Do Startpages Help or Hurt Productivity?
Within recent years, start pages such as my.Yahoo, NetVibes, PageFlakes, and YourMinis have become very popular among web users and have certainly made things more convenient. Instead of checking all of my favorite websites, email, news sources, and blogs, I can easily check my NetVibes homepage, which features all of my favorite feeds. This has certainly has increased efficiency, but it also seems to have increased my Internet browsing time. Even though I can now view more articles in less time, I find myself viewing more articles than I previously would have.
