Comments on: Need an alternative to MyHQ for my homepage(s).

Question: Need an alternative to MyHQ for my homepage(s).

iamkimiam — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:30:17 -0800

Need to find an alternative to MyHQ.com. MyHQ is a web-based homepage that is simply lists of links that you can add to, customize, and organize into categories. You set it as your homepage, and voila!, every place you regularly visit on the internet is right in front of you. Their site is currently down, which has happened before, but this time I fear its for reals. I am literally lost without it (not to mention the 100+ organized links that I no longer have access to).

This is different from social bookmarking (please do not recommend delicious.com; its a wonderful site, but won't suffice for this purpose). This would be like if you had access to your computer's bookmarks list as a homepage, from any computer, anywhere. There has GOT to be another website that is comparable to MyHQ. Anybody know what that is?

Thanks. I'm staring at the blank browser window and am completely clueless without my handy homepage! (I actually had to TYPE "ask.metafilter.com" into the URL bar...oh, the horror!)

By: Class Goat

Class Goat — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:49:31 -0800

You can do that with a local file on your computer. You don't need a web site for it. Edit the local file with your HTML WYSIWYG editor of choice.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:58:20 -0800

Thanks, but I need to be able to get to the page from any computer and any browser, easily. In the past, I would just go to "www.myhq.com/my_username"

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:05:36 -0800

Firefox 2.0 and the myportal extension will do this.

Unfortunately, the extension is not being updated for 3.0. That said, I'm sure Google Chrome will have a whole mess of add-ons for it soon.

By: Class Goat

Class Goat — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:18:45 -0800

I need to be able to get to the page from any computer and any browser, easily.

That's why God gave us USB Flash drives.

By: iamabot

iamabot — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:26:54 -0800

Maybe de.lic.io.us ?

I use netvibes.com for rss aggregation, but you can use it for non rss feeds as well.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:30:56 -0800

There is a bookmarks module for iGoogle, if you want to set up a google account as your homepage. Accessible from anywhere, customisable.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:34:09 -0800

A similar service is protopage.

By: sambosambo

sambosambo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:37:10 -0800

Thinking outside the box here: Go out and get a USB flash drive. They're small, cheap and if you hop around computers, they're pretty handy to have around. There are a load of portable apps available, including Firefox so you wouldn't have to worry about finding a new website to hold all your bookmarks because they're already in the palm of your hand!

Aside from that option, I second utilizing Google bookmarks and iGoogle.

By: scruss

scruss — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:37:08 -0800

(myhq.com is alive and well for me)

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:38:14 -0800

I would use delicious for this, too.

By: kattyann

kattyann — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:16:13 -0800

At the risk of getting mocked unmercifully, I use google homepage for this...the google bookmark add-on.

By: willmize

willmize — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:34:00 -0800

I know you're not a delicious fan, but I really do recommend Firefox and the Delicious Plug In for always accessible bookmarks.
I label them how I want, irregardless of how they are 'socially' marked and also click "Do Not Share" for anything I, um, don't want to share.
This works brilliantly for me, as I have a PC at work and a mac at home and never have to worry about reminding myself to look at something when I get home.

By: shownomercy

shownomercy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:44:10 -0800

Netvibes is pretty neat, more RSS based, maybe that is what you are looking for? It's been around for a while and while I no longer use it (I don't need anymore distractions than I can provide myself without thinking ... ) it still has all my (mostly dead) feeds from a few years ago saved and organized how I had them set up.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:17:08 -0800

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE delicious, but it simply does not work for this purpose (the links aren't easily accessible and customizable/organizable...see screenshot link in next sentence for idea of what I'm seeking).

Now that MyHQ is back up and running, here's a screenshot of my desktop—I am looking for a web app that is comparable to this (as you can see, I've got hundreds of bookmarks, and since I'm constantly changing them a flash drive would be a pain for syncing).

I think that ProtoPage and Google Homepage will both make fine backup plans for the next time MyHQ goes down. Thanks!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:20:32 -0800

er, I meant "a screenshot of my homepage"

By: katrielalex

katrielalex — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:42:12 -0800

Foxmarks is quite like what you are looking for -- it's a bookmark synchronization tool but if you use the Foxmarks server you can connect to it at my.foxmarks.com and read your bookmarks from anyway. The interface isn't as clean as your screenshot but it's not too bad.

It's also really really convenient if you bookmarks stuff from more than one computer.

By: SheIsMighty

SheIsMighty — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:39:18 -0800

I think Protopage is exactly what you're looking for.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:51:19 -0800

Have you thought about having a personal wiki?

By: tractorfeed

tractorfeed — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:00:01 -0800

Seconding (or whatever) iGoogle. You can de-theme-ify it and just add your feeds to the page, even "drag and drop" arrange them (on the right browser). You should be able to get just what you had on myHQ, according to your screenshot.