What is Your Home Page?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed
When you open up your Web browser, what is your home page set as? I know that many of you will answer Google or Yahoo. Some of you may be using a site like Facebook or MySpace as your main page. Mine is often just blank (on purpose), but when I do use one, it’s the Mac page on Alltop. This is a Website that launched a few months ago, and is largely funded by our friend Guy Kawasaki.
The idea behind Alltop is to really aggregate top resources and collections of information into a consice format, and target it to a specific audience. My homepage is set to the Mac section, as I mentioned. Just guess what’s on there? There’s links to Mac news, Mac Websites, and even Mac programs. It’s a great way to get the latest news from several places at once. If you hover your mouse over one of the story links, you’ll get a small preview box with the beginning of the article in it.
When Guy first started talking about this, there were some naysayers. They didn’t see the point of it. However, I think it’s great. I like it so much, it’s my home page. What else is there to say? I haven’t had any issues or problems with it whatsoever. They’ve done an excellent job with it so far. They’re constantly launching new ‘divisions’ of the site, such as the Mac page I use.
We help you explore your passions by collecting stories about “all the topics” on the web. We’ve grouped these collections — “aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, Muslim, celebrity gossip, military, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, we display the headlines of the latest stories from dozens of sites and blogs.
You can think of an Alltop site as a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. To be clear, Alltop sites are starting points—they are not destinations per se. The bottom line is that we are trying to enhance your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. In other words, our goal is the “cessation of Internet stagnation” by providing “aggregation without aggravation.”
So what’s your home page? Why did you choose that one?
- Jason Profit Moffatts Niche Browser.
- Buddy Browser - Safe, Educational And Fun Browser For Children.
- Stiqmo Mobile Desktop.
Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum? Use this code or download the video:
What's your #1 source for Internet needs? GoDaddy has new domain names, transfers and renewals as low as $1.99. Plus, check out their hosting plans, Web site builders, secure certificates and much more. Plus, as a listener of The Chris Pirillo Show, enter code CHRIS3 and get your .COM domain name for just $6.95 a year. Get your piece of the internet at GoDaddy!
31 Comments
VistaMeetsNick Blog
August 26th, 2008
at 8:36pm
Chris Pirillo QuickBooks Coupons Blackberry Pearl Coupon How Can We Wipe out Piracy? Will Your Next PC be a Mac?What is Your Home Page?
Chris E. Avis
August 19th, 2008
at 10:34am
I use http://my.live.com and have it customized to the RSS feeds that Like to watch.
Chris E. Avis
August 19th, 2008
at 10:35am
I use my.live.com and have it customized to the RSS feeds I like to read…
Chetan
August 19th, 2008
at 10:43am
I have my own blog as homepage to check the recent comments.. but that’s in firefox.
In safari, i have digg as my homepage to read the best stories which are on the top.
jamie
August 19th, 2008
at 10:45am
about:blank
Shock2k8
August 19th, 2008
at 10:45am
Google.com
Jonathan Fren
August 19th, 2008
at 10:46am
about:blank. And Alltop’s only been around for a few months??? I thought it was like a year at least.
Josh Crane
August 19th, 2008
at 10:57am
Mine –
I’m Always looking at my stats page, hoping, PRAYING for a visitor. Haven’t had any in weeks… D:
Kevin Rossen
August 19th, 2008
at 10:57am
Google Reader – I like being able to quickly scan RSS feeds using keyboard shortcuts and star things that I want to read later.
Dan
August 19th, 2008
at 11:05am
popurls.com and igoogle
Steve
August 19th, 2008
at 11:15am
I do something similar, but since I’m a movie fan, I set http://cinerati.com as my home page. It’s also an aggregator, but uses a “river of news” layout and includes image thumbnails to go along with the stories.
