pageflake

http://www.pageflakes.com/


Its a customizable webpage (homepage), basically letting you add data sources for video, news, etc.
I think lots of places have this , the first I saw was yahoo, but most of the content was proprietary yahoo stuff. Then google had its homepage, with more "outsourced" material. With RSS feeds now, I think this is pretty much how web users will start their web experiences more and more. Though I personally like a basic browser (bing or google) as a start page. It just seems more limitless ....and thats the way most people probably see the web.

So I can see the practicality of having a personalized home webpage to be able to get all your news sources without having to check individual webpages though.
You can set pageflakes for major cities, though I think google is a better service for this.