When it comes to personalized start pages, it seems like everybody is copying the next guy down the block. It has been a while since I have seen anything really new or different here. Personally I use Google’s personalized home page because of the Google Reader widget. There are other choices out there though. One of those choices is YouOS.

Now what YouOS is trying to do is market itself as a web operating system. What does that mean? Well it is “fancy talk” for saying they are a start page with a lot of goodies inside. If you are not ready to sign up just yet, you can try out the demo to get a feeling for it. They have RSS, mini browsers, sticky notes and everything else you have come to expect from the Web 2.0 start pages out there.

One really neat thing that I like is the tab feature. Each widget that you have on your virtual desktop has a tab, so it makes switching between them very easy. It is very easy to tweak an existing application or write your own. So is YouOS the next big thing or just the next start page?

Tags: start page, web 2.0, online, widgets, rss, desktop