In our ongoing coverage of Microsoft's Live
initiative, today we'd like to highlight the Windows Live personalized homepage, simply named Live. As far as personalized homepages go, Live has most of the features you'd expect - News, RSS feeds and "gadgets", consisting of Mail, Stock Quotes, Weather Forecasts, Horoscopes, Ticking Clock, Quote of the Day, Shopping, and Safety Center. It's all presented it in a very low-key, uncluttered fashion. The site is very "Web 2.0", with AJAX (or a reasonable facsimile) allowing for the gadgets to be dragged and dropped around the screen, and the page can be switched from 1 to 4 columns as well as allowing for the color scheme to be subtly changed. Live.com also has a thriving community with over 150 user-built Gadgets that can be added to your Live homepage.
