Other portals?

[Maksutov]

I've used Yahoo! as an inet portal for about 10 years. Unfortunately, recent changes have made it resemble People magazine content-wise, and their once-useful Yahoo TV page has been rendered almost useless by ads, gossip, and a slow-loading, ad-laden applet which has eliminated most of the functionality of the earlier applet. I want to know what's on, not be told what to watch.

Are there any other portals out there that provide useful news and services?

Your recommendations are appreciated.


PS: No MSN please.

[davidlpf]

Google but to get email account you have to invited by another user.

[Serenitude]

PS: No MSN please.

:lol: As a hotmail user myself, I was going warn you that if you think Yahoo is bad, msn is tons worse. It's like People magazine for 12 year old girls :lol:

PS: if you need a google invite, let me know ;)

[mickal555]

Does goole provide those things though?

Sometimes an ISP page can be OK...

[davidlpf]

Does goole provide those things though?

Sometimes an ISP page can be OK...
yes when signed for gmail you can set a personal web page with some features like links some of your favourite pages and updates on weather.

[Maksutov]

Google but to get email account you have to invited by another user.I'm a Gmail user with ~5 invites left. Where's the portal?

Ah, thank you, davidlpf. I'll check it out.

[Serenitude]

it's at www.google.com

At the top-right, it should have a link for a personalized page (or something there-abouts). Click on it. Google offers a VERY high variety of homepage options. My favorite is the Chimp-o-matic (warning - if you voted for Bush, don't choose the Chimp-o-matic ;) )

[Maksutov]

it's at www.google.com (http://www.google.com)

At the top-right, it should have a link for a personalized page (or something there-abouts). Click on it. Google offers a VERY high variety of homepage options. My favorite is the Chimp-o-matic (warning - if you voted for Bush, don't choose the Chimp-o-matic ;) )That means it's got my vote. Will try it out!

[Trebuchet]

I don't use a portal. My home page is the main Google page. Plain and unadorned.

My company has been pushing internal portals on us for several years. All they do is slow things down. When they introduced the first version, several people in my group spent hours customizing them. After which they updated the software so all the customization was lost. This has happend three or four times now. I refuse to use the portal to access a company page unless there's no other way to get there. Which is happening more and more, unfortunately.

[mickal555]

yes when signed for gmail you can set a personal web page with some features like links some of your favourite pages and updates on weather.

Never noticed, I use gmail through POP...


My homepage is google, but I leave my computer on and firefox running so I usally have a heap of tabs that I'm using or want to look at later open. 39 at the moment...

I wish I could scroll through them, sometimes it gets that they won't all fit and dissapear...

[Maksutov]

Never noticed, I use gmail through POP...


My homepage is google, but I leave my computer on and firefox running so I usally have a heap of tabs that I'm using or want to look at later open. 39 at the moment...

I wish I could scroll through them, sometimes it gets that they won't all fit and dissapear...Do you control your computer or does your computer control you?

[mickal555]

Hey, half of them are BAUT Mr. 9061 posts :lol:

[Maksutov]

it's at www.google.com (http://www.google.com)

At the top-right, it should have a link for a personalized page (or something there-abouts). Click on it. Google offers a VERY high variety of homepage options. My favorite is the Chimp-o-matic (warning - if you voted for Bush, don't choose the Chimp-o-matic ;) )Hey, thanks! I'm building my new home page/portal little-by-little. And thanks for the Chimp-O-Matic warning. Almost sprayed Fresca on the screen!

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/4879/iconbiggrin1kg.gif

[Maksutov]

OK, the Google customized homepage seems to be working OK.

Only glitch so far is that after a while I get more than one Gmail tab. After some time there are a bunch of them. Any tweak available to prevent this?