Google's Homepage

Google's personalized homepage has new features. In fact, it has the two new features that everyone wanted. You can add your own bookmarks and feeds now. In no way can this page be confused with the mammoth personal portal that Yahoo provides. There's still no calendar, reminders, briefcase, notes, or any of the PIM features that makes Yahoo invaluable to so many. What it is at the moment is a streamlined, fast loading, customizable home page. For a lot of people, that's more than enough.

What features does it still need? Well, the bookmarks are a start, but they need work. They need labels or tags and they either need to be sortable or they need to sort themselves alphabetically. A bookmarklet for adding bookmarks is needed. And finally, a secure connection to the inbox should either be the default or an option.

It's still a work in progress, but it's another one of those wickedly good things that Google does so well. It packages sophisticated technology into a deceptively simple, intuitive interface.