An online notebook
Google have added a directory of possible services to their personal homepage, as announced on their official blog.
It provides a much wider variety of easy-to-add content than before, but doesn’t stop the homepage being a pretty static and dull affair compared to the likes of Protopage and Netvibes. You also have to be logged in to use it, meaning any searches you perform will be saved in the search history, which could be a little creepy.
Eponym is a new hosted blog service, and a direct competitor with Blogger. It’s nice and easy to use, and it’s really quick to set up a new blog – like I did (check out that nice Slashdot-esque theme).
My one criticism would be that the Control Panel page is a little cluttered – I think they should have ditched the top header, really.
But it seems quicker than Blogger, and is bound to be with fewer users, so for absolute beginners it’s worth a shot.
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As spotted by Google Blogoscoped, this is from a CSS comment on Microsoft’s website:
/* fix for the IE 1px-off margin error */
* html .StupidIEMarginHack
{
margin-right: 1px;
}