[jwarzech]

Full disclosure I'm the founder of this product (hey its hacker news) but a lot of people have been using http://backstit.ch as an alternative rather than a direct replacement for iGoogle (and google reader).

Rather than just show snippets from different sites we analyze the content so you can easily filter or even create automatically curated pages around your favorite topics.

You can check out a topic page without signing up here: http://backstit.ch/topics/117/TrackingFukushimaDisaster

[prostoalex]

I don't like the "river of news, most current at the top" UI, but I did use iGoogle's "bunch of boxes with headlines, spread around in a bunch of columns" approach, do you guys have that as an option? Looks more like Google Reader replacement than iGoogle.