I thought we’d witnessed the death of the whole custom start page thing after the first bubble burst (am I subconsciously expecting another?
Yessssss..., but I digress...), however they’ve been resurrected with a vengeance. They aggregate external content now instead of following the old walled garden model of their predecessors and they’ve been spiced up with flash or all kinds of ajaxy eye-candy goodness, but the principle remains the same: a single start page condensing everything you read or need into a bite-sized chunk of html.
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