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I am thinking about making Gmail my browser home page. What's yours? Comment here.
Voyagerfan5761, David Weiner, Svartling and 5 other people liked this
I'm here obviously
- Noah David Simon
about:blank I create too many new tabs for anything else to be reasonable.
- Melissa
same like Melissa
- embee
my homepage is iGoogle, but it features the Gmail widget so I get both
- Scott Kiekbusch
iGoogle.
- Alisha
about:blank
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
mine is blank :) but my dad uses google calendar.
- Goktug Gedik
Gmail. :) I pretty much keep my session set so that Gmail, GReader, and Friendfeed are open all the time.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I use "Speed Dial", a Firefox add-in, which shows my 20 top favorite websites - displayed as thumbnails images all on 1 page ...just click and go... very similar to the Opera browser and Google Chrome's home page idea.
- Susan Beebe
I start always with Twitter
- Jess
about:blank
- Steven Perez
It used to be iGoogle but I have recently switched to Gmail since I have added the FriendFeed, Remember The Milk and Calendar modules - I highly recommend it!
- Luca Belletti
from IM
Leave two pages open in Flock - Friendfeed and google reader - iGoogle would probably do though.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
The Friendfeed integration with GTalk is one reason for my potential switch.
- Steve Rubel
FF be thy homepage..
- Shmoe
from IM
Gmail. Twitter. GReader.
- bob ashley
iGoogle's my home page, but more often than not I head to Twitter first.
- Rod Nicolson
I have several - Gmail, Google Reader, Friendfeed
- Wayne Schulz
I use iGoogle for my homepage, with the Gmail gadget on there of course!
- Ken Knecht
@steverubel Gmail is also one of my browser's start tabs. I also open Friendfeed, twitter, and GReader via Tab Mix Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...)
- Czar
Gmail, iGoogle, and a handmade page full of links in the browser; FF in a mini window off to one side; and Digsby in the systray for Twitter . . .
- LJF Wolffe
iGoogle, but I also use the speed dial in Firefox (plugin) and Google Chrome (home page).
- Philip Norton
about:blank Helps me be mindful of where I really want to go when starting a session
- Peter Svensk
PassPack, FriendFeed, iTweet, Rejaw
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
http://server/local/ personalized page (87+ links)
- Lora Lufark
iGoogle (with the friendfeed, nytimes, and reader gadgets)
- don loeb
The only time I ever had a home page in any browser was when I made my own little no-frills browser and hard coded Google as its home page, which I ended up regretting, because it slowed the browser down.
- April Russo (app103)
Chrome's "most visited" page.
- Brent Logan
about:blank too.. nothing beats an instant popup browser ready for my input :)
- alphaxion
I don't even know, probably the browser default. Always just open previous session.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
netvibes.com ftw!
- Kyle Ingrelli
Thanks for the ? I enjoyed some of the answers and have added Speed Dial to my site.
- CathyVon
I'm using Mailplane for Gmail. Highly recommended.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
I open two pages automatically: Meebo and GReader. But my default is still the Firefox default.
- Lorin Olsen
I think this post just helped convince me to use iGoogle more again
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Speed Dial :)
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Techmeme
- ian kennedy
I start with google reader.
- sara
At work it's iGoogle, at home it's the Firefox default
- Sally: in Florida
igoogle
- krist80
FriendFeed. Before that, it was Google Reader, and before that, My Yahoo!.
- Louis Gray
igoogle
- Dennis
'blank' as each time I open the browser I always want to go somewhere different. BB keeps me up to date with email..
- Nigel Stolting
I'm still Google Reader. I still use Twhirl mostly for FriendFeed.
- Jesse Stay
I launch my browser with four tabs, in this order: 1) Gmail 2) Pandora 3) Google Reader 4) Twitter
- Bryan Person
Google Reader with the FriendFeed real-time sidebar open at all times. I usually have Gmail and Facebook always open in a tabs most of the time. Not a fan of gateway sites like iGoogle. Can't get used to the layout. Not intuitive to me.
- Rolf Schewe
Totally agree with @schewe
- Lizunlong
about:robots of course
- Raphael, Raphael
jellodash as my homepage with yoono as sidebar. sometimes also oodesk.
- Stefan Lafloer
I tried that for a while but it takes too long for the page to load. Might be different with FF3 though. Currently it is iGoogle for me.
