Your Startpage should be yours, not some random collection of words and images some design or programming department has chosen for you. What do they know about you anyway, really? We at start.me are stern believers in the right to personalize the things you look at all day and every day. That’s why we’re proud…
It’s almost mid-March, but it feels like deep December outside. The northeast U.S. is bracing for its third nor’easter in as many weeks – this one is predicted to bring at least 10 inches of snow. It’s time to plan a vacation to the sun!
Yes, it’s International Women’s Day. You really couldn’t have missed it. If you open Google, it’s right there on the homepage. If you watch a video on Youtube, you see the little logo in the left-hand corner. Even if your mother, your sister or another woman in your life hasn’t reminded you to bring them some…
Most people spend their fair share of time researching sources on the net in one particular niche. Usually, they don’t use cool widgets. Still, often they’ll need to return to specific sources again and again. Yet it may be challenging remembering where you saw that great tidbit of information, so next week you must do yet…
One of the hidden talents of start.me is our knowledge of useful websites, for example about building websites. With no less than 650.000 active users and over 30 million visits a month, this comes as no surprise. Our users point us to sites you may have missed. Find them all in our section called ‘Discover‘. Did…
Some weeks ago we published about the new Dark widget theme we added. It is being used by thousands of users already. Today we released a new (mini)feature that makes embedding content in dark themed widgets more attractive. Not all embeddable content supports a dark theme and we found a way to ‘solve’ that.
There are many features to start.me most users don’t know about. And that’s fine: that leaves something to be discovered. Today I will start a series of blogs about one of these ‘hidden’ features: Markdown. This easy to learn markup language is supported by start.me and allows you to add some extra style to your…
Assorted tales of an information hoarder. The first time I decided it would be a good idea to organize my life, I didn’t know anything about bookmark managers. In fact, they didn’t even exist, back then. I suppose there was no Internet available yet, not for non-techies like me. But there were those sturdy binders…
Guest blogger Robin Singh is an expert in Knowledge Management. In this post, he discusses several smart ways social bookmarking for business can make life easier for everyone. In business today, the competitive pressure and customer demands are increasingly forcing organizations to step up their game. Most service companies are using mobility and cost-cutting to…
Last week the Dutch Jaarbeurs opened its doors to IPON 2018, the ninth bi-annual exposition dedicated to educational innovation and ICT. Because a lot of educators use start.me, we felt we had to make an appearance. The exhibit addressed ICT professionals and teachers on every level. The theme of this edition was ’21th-century skills’, so we felt right…
