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Argh
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Post by Argh »

Thoughts? I thought I'd get second opinions.

Maybe I'm missing the point, and there are a lot of people who want a calorie-counter and watch Ace of Cakes episodes on YouTube, which is what it shows me when I start it :roll:

I have a feeling I'm not anything like the primary audience, tbh, but it doesn't feel as... uh... "friendly" as Yahoo.
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smoth
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Post by smoth »

I hve it customized for all the news information feeds I want, the hlj gundam rss etc. use it at work for my homepage.
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Argh
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Post by Argh »

Ok, I can see that- I just never really utilize RSS, I only catch up with news on the weekends anyhow, unless something major happened.
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smoth
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well, you can watch currency levels stock values etc. There are tons of little plugins to help you stay up to date on this or that.
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maackey
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Post by maackey »

Its my homepage. I have a bunch of news feeds on there, among other stuff. For all my google searches I have a toolbar instead of a webpage. I find it much more consistent and quick.

There are some really useless little application/plugin dealies, but some are incredibly useful. Weather and news feeds being the most prevalent and widely used I would think, but I also have a dictionary word of the day (maybe once a week I'll get a good word) and Astronomy Picture of the Day (which is really nice; wonderful pictures)
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TheBigPK
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Post by TheBigPK »

if you use gmail you can stick your inbox on it, like yahoo; you can send emails without leaving the page too. You can keep up on news and such pretty easy with the rss feeds too, i use it for an rss of facebook (as fail as that is), google top news, and lifehacker. When I played eve online there is a nice little widget to keep track of your skills too.

Yahoo does look way more user friendly but someone has made a widget for every random ass thing on google.
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AF
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I got the I can has cheezeburger gadget


and news
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REVENGE
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Post by REVENGE »

Not bad, could be better. Nothing innovative imo.
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