- Rob
iGoogle: Gmail (by Ginga) & Remember the Milk gadgets on top. My iGoogle tabs are News (Google, Digg, Fark), Social (FF, Twitter, Facebook), Docs (Google Docs, Notebook) and Pandora loads in my Vista sidebar automatically.
- Gus
New tabs (or windows) are blank. GReader & Friendfeed are always open. Others as needed.
- LogEx
FriendFeed,Twitter,Gmail,GReader,iGoogle,Twhirl - infernal machine.:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
I use an easily-updated all-white homepage made out of a Word document that I saved to HTML and posted online with "No Index, No Follow" tags. I use a lot of websites and databases that require a user name and password, and I like to have all of these sites in one place where I can control how they are clustered together (example: Databases, Company Information, List Sources, etc.). The page also includes frequently used form letters. I also love the fact that the UI is completely commercial free.
- Ecommerce Jobs
I use speed dial (fire fox) it has windows that thumbnail 9 sights of my choice. On my windows box its ff, and gaming sights and wilik's. On my linux box is ff assorted wiki's and forums.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
FireStatus - A Status Update Utility for Twitter, Facebook & FriendFeed - http://blog.go2web20.net/2008...
Amie Gillingham, Jon West, Charlie Anzman and 3 other people liked this
did you try out yoono ? it also has the update capabilities for twitter, ff and fb, besides other features embed as a sidebar..
- Stefan Lafloer
Survey: IM - love it or hate it? I used to love it, now I kinda hate it.
Arjun, Sarah Perez, Susan Beebe and 5 other people liked this
IM serves a purpose for me still, but I dont love OR hate it. It just...is...
- Andru Edwards
I'm using it like a phone. If i need urgent communication with a person, then i turn it on, otherwise it's all off.
- Selim Yoruk
yeah my mom confronted me yesterday, "why are you off chat??" and I realized a client also had used it to contact me, and was freaking out. I kinda hate it.
- anna sauce
I used to use it a lot but now it just idles in the background ignored 90% of the time.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Love it. Use it at work on my laptop and on the go on my WinMobile.
- David Cook
from twhirl
neither; I see it as my SMS for non-SMS people.
- clarke thomas
I miss it... can't use it at work and feel completely cut off from the outside world (if it weren't for FriendFeed I would be totally stir crazy at work). Amendment - can't use it EXTERNALLY at work...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Still love it.
- Rodfather
I use Adium/Trillian and no brand specific chats. Makes my life a lot easier.
- anna sauce
Lindsay, I hear netadmins will trade access for boobage. ;)
- mjc
i'm with andru...serves a purpose but don't love or hate...
- Wendy M. Chapman
I couldn't make it through my day w/out IM. being able to chat w/ friends saves the little bit of sanity I still have.
- ♥patricia♥
HATE. i only talk to my husband via IM and only because he's in one room and i'm the other and i want to share or ask him something. friends, i'll do like i do on the phone and get off as quick as possible. i should add, that it's one thing to try to catch up with me, but if you're IMing me as a way to pass your work day, think again. that being said, i do love using IMVU.
- Admiral Anika
IM is Twitter for people who haven't gotten onto Twitter yet. ;-)
- Josh Bancroft
I use IM extensively for work and home. It's a lot easier to copy/paste info to each other. I've thought of setting up a Laconica server at work but haven't really found a good reason to.
- Rodfather
Hell, even my wife and I no longer chat on IM. We use a private room on FriendFeed for that.
- Akiva Moskovitz
+1 for Akiva and his wife.
- Steve Rubel
hate it. Distracting. I get on Skype or Adium only when I've got a chat or call lined up
- Duncan Riley
Useful, but annoying.
- Sarah Perez
Hate it and don't use it.
- Louis Gray
Don't mind it.
- Caleb Elston
helpful in some working environments to get people weened off sending 1000 emails a day. IM is more efficient to process than email in certain kinds of working conditions / groups. I have a 2 min rule though - if IM goes more than 2 min pick up the phone.
- Dean Terry
I use it only for work. It really cuts down on back and forth emails. When we were migrating our website, I used it constantly to communicate with the rest of the team.
- Laura Norvig
have it installed , dont use it ,, dont need it .. dont hate it
- johnpiercy
Haven't used it in years.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Please, PLEASE use IM instead of filling up my dadgummed Inbox! ARGH! I don't need your turnover reports or your requests to be added to this listserv or...ah, anybody seen my drugs? Just saying...my boss just requested that my mailbox max size be increased because I hadn't been able to send mail for, oh, weeks (maybe slight exaggeration).