Valto
August 19th, 2008
at 11:48am
I use speed dial addon for firefox, where I can have multiple websites configured.Very good on netbooks & umpc’s & touch screen devices
Shane
August 19th, 2008
at 12:00pm
kinda reminds me of Digg, which is what i use, but with a lot more categories
Commander K
August 19th, 2008
at 12:34pm
I made my own page > http://greeting.creativeliberties.com/
xian
August 19th, 2008
at 12:40pm
I liked Alltop when it was called Yahoo 1.0
:P
Marcus Hamaker
August 19th, 2008
at 1:16pm
about:blank
But I do like to hear what other people are using. This site in specific is very cool and I have added it to my bookmarks :)
zendreamer
August 19th, 2008
at 1:41pm
I use http://www.netvibes.com/zendreamer
I consider it a little bit better then Igoogle.
Cheers!
Drew
August 19th, 2008
at 4:43pm
BoingBoing.net is my homepage.
Steve Elliott
August 19th, 2008
at 8:47pm
I use Excite believe it or not. I like the three column layout it offers which most other home pages don’t offer. I seem to be able to customize it more than any thing else I’ve ever tried as well. Prodigy turned me on to it back in the day as Bulletin Boards and on line services were dying. Then when excite revamped I stuck with them.
As I said they have the best layout. Visuals aren’t the only thing, THEY ARE EVERYTHING!!
Frank Schnyder
August 20th, 2008
at 12:16pm
Mine’s chris.pirillo.com!
Just kidding. It’s actually CNN.
bradleybradwell
August 20th, 2008
at 7:15pm
I use Google, but i’m finding it more appealing to search on other search engines, even news sites like CNN. Google seems to be the logical home page though as it’s the home base of the internet, and when you open the browser it’s nice to feel the comfort of a place where you can connect to just about anything in the world.
Kyle Teachman
August 21st, 2008
at 5:55am
Mine is, as usual, google.com… But it is a step up from comcast.net [my ISP]. I’m thinking about putting it as my admin site for my website however… I do love that Mac site you pointed to Chris, great source for mac info!
Chris Hadley
August 21st, 2008
at 7:11am
Wow, Alltop doesn’t joke around with content! I didn’t expect to see that much pull up and in such an organized format.
Personally, I use Google. However, I really should just start using a blank page since I have the Google search option in my brower’s toolbar. For some reason that never crossed my mind before.
bloop
August 21st, 2008
at 4:53pm
not a bad site mine is (in IE rarely use) cox.net, (FF use mostly) google.com, (Safari rarely use) my schools web site, (Opra rarely use) yahoo.com. the only thing i dont like about the alltop site is the bar thats near then bottom of the screen i dont like fixed things on websites they drive me nuts,
David
August 22nd, 2008
at 7:19am
iGoogle
It’s nice once you’ve got it personalised to display news relevant to you as well as your most frequently used bookmarks and other ‘gadgets’, like the to do list.
John11
August 23rd, 2008
at 11:13pm
I usually keep my home page set to Google , the reason is because of it being a great search engine
sbushfan11
August 24th, 2008
at 1:54am
Mine homepage is http://www.rr.com from Time Warner. I like the clean lay out and good choices of news and sports articles.
girl_mod+
August 24th, 2008
at 9:43am
unfortuantly, with opera as my web browser i dont really have a homepage per say. but what opera does have is called speed dial. so you can access all your most used websites with the click of your mouse button. mine are usually google.com, weather.com -cause i like to check out that days weather, and yahoo.movies.com -cause it seems im always going to the movies these days. but of course my speed dial page wouldnt be complete without chris.prillio.com :)
Chris Luckenbaugh
August 24th, 2008
at 11:22pm
My homepage is google, always will be :D
Jaiden
August 25th, 2008
at 5:38am
My homepage is igoogle, but I have my browser set to open up the last session, so I don’t really use it that much ( cause I’ve got the google search bar in the corner)
John Everett
July 17th, 2009
at 11:29pm
I keep coming back to MYHQ.com, but am trying MyLinkVault.com, – to have my always-used bookmarks in my face, at home and at work.