Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

5 points·ClintonWu··11 comments

Could be in the traditional sense (iGoogle, Netvibes, or other portal) or non-traditional sense (my e-mail or Flipboard or Facebook/Twitter is my start page) though doubt the traditional sense is relevant to HN.

Inspired by: http://clintonwu.com/post/10445425917/death-of-the-personal-start-page

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Goosh, the unofficial Google shell

http://goosh.org/

That's pretty cool. I'll have to start using it.

thx for the link, it's so awesome

My current start page is google with instant on. But, interestingly, it used to be mint.com. I became very addicted to mint for a period of about 3 months. After that initial phase, I never used it again. Maybe I burnt myself out.

I need randomness in my life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

I would do this if I could subscribe to particular categories. Special:Random is just too random for me. It rarely hits something that I would actually read. A subscription modle like stumbleupon would work well.

A problem here is that I have no particular problem skipping "Lymania (named for Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist)[1] is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.", and sometimes you get diverted off into weird little Wikialleys that are fun/enlightening.

Not every time I open a browser tab, for instance, do I want to get sucked into e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index

There's a tool on Erwin that allows you to jump to random categories. I have my homepage set to random Featured Articles: http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php?lang=en&...

I use about:blank

I think this started years ago when connection speeds were slower I'd hate to have anything load up automatically.

I'm old-fashioned; Google News.

These days, my github account.

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