Man, did these folks ever nail it right on the head. Start pages mean nothing. The real important issue is the Web browser and that is where that battle for online dominance will truly be fought.

Microsoft’s recent ‘Live’ announcements was a bunch of different stuff all happening at once. But what I found most fascinating is the renewed interest in these ‘personalized homepages’. The concept of a ‘personalized homepage’ as a one-stop shop web portal has been around forever. Just about every major company has tried it at one point and time. But now we have Microsoft’s start.com and live.com and of course Google’s own version. The idea is that you will use this page to get RSS feeds, weather, stock quotes, email – everything under the sun. Consider it a web OS, a mini operating system right in your browser. [Read the rest]

[tags]firefox,web 2.0,microsoft live,start.com[/tags]