If you’re using the Firefox browser, you already know that you can set the initial web sites that open when a new Firefox window is opened. My list is fairly short compared to most other junkies but here are my Home Page tabs in no particular order:
Google Mail
With +2.5gigs of email space, spam filtering and a great search engine, it is hard to find a better email client on the web. Ads are non-intrusive, text based and, although supposedly related to the email message content, can produce some pretty funny results.
Google Calendar
This junkie attempts to stay organized. A great web based calendar system, Google Calendar allows private and public calendars, individual rights and sharing, reminders and daily agenda emails, sends and tracks invitations and updates and is integrated with Googles other great web applications.
BoingBoing
As their logo states “A Directory of Wonderful Things”. A blog-type site where the editors choose user submitted news to post for their viewers.
Freshnews
A small collection of technology news site rss feeds. I may change to Bloglines in the near future, however I’m a bit undecided at the moment.
Digg
User submitted content that is voted to the front page by the user base digging the the submitted content or the content is buried without enough “diggs”.
Del.icio.us
A social network bookmark collection. The Del.icio.us front page presents recent and most popular bookmarks users are saving. Users also have the ability of storing their bookmarks on the Del.icio.us server, tagging them and searching for other bookmarks via common tags.
Instructables
A great How-To social network site. Users publish instructions on how to make things, can tag their instructions with keywords that are searchable and can be included in related groups.
Make Magazine
An excellent DIY magazine with many great projects. The web site continues the trend with a great blog of even more projects.
Flickr
A photo sharing web site that allows tagging, commenting, groups (public and private) and discussions all for free.
Frappr
A social network that allows the users to blog, upload photos, add friends, create groups and forums, and map friends or members of a group on a map.
YouTube
A video sharing web site, along the same lines of other social networking sites, allows users to upload and share videos, comment on videos, tag videos for similiar searchs, subscribe to user videos, create channels, etc.