I like the idea of customisable start pages which is basically what allmyfaves and 43marks are.
Previously I'd toyed with allmyfaves, netvibes, pageflakes, clutterme, and mysurfpad before deciding on mysurfpad.
What I liked about mysurfpad was the clean lines and the way I could customise to suit me. Having said that though I tend to have my 'must check' sites as home pages (tabs) in my browsers.
I've blogged previously about my own version of browser wars - when I log onto the web I open:
IE7: (home tabs - gmail, my website, yahoomail, hotmail, blog 1)
Firefox: (home tabs - bloglines, twitter, facebook, gmail, my website blog 2,)
Flock: (home tabs - my surfpad, gmail, blog 3, blog 4, webmail)
These are the websites I use regularly - and I have other favourite websites set up in mysurfpad so that I have minimal clicking to get to where I want to go.
I'd looked at allmyfaves previously - I didn't really like it as it didn't suit my style of working. It seemed way too cluttered to my eye and I found it quite busy & distracting. I would/could use it for one-off search categories although it is very US based (which could be good or bad depending). I'm sure it did everything I would want it too but I just didn't take to it (personal taste I guess).
43marks was new to me but after looking at it for this exercise I think I will stick with mysurfpad.
43marks is basically lists of bookmarks that you can customise - I didn't mind the look and feel of it and might have been tempted to use it had I not already found mysurfpad.
Sites I haven't used before.
Under shopping I had a look at shopzilla which is a US based shopping comparison site - having seen a Halloween party today I looked at Halloween costumes - couldn't decide between wonder woman or catwoman.
Under dating I looked at plenty of fish - before I even needed to register it had produced a list of men (and women) either in Australia or looking for Australians to meet.
I think maybe a novice user might find this extremely useful mainly because of the exisiting categories which give a very good indication of the sorts of lists you can create/personalise.
Once again I have nothing against 43marks - I just didn't like it enough to switch to it instead of mysurfpad.
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mysurfpad looks pretty cool, i think 43marks is better though, simply b/c you do not have to log in to view your customized bookmarks. I read somewhere that they are going to add widgets similar to igoogle soon. I think then it is surley superior
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