Silicon Valley Musings

Robert asks what is your default browser page.

My default Web page is set to blank.

My portal of choice is still MyYahoo. The problem with this page is that it doesn’t do a good job of letting you know when new features are available on the rest of the Yahoo property. So I occasionally need to go to www.yahoo.com to see what Yahoo has been doing.

There is one Web page I always have open, GMail. Google is leveraging this fact. They are slowly enhancing the GMail page to be a portal: Chat is integrated, Web Clips run above the list of email subjects, links to Google, Calendar, and More appear in the upper left corner, and of course contextual ads are displayed on each email message.