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Ask HN: What's your homepage?

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It looks like Google is going to insist on adding more and more garbage to the once fantastic iGoogle. Since they are adding things that I can't easily get rid of, I'm in the market for a new home page.

What do you guys use for your homepage? (Even if the answer is your startup's web site, I'm interested!)

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My home page is set to http://www.sfu.ca/ -- my undergraduate university's website. It sounds crazy, but this actually turns out to be quite useful: I very rarely go to that website deliberately, but having it as my home page means that any interesting news is likely to catch my eye in the fraction of a second between opening the browser and going to whichever website I actually wanted to look at.

My homepage is set to http://keyboardr.com/, but I rarely hit the button to go there; my browser starts with a blank page

I haven't seen this before. It's pretty cool (and fast!).

Yup I actually love it. It's clean, simple and fast. But somehow I just tend to use the browser's builtin search thingie. I've never been a "homepage" kind of person, I guess :-)

I love this concept! I was just using the default firefox page, but now this is my homepage.

I use a small page I put together that displays the weather for my location and the links I use most. I've been meaning for a long time to add a bit of functionality (adding/deleting/changing links) to it but haven't gotten around to it yet. It's just a handcoded file, but it gets the job done.

here it is: http://www.maximise.dk/start/

This is a pretty good idea - I may end up just rolling my own like you have; that way I only have myself to blame if I don't like it =D

about:blank

but I almost always start from the previous session

Same here. about:blank has been my homepage for years-- one of the few holdovers from my IE days.

At work, my company's cafeteria menu on the Intranet. Think Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

My homepage is Netvibes.com straight to my feeds and hours of procastination...

http://helpuu.com/, check it out.

Safari 4's Top Sites.

my homepage is set to my bookmarks (an html page with the exported bookmarks).

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