While I can definitely commiserate with Google ending services (Google
Pack, for one, and SideWiki for another), I can see why they would want to
cut back on iGoogle in their age of 'streamlining'. I used it for a while,
but as a homepage it became undesirable because of a slower load time, and
I was having difficulties keeping the widgets organized. Since many were
third-party, sometimes they would break or disappear.
So what is an alternative? Well, until I hear about a third-party solution,
something I was intrigued by was this guy <http://www.xorph.com/start/>,
who put a page on his website with what he needs. The advantage of this is
he can have public and private content (latter accessed by login; try
clicking on 'edit this page'), accessible from anywhere, with local content
and content sourced from or linked to anywhere on the Internet. So about
the same advantage as iGoogle/MyYahoo, but more personalized (on the other
hand, more work to set up).
-Arlo James Barnes
*PostScript* Ninja'd by Chad Kieffer edition: I use Instapaper to turn what
would be an insane amount of bookmarks into CSV.
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