Wondering what to do when they get rid next month? The alternatives they suggest don’t seem to do what I want – which is..
News feeds
Web links
Mail gadgets

all on my homepage…

Any suggestions?

For News (RSS) feeds I just use Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader/
(via web interface on PC and Reeder app on iPhone/iPad)

I have WAY too many to try and cram onto one home page!

I thought it wasn’t be switched off until november 2013

I use it because we are stuck to just using IE8 at work, so I can’t use a customized chrome (which is their suggested alternative).

Hopefully I’ll work somewhere more sensible by the time they turn it off.

Dave

just checked, it is definitely 2013, so you’ve got another year:

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197&topic=1678516&ctx=topic

Dave

Dave Alfabus. I love you.
2013 it is 🙂

[Edit] + 😳

Graham, have you seen Feedly? It has a more contemporary look and feel, and is really easy to use.

I was disappointed to see this go, I can’t see the reason to just turn it off.

I liked having weather, google reader and live market / gold prices on my homepage. I can’t do that with their suggested alternatives 🙁

I was disappointed to see this go, I can’t see the reason to just turn it off.

+1, makes a great home page with Google mail, Google calender, news, weather etc. widgets

Glad it’s not just me!
I can see the alternative being a combination – something like Feedly with Chrome gadgets… not the same though.

I set one up years ago, can’t say as I ever used it in anger though. I didn’t know it was still going.

TBH, I’ve never got the point of a ‘home page’ anyway. Who goes to the same page every time they open a browser window? I used to have Google as my home page before the advent of search bars integrated into the browser, but these days I just have it set to being a blank page. Maybe it’d be different if I was a very light user, but I typically have dozens of pages open at any one time and I want new tabs to open immediately rather than sit reloading a page I’ve already seen multiple times today.

I don’t use it at home… just for work, where it is useful to have an inobtrusive page with all manner of stuff I use often sat open on my ‘open to the world’ PC, while I get on with stuff on my development PC.

If nothing else, it provides a useful tab for me to put in front of STW 🙂

Dave

Graham, have you seen Feedly? It has a more contemporary look and feel, and is really easy to use.

Just installed this, looks nice so far. Just need some decent feeds to follow now…

So this Feedly – can you get rid of the bloody AMAZON ADVERT??

Amazon advert? I don’t have any ads on mine.

Graham, have you seen Feedly?

Hmm.. watched the vid on the website. Looks a bit like FlipBoard in the way it “magazinifies” the content

Pretty. But it doesn’t look that useful for scanning over hundreds of headlines at a time, which tends to be how I use Reader & Reeder.

Amazon advert? I don’t have any ads on mine.

You don’t see this down the right? Wouldn’t mind so much if it was targeted!

Amazon add on mine (LHS when you click through to an article).

I use it as a convenient cross-platform, cross-machine RSS client. Haven’t found a good alternative yet, but can’t say I’ve spent much time looking.

Glad I am not alone here. I like it as it gives me a nice, low key way to check a few things whilst at work. I will keep an eye on this tread to see if it offers any alternatives.

Still no ads on mine 🙂

So, not long to go now… what you using?

I’ve just found this
http://www.ighome.com/

Setting it up.
They’ve tried to make it as much like iGoogle as possible. It’s ok , little bit clunky, but I think I’ll get used to it.