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Hate it - it forces me to answer right then and right now, even if I don't have the time to answer
- Jesse Stay
How many people under 30 hate it? I personaly love it. My Digsby app keeps me on all of them at once.
- morten saxnaes
actually hate it now - it's too "instant" and disruptive
- David Petar Novakovic
from twhirl
oh yeah, and i'm 26
- David Petar Novakovic
from twhirl
love it
- Arjun
actually i grew to appreciate it again.. as a delivery mechanism for rss, twiiter, fb and ff via yoono. still my main means of connecting wi
- Stefan Lafloer
Friendfeed is for geeks while Facebook is for everyone else. Agree or disagree?
Kevin Whalen, Giusy Mauro, simonpure and 49 other people liked this
agree
- atalmatal
No. I think Friendfeed has a lot to offer for non-geeks. Just not in it's current early stages (swamped with tech).
- Mo Kargas
You mean that normal people have no clue how to process information or work efficiently and be happy with offerings of the like of facebook while geeks do not enjoy as much normal everyday stuff normal people enjoy? Absolutly.
- Nicole Simon
Facebook is online presence for [mostly] non-online people. FriendFeed is for those who are able to appreciate the steady flow of information online, mostly geeks. Grasping the concept takes too much time for a non-geek ;-) I agree.
- Lech
What if you have both? Am I a geekier version of everyone else?
- Shannon
agree until i can only see the people i've added to my friend list and not friends of friends information then i doubt anyone else will care.
- Jonathan Jesse
FF geeker than FB:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
What if you use the FF application from within Facebook?
- Mike Boudreaux
from fftogo
Isn't Facebook trying to *be* Friendfeed these days with the new look? I agree here, though, my non-web-wired friends and family are on FB, but not FF :(
- Michael Pick
from twhirl
in the same way as computers _used to be_ for geeks, agree
- Dani Radu
not so agree!
- nytreporter
Facebook is for women. Most men will just keep in touch with friends on an ad-hoc basis -- and we're happy enough with that. And what's with all this Relationship Barometer crap, or whatever its called? That's just kooky imo. Like I'm going to advertise the fact that 'Its Complicated'. Rubbish.
- john conroy
Agreed.
- David Cook
from twhirl
I check Facebook regularly and last I checked I wasn't a woman!
- Joe Dawson
Somewhat agree. Facebook has indeed become mainstream, while FriendFeed is currently populated by early-adopters (which many read as "geeks").
- Nick Mutton
FriendFeed is an aggregator and conversation spot for the open Web (which is under attack). Google can get to everything here. It can't get to everything in Facebook. Another way to recast it? FriendFeed is for everyone who wants to be public. Facebook is for everyone who wants to support a walled garden. There's more than geeks here, by the way. Do you want proof? Do some searches. Here's one for quilting: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
I'll pay that one Robert, there's more geeks here for now. Do you think it will ever expand out to non-geeks?
- Mo Kargas
for now yes. Was facebook for geeks when they only had 100k users?
- Ouriel Ohayon
At least I can share a link from FriendFeed with everyone. Can you do that with Facebook?
- Orli Yakuel
WOW, I never knew I was a Geek....good to know.
- Scot Duke
Agree-I find more sophisticated users here, myspace seems so highschoolish for me always has.
- orionstarr
as for the being public issue: people in FB really share everything, and indeed this happens mostly because they're 'non-online' 'low-tech' or whatever you may call them. people in FF still think are in a protected fence since it's geekier and not mainstream yet. the question is: how much do we care about google when we feel we are in a group of friends (or birds of the same feather anyway)?
- Elvira
Myspace is a dive bar - more fun if you're there for the music or have tattoos and are kind of slutty. Facebook is the posh bar everyone wants to get into - it used to be invite only but now they killed the cover and are letting everyone in. Friendfeed is the LAN party in someone's basement........
- George Smith
I'm really a non-geek. I'm more comfortable with the user interface on Facebook. But, of course, I just used the term "user interface" on FriendFeed -- so maybe I need to rethink my possible geeky-tude.
- Cheryl Rice
I hope not.
- Vincent van Wylick
agree...
- catepol
disagree
- candy
Agree. Same with Twitter – which is why I like both, and like to keep them distinct.
- Dan Byler
for uber geek, yes...
