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There are few websites out there that could claim your point of entry to the web - that all important default home page. The BBC is taking a step in the right direction this week, with a little help with some AJAX, to allow you to customize your own BBC home page.

It’s a big step and an important one for the British Broadcasters and I am sure they will get some converts. I am a big fan of the BBC and think I get excellent value for my licence fee (feel free to throw tomatoes at me). They won’t convince me to change my home page though as it doesn’t give me enough immediate access to the web - I still need Google.

With this move though, they could allow widgets for even more customization in the future.

So, although I won’t shift from my iGoogle page, I will be moving things around on my very own BBC homepage for those visits I do make.

They’ve even got it to validate. Makes me want to stick my chest out.