This time last year personal homepages were all the rage, with both big players like Google, MSN and Yahoo! and also small players like netvibes and pageflakes all frantically developing services.
However, it’s rare these days to see any interesting stories break about personal homepages. I wonder, is this because RSS readers have stolen their thunder?
I am almost totally reliant on my RSS reader for my daily surf. My homepages (I use FF2) are gmail and Google Reader. The only other site I visit regularly directly is the BBC, so I have almost no need of a personalised homepage. I do however use Google’s homepage on my work PC, because for some reason it’s the only way I can get into gmail, as the corporate firewall blocks all other access routes.
Are you as dependent as me on RSS? Do you think that personalised homepages will continue to have a role on the web?
