-Mail.app for email
-Rememberthemilk.com for my to-do-list items
-basecamp for team collaboration
-backpack for little temporary projects
-newsfire for reading rss
-ical for my appointments
-address book for contacts + “mailboxer” plugin to setup smart lists for all my content

That’s pretty much it!

1) They haven’t really promoted it a lot
2) They have hundreds of products on the go now and it often would be hard to manage time and resource effectively on one single one compared with a start-up
3) They were later in the market
4) I’m sure they are trying to think of how advertising would work on a personalised start-up experience to see if they can make money from the thing / encourage take-up of their other products through it.

So if most people use Netvibes, then Pageflakes, then things like i-google, myAOL and they all have a big fight to get the most users. Question is then what? Also – how to go mass market with something like that.. very hard.

From a personal perspective I stop using them a few months back as I can use other tools to achieve the same effect and I do already suffer from “Information Overload” that you mentioned in your post about facebook!

Maybe someone should start web2.0 PA’s!

Thanks for your comment that confirms what I said about Chappaz
(http://netviber.blogspot.com/2007/07/pierre-chappaz-co-ceo-quits-netvibes.html)

I wanted to know your opinion on: ” Why iGoogle is so unattractive at the moment?” and therefore opens the way to independent personalised start-up pages like Netvibes.

1) Google does not think that there is a market in start pages
2) They just wait and see and buy the best
3) They are not able to do it better
4) They are afraid to spoil their other established revenues
…