Lots and lots of users weighed in with their thoughts on iGoogle's demise and their own suggestions for alternatives -- which led me to post about a week later.

That entry drew a lot of discussion as well, though the overall consensus among users is that there's nothing out there that really matches the simple, understated appeal of iGoogle.

Maybe now there is: that bears more than a passing resemblance to early-day iGoogle.

In other words, it's a home page you can customize with a variety of feeds and gadgets, arranging them all to your liking. You might have a news window here, a weather update there, a clock, a blog feed, and so on.

Developer Mike Sutton says his goal was "to create a site that looked and worked like iGoogle as much as possible to make the transition easy for users."