Fav4.org Is a Dead Simple but Very Attractive Start Page

Attractive, yes. But why, exactly, is this better than my browser's bookmarks?

I love it. I think it's really great, and I'll tell you why.<p>First, simplicity. I think websites as a whole suffer from information overload and the simpler something is the easier it is to use, which makes it accessible to everyone.<p>Second, the design. Its great, why not have favourites as icons? Every website now has a logo which marks their brand, we've become accustomed to viewing them everywhere so its easy enough to look at it and know exactly what it is. Its brilliant, visual and the kind of steps others should be taking in terms of UX.<p>Third, its on the web. Safari, firefox and chrome start pages are in your local browser, but we dont all use the same machine everyday do we? I switch between 2 or 3 as I'm at work, then at home or at a friends.<p>My only thought would be, I want to see more than 4 icons without ruining the visual. If you can achieve that then I'm sold.

I think this is what Favorites/welcome page of a browser should look like.

I get excited by these services (iGoogle, Netvibes) and end-up using them for about a week before defaulting back to google's homepage. Love Fav4's design though!

Looks beautiful, but I don't see a Hacker News icon anywhere in their list of available sites.

I use <a href="http://start.io" rel="nofollow">http://start.io</a> for the same service.<p>It's as simple and attractive, but I can add more links and very basically organize them.

Looks nice, and would probably be a great recommendation to relatives or friends.<p>On a site such as "hacker news", where the majority of users would be fast-typing power users, I think we would prefer to stick to our blank homepage and type what we need in the address bar.<p>Personally, I use the bookmarks toolbar in forefox / ie for my top 4 links.

Looks like a web version of Safari's Top Site. Except Top Site is a grid. You can place favs in to a particular square, but recent websites you visit a lot will show up automatically on available squares.<p>Hmm, actually a social version of this might be very interesting. Based on your fav sites, other popular fav sites will be recommended to you.

Hm. I prefer the google chrome homepage to this. It is also simple and displays the sites it <i>knows</i> you visit regularly.

Made something like this before but never made it public, though mine looks more like the iPhone home screen.

I was thinking of something like this when the Facebook login story on RWW came out a week or two ago. With a start page that looks like an [iPhone|Android|your favorite device] screen , there's less risks of being confused.

It's funny because three out of four are completely or partially blocked in China.

Fav4.org is nice, but I agree - a bit to simple. There is an alternative - zenstart. It has a Goolge seach box and the 150 most popular links: www.zenstart.com

I prefer the chrome homepage like many others have said. Not really sure how useful this really is.

That is: <a href="http://www.zenstart.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.zenstart.com</a>

Looks nice, but why do I <i>have</i> to choose 4?

The difference between "simple" and "trivial" is functionality. Unlike the Safari/Chrome/Opera startpages, this is utterly, utterly useless.

gorgeous! i want this for 5 rss feeds.