Startpages are the only way to keep in touch with web flow. Everybody knows iGoogle or Yahoo!reader but in France, a few people thinks we need alternatives.

Netvibes is the famous one, created by Tariq Krim in 2005 (who leaved the lead 2 weeks ago) it permits anyone to concentrate mail, meteo, news and a lot of cool 2.0 services (flickR/twitter…). Netvibes Ginger, the last release offers “Univers” to users who can create a public page and add a basic social network into it. The future of netvibes is based on widget and a new Open source project called netvibes.org.

Webwag was launch a few month after Netvibes, founded by Franck Poisson, this startpage is a bit easier to use. The major axis for the future of webwag is a mobile application based on JAVA and un really smart version for iPhone.

At least, Orange Labs lauched Bubbletop, another startpage, wich run both online and on mobile phones with a social network which really easly permits to share news and infos.

In Europe, we also had Pageflakes founded in 2005 in Germany have been acquired by LiveUniverse in April.