There was quite a list of Web 2.0-ish homepage & portal offerings on Techcrunch’s This Week’s New Ajax Homepage today. Some I’d seen before, several were new to me. All of them made me yawn…

We don’t need more homepages or portals and ways to aggregate stuff that we each can point at ourselves. There are plenty of options for that and most are woefully inadequate.

An article today in the BBC News pointed out a Pew Internet study which shows, “The internet has played an important role in the life decisions of 60 million Americans, research shows.

Whether it be career advice, helping people through an illness or finding a new house, 45% of Americans turn to the web for help, a survey by US-based Pew Internet think-tank has found.”

People are on the hunt. They want information. They want expertise. They need filtering by experts and their peers. They can’t invest most of their attention and time trying to find it.

There’s got to be a better way.

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