- Fabrice Epelboin
from twhirl
Disagree.
- Louis Gray
disagree - friendfeed != facebook
- Morgan
I was hoping FF rooms would provide a good way to have conversations focused on non-tech topics, but so far they don't seem to be taking off much.
- Costa Walcott
I'm using Friendfeed in Facebbok so I'm everyone else's geek!
- Mike Lewis
there is anyone else? really?
- MAK The Water Boy
There is so little parallel functionality, I wonder why there is the pervasive insistence to group these two together. So, disagree.
- jcunwired
I disagree, cause of the fact that there's no FunWalls, SuperWalls doesn't mean it can't go mainstream in the near future.
- Tibor Holoda
I use facebook, twitter and friendfeed and linkedin too - what does that make me? A friend to be followed, requested, added to your network maybe...
- Julie Watt
disagree: if "geek" stands for complicated and difficult to use, facebook wins over ff
- FedericaB.
FriendFeed is for paople I don't know. Facebook is for my immediate real friends. I put my geeky stuff on FriendFeed/Twitter, etc...and for personal stuff with my more generic friend audience, I put appropriate content on Facebook.
- Todd
I don't consider myself a geek, but I love FF.
- ::Kristen::
geeks->multiple and extensive online presence and usages->need to aggregate->FF
- Hayk H.
youth and simple folk-> some usage of the Internet-> need to communicate-> some platform where everyone is-> Facebook
- Hayk H.
Disagree. Friendfeed is for everyone. We geeks have a strong presence here, but there are non-geek communities as well. I suppose if you don't know any non-geeks on friendfeed, you won't see many at all. The problem lies in the fact that many non-geeks THINK that friendfeed is for geeks. If more non-geeks came over, those communities would grow. Now, do I win a prize for saying "geeks" the most times in a comment?
- Slappy Line
Disagree. Friendfeed is for real-time topical conversation and more. Facebook is to connect, introduce, sneaky e-mail .... (and not play Scrabble)
- Charlie Anzman
i would categorize friendfeed as thought and opinion exchange, while facebook is for networking purposes..
- Stefan Lafloer
Nope, this geek still isn't into Friendfeed. Facebook gets used (finally) with connecting with my RL friends, as well as social media ones, and reconnecting with folks from high school, college and previous places I've worked. Facebook = social exchanges and Friendfeed = idea exchanges and media sharing. But I still rarely use Friendfeed as I find the interface too cumbersome. Back to Twitter.....
- Rob Usdin
Microsoft is pushing SP3 for Windows XP. My machine is dying, dying.
i switched my home machine to mepis7 linux.. works great.. maybe its time :-)
- Stefan Lafloer
Zemanta and Kaalga have become essential tools to my blogging efforts.
Just out of curiosity: How did you find out about Kaalga? I'm using it myself and very happy with it but I don't know how heavily it is been used.
- Ori Mosenzon
Hi Stefan, I'm the developer of Kaalga. Thanks for mentioning us :) I'll be really happy if you could give me some feedback on your experience with Kaalga. What do you like and don't like about it? What do you think we should do to improve. If you prefer to do it personally, you can either friend me on Facebook, or Email me to amitaviv99 [@] gmail dot com. Thanks, Amit.
- amit aviv
ori, i am regularly checking firefox add-ons (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...). that is where i found it.. those tools together are great.
- Stefan Lafloer
Amit, thanks for doing such a great job with this tool. i love that you can click on a word and get a google reference. would be great if you could configure it to look for other websites (amazon, yahoo, friendfeed, others) and include their links. the http link does that, but preconfigured would be nice. same for graphics. keep up the good work !
- Stefan Lafloer
Thanks for the kind words and important input, I'll try to add it next week, or the week after. Our current version stopped working correctly due to changes in Google search, a new version is available in FireFox addons site, or in kaalga.com, sorry for the inconvenience.
- amit aviv
@lafleur what? what? what new job?
yes, check out my linkedin for more info.. or call me :-)
- Stefan Lafloer
Will Economic Downturn Sink Digital? - http://www.adweek.com/aw...
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actually i think it will foster online activities. ppl will stay home. spent more time online.. but there will definitely be less spending..
- Stefan Lafloer
Personal site - http://www.orimosenzon.com
Ori, I found kaalga through the firefox add-on site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... - looking for something to add value to blogging with blogger.
- Stefan Lafloer
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