I'm just bit torn with the easy to add features with google, eg rss feeds, weather etc.

superscaper

Looking at it I suppose there's nothing to stop me making my own page and adding the google gadgets that I like to it, that way I take advantage of them without it being a google page.

Aliktren

this is pretty cool and might be an alternative :

http://www.netvibes.com/

wolfman

Create one on your localhost (for speed) but also put it on your domain so you can still use it when not at your normal pc.

What's wrong with Google any how? You're not really tied to them anyway, as you mentioned you can make your own page. You just choose to use the service or not.

superscaper

Maybe I could make this a hobby project for myself and hopefully learn something in the process. Best of all worlds. Might take some effort but nothing wrong in learning something new. Found this after taking onboard everyone's comments: http://www.musestorm.com/developers/tutorials/ad_tutorial.jsp

wolfman

If you've got .Net hosting, or just want to host it on your local machine, grab .Net 2.0/3.0, and Ajax.Net.

You can develop something very quickly and easily with Visual Studio.Net Express, and there are plenty of walkthrough's, video's etc... on https://www.asp.net.

It makes not only building the logic, but putting Ajax in place very simple to do. Hmmm, might knock something up myself actually now that you mention it. A little pet project to work on.