I started off liking Google personal home page. It's neat. You can load RSS feeds and have your gmail account right there. Gmail is the best webmail client I have ever used, though Yahoo Mail Beta comes in a pretty good second.
When live.com came out, I dismissed it. Would it conform with web standards? Would it work on non-Microsoft browsers? The answer to both these questions is yes. Further, live.com performs much better with individual blogs than google.
To see this, look at the following two screen grabs.
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The one on the left is google personal home page and on the right live.com. Literally fifty percent of the time, google personal home page fails to fetch the individual feeds that show up in live.com almost without a hitch.
In my blogging bootcamps, I like to recommend a portal-like feedreader to start. These days, I'm recommending live.com.
'Gmail is the best webmail client I have ever used'.
Interesting comment. I find myself using it more than anything else (web mail clients), despite its clumsy interface. Is it the idea of using labels rather than folders? A seemingly limitless available space? Spam filtering that actually works pretty well?
Now, if it had an interface more like the current Yahoo beta...
I think it is the spam blocking. I'm amazed at how effective it is relative to any other email system I have. I also like the way it gathers things in conversations. That can be useful for review. Search is the final feature. It's just superior.